Exodus 18:10 - Exposition

Blessed be the Lord . Compare Genesis 14:20 ; Genesis 24:27 . The heathen blessed God no loss than the Israelites; but Jethro's blessing the Lord ( i.e. Jehovah) is unusual As, however, Moses had attributed his own deliverance, and that of Israel, entirely to Jehovah ( Genesis 24:8 ), Jethro, accepting the facts to be as stated, blessed the Lord. Who hath delivered you . Kalisch takes the plural pronoun to refer to Moses and Aaron; but Aaron seems not to nave been present, since he afterwards "came" ( Genesis 24:12 ). It is better to regard Jethro as addressing all those who were in the tent with Moses. From them he goes on in the last clause to "the people." And out of the hand of Pharaoh.— i.e; especially out of the hand of Pharaoh, who had especially sought their destruction ( Exodus 14:6 , Exodus 14:8 , etc.).