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Exodus 1:7

And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them. The heaping of the expressions, five different terms being used to emphasize this point, indicates the extraordinary growth of the people, a factor brought about not only by natural fertility and the eagerness for children, but above all by the fulfillment of God's promise to all the patriarchs. They filled the entire land, particularly Goshen, so that the country swarmed with their numbers. God's promises never fail, and it is a matter of wisdom to trust in them with firm confidence.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Exodus 1:7. _THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE FRUITFUL_] פרו _paru_, a general term, signifying that they were like _healthy trees_, bringing forth an _abundance of fruit_. _AND INCREASED_] ישרץ _y...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    In no province does the population increase so rapidly as in that which was occupied by the Israelites. See the note at Genesis 47:6. At present it has more flocks and herds than any province in Egypt...

  • 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 1:1 TO EXODUS 12:36. ISRAEL IN EGYPT: I. INCREASE AND OPPRESSION. Exodus 1:1 P, Exodus 1:6 J,...

  • B. W. Johnson's Bible Commentary

    THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE FRUITFUL. The rapid growth of Israel into. nation is the fact of this paragraph. It is expressed, as usual, in Hebrew by. climax of verbs: _were fruitful_ is taken from the...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE FRUITFUL, &C.— A variety of terms, nearly synonimous, are used in this verse, to express the prodigious increase of the children of Israel; _with whom,_ says the sacred wri...

  • 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

    _AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE FRUITFUL, AND INCREASED ABUNDANTLY, AND MULTIPLIED, AND WAXED EXCEEDING MIGHTY; AND THE LAND WAS FILLED WITH THEM._ The children of Israel. The ethnic name of the des...

  • 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

    Observe the number of words denoting increase. The land is the land of Goshen in the Delta of the Nile....

  • 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 CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE FRUITFUL. — A _great_ multiplication is evidently intended. Egypt was a particularly healthy country, and both men and animals were abnormally prolific there. Grain was so...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וּ בְנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל פָּר֧וּ וַֽ יִּשְׁרְצ֛וּ...

  • 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...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    GOD IN HISTORY. Exodus 1:7. With the seventh verse, the new narrative, the course of events treated in the main body of this book, begins. And we are at once conscious of this vital difference betwe...

  • 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

    And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the (b) land was filled with them. (b) He means the country of Goshen....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Acts 7:17. It is worth the reader's serious remark, that the first half of the period of 430 years from Abraham's days when God promised the increase of his children, had produced only 70 souls. Where...

  • 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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    7._And the children of Israel were fruitful. _(8) To what an extent they increased Moses relates in the 12th chapter, viz., to the number of 600,000, besides women and children; which was certainly an...

  • 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

    AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE FRUITFUL,.... In their offspring; became like fruitful trees, as the word signifies: AND INCREASED ABUNDANTLY; like creeping things, or rather like fishes, which incre...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them. Ver. 7. _Increased abundantly._] Heb., Spawned, and...

  • Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

    Exo. 1:6, 7. "And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation; and the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty, and the la...

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

    _And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly_ Like fishes or insects, as one of the words here used signifies, and being generally healthful and strong, they _waxed exceeding mi...

  • 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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-7 During more than 200 years, while Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob lived at liberty, the Hebrews increased slowly; only about seventy persons went down into Egypt. There, in about the same number of year...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Here are many words, and some very emphatical, to express their incredible multiplication. They WAXED EXCEEDING MIGHTY; which may relate either to their numbers, which greatly added to their strength,...

  • 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 1:7 children H1121 Israel H3478 fruitful H6509 (H8804) abundantly H8317 (H8799) multiplied H7235 (H8799) exceedingl

  • 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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 1:7 The Hebrew phrase translated THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL is the same phrase as “the sons of Israel” in v. Exodus 1:1. Having mentioned the death of Joseph and all his

  • 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

    fruitful. Exodus 12:37 Genesis 1:20 Genesis 1:28 Genesis 9:1 Genesis 12:2...

  • 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

    And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly — Like fishes or insects, so that they multiplied; and being generally healthful and strong, they waxed exceeding mighty, so that the...

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