Exodus 2:1, Moses is born, and in an ark cast into the flags; Exodus 2:5, He is found, and brought up by Pharaoh’s daughter; Exodus 2:7, who employs his mother to nurse him; Exodus 2:11, He slays an Egyptian; Exodus 2:13, He reproves an Hebrew; Exodus 2:15, He flees into Midian, and marries Zipporah; Exodus 2:22, Gershom is born; Exodus 2:23, God respects the Israelites’ cry.
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Exodus 2 — OverviewExodus 2 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThis chapter begins the story of Moses, that man of renown, famed for
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earth, and the most remarkable type of Christ, as a prophet, saviour,…Exodus 2 — OverviewExodus 2 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThis chapter relates the birth of Moses, and his preservation in an ark of bulrushes, Ex 2:1. His being found by Pharaoh's daughter, took up, and put out to nurse by her, and adopted for her son, Ex 2:4, some exploits…Exodus 2:1-4Exodus 2:1-4 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleMoses was a Levite, both by father and mother. Jacob left Levi under
marks of disgrace (Gen. xlix. 5); and yet, soon after, Moses appears a
descendant from him, that he might typify Christ, who came in the…Exodus 2:1Exodus 2:1 · The Pulpit CommentaryThere went a man. The Hebrew language is deficient in tenses, and cannot mark pluperfect time. The meaning is, that "a man of the house of Levi had gone, some time before, and taken to wife a daughter of Levi." Miriam…Exodus 2:1-2Exodus 2:1-2 · The Pulpit Commentary§ 1. The birth of Moses.
In the providence of God, great men are raised up from time to time, for the express object of working out his purposes. A great task is before them, but there is often nothing peculiar,…Exodus 2:1-9Exodus 2:1-9 · The Pulpit CommentaryThe infancy of Moses.
I. WE HAVE, IN THIS EXPERIENCE OF THE INFANT AND HIS MOTHER, A MOST AFFECTING ILLUSTRATION OF THE MISERABLE STATE TO WHICH ISRAEL HAD BEEN REDUCED. We come down from the general statement of the…
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