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Exodus 1:12

But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. God spoiled the success of the Egyptians' plans by continuing to bless the Israelites in spite of all the measures intended to destroy their fruitfulness. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel. They were not merely disgusted at them, but they felt an increasing horror of the mysterious power that was aiding the children of Israel.

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See also Exodus 1:12 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Exodus 1:12. _BUT THE MORE THEY AFFLICTED THEM_] The margin has pretty nearly preserved the import of the original: _And as they_ _afflicted them, so they multiplied and so they grew_ That is, i...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. ISRAEL'S DELIVERANCE OUT OF THE HANDS OF THE EGYPTIANS 1. The House of Bondage CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The names of the children of Israel; their increase (Exodus 1:1)_ 2. The...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EXODUS 1:8 J, EXODUS 1:13 P, EXODUS 1:14 A ( TO FIELD) J, EXODUS 1:14 B P. REPRESSION OF ISRAEL. Forced labour was the first device fo

  • B. W. Johnson's Bible Commentary

    THE MORE THEY AFFLICTED THEM THE MORE THEY MULTIPLIED. The land of enemies and the scene of the most grinding oppression is easily rendered, in the providence of God,. nursery for the increase of his...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THE MORE THEY AFFLICTED THEM, &C.— The expression in the original is more energetic than any of the preceding in Exodus 1:7. יפרצ _iprotz,_ rendered _grew,_ signifies, properly, _to break forth, and e...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 1 Now these are the names of the sons of Is-ra-el, who came into E-gypt (every man and his household came with Jacob): (2) Reu-ben, Sim-e-on, Le-vi, and Ju-dah, (3) Is-s...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _BUT THE MORE THEY AFFLICTED THEM, THE MORE THEY MULTIPLIED AND GREW. AND THEY WERE GRIEVED BECAUSE OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:12 distressed (c-16) The word implies fear and aversion....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    OPPRESSION OF THE ISRAELITES 5. Seventy souls] Jacob himself is included in the number: cp. Genesis 46:8. Of the seventy, sixty-eight were males. If to the direct descendants of Jacob we add the wives...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE MORE THEY MULTIPLIED] The whole history of the exodus and sojourn in the wilderness is designed to show that nothing can destroy the people of Israel, or thwart the divine purpose with regard to t...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    EXODUS: ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION THE *ISRAELITES LEAVE EGYPT EXODUS CHAPTER S 1 TO 18 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ ABOUT THE BOOK OF EXODUS Exodus is one of the first 5 books of the *Old Testa...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE MORE THEY AFFLICTED THEM, THE MORE THEY MULTIPLIED AND GREW. — This result was not natural. It can only be ascribed to God’s superintending Providence, whereby “the fierceness of man” was made to...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ כַ אֲשֶׁר֙ יְעַנּ֣וּ אֹתֹ֔ו כֵּ֥ן יִרְבֶּ֖

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE OPPRESSION. Exodus 1:7. At the beginning of the history of Israel we find a prosperous race. It was indeed their growing importance, and chiefly their vast numerical increase, which excited the j...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL AFFLICTED Exodus 1:1 The buried seed began to bear an abundant harvest, notwithstanding the efforts of Pharaoh and his people. The kings of the earth take counsel together to...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The first word of Exodus, "Now," might with equal accuracy be rendered "And." Either word serves to suggest continuity. The story of Genesis is taken up in Exodus. It begins by recording the prolific...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And (e) they were grieved because of the children of Israel. (e) The more God blesses his own, the more the wicked envy them....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    What a blessed evidence this is of God's love to his people. And depend upon it, it is the same now! Every persecution, every scoff, every sneer of the infidel shall be blessed. And there is not a pai...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    There is hardly a book of the Old Testament that stands out in more decided contrast with the book of Genesis than the one which follows it most closely. And this is the more striking, because God emp...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _GROWTH UNDER THE KNIFE_ ‘The more they multiplied and grew.’ Exodus 1:12 I. THE INTENTION OF ISSUING NEW ORDERS AND DECREES FROM TIME TO TIME WAS THAT THE SPIRIT OF THE ISRAELITES MIGHT BE BROKEN....

