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Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Exodus 12:37-39

MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Exodus 12:37-39THE NOMINAL FOLLOWERS OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH; THE MOTIVES BY WHICH THEY ARE ACTUATED, AND THE PERPLEXITIES BY WHICH THEY ARE TESTEDThe children of Israel are now going out of Egypt, the land of bondage, freed by the remarkable interposition of Heaven. They were allowed to leave openly, being even thrust out by Pharaoh. They had not to go out by stealth. God does not encourage craft in His people; He renders it unnecessary, as He will give them... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Exodus 12:30-41

Exodus 12:30-41 (with Matthew 2:15 ) I. We cannot treat the Exodus as an isolated fact in history. Egypt is the type of the cunning, careless, wanton world, out of which in all ages God is calling His sons. The Exodus remained a living fact in history. The infant Jesus went down into Egypt, as the infant Israel went down, not to repeat the Exodus, but to illume afresh its fading lines. (1) The children of Israel were an elect race, because they were of the seed of Abraham: that constituted... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Exodus 12:1-51

Chapter 12The Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you ( Exodus 12:1-2 ).Now in a few weeks the Jews are gonna be celebrating New Year's, Rosh Hashana. How come they're celebrating New Year's now, if this month April was to be the first month of the year? Well, they have a religious calendar. Their religious year begins in April. Then they have just the regular year by which... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 12:1-51

Exodus 12:2. The first month of the year. This is called Abib, Exodus 13:4; and Nisan, Esther 3:7. It was before the seventh month, hence the earth is supposed to have been created in September; but now in commemoration of their deliverance from Egypt, the ecclesiastical table which regulated the festivals, was ordered to begin with Abib. Many nations have reckoned their existence from some important era in their history: and in this view it was highly proper for the christian church to... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Exodus 12:37-39

Exodus 12:37-39Journeyed from Rameses.The setting forth of the Israelites from Egypt1. The sons of Israel, or Church of God, are in a moving state below.2. From countries and cities with habitations, God leads His people sometimes to pitch in booths.3. The number of the seed of God’s visible Church is great and multiplied according to His word.4. Men, women, and children, God numbers with His Church or Israel (Exodus 12:37).5. Providence so ordering, all sorts of people may join themselves to... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Exodus 12:37

Exo 12:37 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot [that were] men, beside children. Ver. 37. About six hundred thousand. ] So that promise to Abraham was fulfilled, in Genesis 15:14 ; and that to Jacob, in Genesis 46:3 . read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Exodus 12:37

the children: Numbers 33:3, Numbers 33:5 Rameses: Exodus 1:11, Genesis 47:11 six hundred: Exodus 38:26, Genesis 12:2, Genesis 15:5, Genesis 46:3, Numbers 1:46, Numbers 11:21 Reciprocal: Genesis 33:17 - Succoth Exodus 1:7 - fruitful Numbers 2:32 - General Numbers 26:65 - They shall Numbers 33:1 - with their armies Deuteronomy 1:10 - your God Deuteronomy 26:8 - the Lord Joshua 24:6 - I brought Psalms 105:24 - made Jeremiah 31:2 - The people Ezekiel 16:7 - caused Hebrews 11:27 - he forsook read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Exodus 12:37

And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.About six hundred thousand men — The word means strong and able men fit for wars, beside women and children, which we cannot suppose to make less than twelve hundred thousand more. What a vast increase was this to arise from seventy souls, in little more than two hundred years. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 12:37

THE EXODE, Exodus 12:37-42. 37. From Rameses to Succoth Probably not the treasure-city Rameses, or Raamses, mentioned Exodus 1:11, but the district or province spoken of Genesis 47:11, which is the same as Goshen, the border-land, of Egypt toward Palestine . From all parts of the province they started, the families and tribes gradually gathering, concentrating in and around Succoth at the end of the first day . The name Succoth, which signifies booths, indicates that this was a mere... read more