Exodus 18:4

4. Eliezer Here for the first time mentioned by name, but both sons are referred to in Exodus 4:20, and it is supposed that this younger son was the one circumcised by the way, (Exodus 4:25. ) The name means, my God is a help, and was given either in remembrance of Moses’s past deliverance from the sword of Pharaoh, or as expressing his hope for the future . The fear of execution as one guilty of blood, and the purpose of Pharaoh to slay him, were the cause of his flight from Egypt, (Exodus 2:15.) The same old fear may have arisen at the thought of his returning, and if Eliezer were born about that time there would have been a special appropriateness in the name. We should then render: and he will deliver me, etc.