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    12._But the more. _Moses relates the contest between the mercy of God and the cruelty of the king of Egypt. When, therefore, the wretched Israelites were tyrannically afflicted, he says that God came...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 AND 2. First, we have the historical circumstances which relate to the captivity of Israel-the persecutions which this people had to endure, and the provide...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BUT THE MORE THEY AFFLICTED THEM, THE MORE THEY MULTIPLIED AND GREW,.... Became more numerous, "and broke out" b, as it may be rendered, like water which breaks out and spreads itself; so the Israelit...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel. Ver. 12. _The more they multiplied._] As the ground is most fruitful that...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _The more they multiplied_ To the grief and vexation of the Egyptians. The original expression, rendered _grew_, is very emphatical, יפרצ _jiphrots._ They broke forth and _expanded themselves with im...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The children of Israel after Iosephs death do multiply. 8 The more they are oppressed by a new King, the more they multiply. 15 The godlines of the Midwiues, in sauing the men children aliue. 22...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    EXODUS THE SECOND BOOK OF MOSES (וְאֵלֶּה שְׁמוֹת; _Ἐξοδος: Exodus_) THE PROPHETICO-MESSIANIC THEOCRACY—OR THE GENESIS, REDEMPTION AND SANCTIFICATION OF THE COVENANT PEOPLE FIRST DIVISION: MOSES AN...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    ISRAEL MULTIPLIED (vs.1-7) The first five verses of Exodus indicate its continuity with the book of Genesis, for they confirm what is written in more detail in Genesis 46:8. This small number of 70 p...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    BUT THE MORE THEY AFFLICTED THEM, THE MORE THEY MULTIPLIED: _ Heb._ and as they afflicted them, so they multiplied, etc...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    8-14 The land of Egypt became to Israel a house of bondage. The place where we have been happy, may soon become the place of our affliction; and that may prove the greatest cross to us, of which we s...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THEY MULTIPLIED, through God's overruling providence and singular blessing, which God gave them purposely to hasten first their sorer affliction, and next, and by that means, their glorious deliveranc...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    We now approach, by the mercy of God, the study of the Book of Exodus, of which the great prominent theme is redemption. The first five verses recall to the mind the closing scenes of the preceding bo...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Exodus 1:12 afflicted H6031 (H8762) more H3651 multiplied H7235 (H8799) grew H6555 (H8799) dread H6973 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PEOPLE MULTIPLY AND ARE PUT TO HARD LABOUR (EXODUS 1:6). The careful patterning continues: a Joseph dies and all his generation (Exodus 1:6). b The children of Israel are fruitful and multiply...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Israel in Egypt and their bondage. CHARACTERS: Joseph, Pharaoh, Shiprah, Puah. CONCLUSION: God's providences may at times seem to thwart His promises that His peoples' faith may be tried a...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Exodus 1:1. _The children of Israel._ Some think we should read here, the sons of Israel. Paul, Galatians 4:3; Galatians 4:5, makes a distinction between children and sons, in the words νηπιοι and υιο...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The children of Israel were fruitful _ THE INCREASE OF THE CHURCH I. Notwithstanding the removal of its chief officer (Exodus 1:6). Joseph dead; his influence gone; his counsel inaccessible. To-day...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 1:1 Exodus 1:1 of Israel from Egypt. The first half of Exodus 1:1 focuses on the

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 1:11. Pithom] P. = “a narrow place:” a city of Lower Egypt, situated on the eastern bank of the Nile: Gr. _Patoumos_ (Gosenius). RAAMSES] Prob. = “son of the sun:” “should be l...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION EXODUS 1:7-2 Here the real narrative of Exodus begins. The history of the Israelites from and after the death of Joseph is entered on. The first point touched is THEIR RAPID MULTIPLICATION...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    but the more. Heb. and as they afflicted them, so they Psalms 105:24 Proverbs 21:30 Romans 8:28 Hebrews 12:6 grieved....

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    THE BIRTH AND YOUTH OF MOSES Exodus 1:1, _Exodus 1:22_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS By way of introduction, we wish to discuss the meaning of the word, "Exodus." The first Book of the Bible is Genesis; it is...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied — To the grief and vexation of the Egyptians. Times of affliction, have oft been the church's growing times: Christianity spread most when it...

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