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Exodus 3:6

Moreover, He said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. This was the formal declaration of majesty and power. Where deliverance, salvation, is required, there the Angel of the Lord, Jehovah, the mighty God Himself, must come to the rescue of weak and sinful men. But where God is present and visits His children in mercy, there the safety of all those that put their trust in Him is assured. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God. Sinful man cannot endure the sight of the holy God, and the eye is naturally overcome by the splendor which reflects the glory of the Lord.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Exodus 3:6. _I_ AM _THE GOD OF THY FATHER_] Though the word אבי _abi, father_, is here used in the singular, St Stephen, quoting this place, Acts 7:32, uses the plural, Ὁ Θεος των πατερων σου,...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Our Saviour adduces this passage as a proof that the doctrine of the Resurrection was taught in the Old Testament Matthew 22:32, and He calls this book “the Book of Moses” Mark 12:26, two points to be...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 3 THE BURNING BUSH AND THE CALL AND COMMISSION OF MOSES _ 1. The vision of the burning bush (Exodus 3:1)_ 2. Jehovah speaks and calls Moses (Exodus 3:4) 3. Moses' answer (Exodus 3:11) 4. T...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EXODUS 2:23 TO EXODUS 3:15. THE CALL OF MOSES ( FIRST ACCOUNT). Exodus 2:23_ a_, J, Exodus 2:23 _b_ -...

  • B. W. Johnson's Bible Commentary

    AM THE GOD OF THY FATHER. The term father seems to be used collectively for the forefathers of Moses. THE GOD OF ABRAHAM. God who had revealed himself to the old patriarchs and entered into covenan...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    I. Pronoun emphatic. GOD _= 'Elohim,_ the Creator. Note the five-fold repetition. (App-10). Christ founds the doctrine of Resurrection on this verse. See note on Matthew 22:31; Matthew 22:32. AFRAID....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Exodus 3:1 TO EXODUS 4:17. Moses commissioned by Jehovah at Horeb to deliver His people. The dialogue between Jehovah and Moses, as in other cases (cf. Delitzsch on Genesis 12:1), must be pictured, no...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THE GOD OF THY FATHER— In Acts 7:32 it is _the God of thy fathers;_ which the following words prove to be the true meaning. Moses, terrified at the Divine appearance, hid his face: for what sinful mor...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 3 Now Mo-ses was keeping the flock of Je-thro his father-in-law, the priest of Mid-i-an: and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to the mountain of...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _MOREOVER HE SAID, I AM THE GOD OF THY FATHER, THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB. AND MOSES HID HIS FACE; FOR HE WAS AFRAID TO LOOK UPON GOD._ I am the God of thy father. The...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE CALL OF MOSES AND HIS COMMISSION TO BE THE DELIVERER OF ISRAEL 1. Horeb] The names Horeb and Sinai seem to be synonymous, though it has been suggested that Horeb is the name given to the entire mo...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    The patriarchs are mentioned to show that it is no new or unknown God who speaks, but One who made a covenant with the fathers of the nation and who still remembers it. These words are cited by our Lo...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE GOD OF THY FATHER. — It is generally agreed that “father” is put collectively here for “forefathers.” (Comp. Genesis 31:42.) Hence St. Stephen, quoting the passage, renders it, “I am the God of th...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֗אמֶר אָנֹכִי֙ אֱלֹהֵ֣י אָבִ֔יךָ אֱלֹהֵ֧י...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    GOD'S MESSAGE FROM THE BUSH Exodus 3:1 The learning of Egypt was not sufficient to equip Moses for his life-work. He is taken to the solitudes of the wilderness. _That_ is God's college. All who have...

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

    At last the actual call of God came to Moses. It found him fulfilling a daily duty, keeping the sheep of his father-in-law. There can be no doubt that in the silent solitudes of the wilderness he had...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Moreover he said, I [am] the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was (g) afraid to look upon God. (g) For sin causes man to f...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Hid, out of respect, and perhaps fearing lest he should die, Genesis xvi. 13. (Calmet) --- God takes the title of these three patriarchs, because he had promised Chanaan to each of them, and because...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    By the Lord's keeping up this character respecting Abraham, is meant that he is God in a covenant way. See Exodus 3:15.Genesis 17:7. Pause again here and contemplate the tender mercies of the Lord. Ab...

  • 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

    6._I am the God of thy father. _He does not merely proclaim himself as some heavenly power, nor claim for himself only the general name of God, but recalling to memory his covenant formerly made with...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    But at last God looks upon His people, and not only gives the faith that identifies itself with His people, but displays the power which delivers them. That Moses, who was rejected as a prince and a j...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    MOREOVER HE SAID, I AM THE GOD OF THY FATHERS,.... Of every one of his fathers next mentioned: THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB; with whom the covenant respecting the land o...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Moreover he said, I [am] the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God. Ver. 6. _Hid his face._] So did...

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

    _I am_, &c. He lets him know it is God that speaks to him, to engage his reverence, faith, and obedience. _The God of thy father_ Thy pious father Amram, and the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, thy...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Moses keepeth Iethros flocke. 2 God appeareth to him in a burning bush. 9 He sendeth him to deliuer Israel. 14 The name of God. 15 His message to Israel. 1 NOWE Moses kept the flocke of Iethro...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    C. THE CALL OF MOSES. HIS REFUSAL AND OBEDIENCE. HIS ASSOCIATION WITH AARON AND THEIR FIRST MISSION TO THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL Exodus 2:3 1Now Moses kept [was pasturing] the flock of Jethro his father-i...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    THE BURNING BUSH: MOSES CALLED TO EGYPT In tending Jethro's sheep Moses came to Mount Horeb, called "the mountain of God," because it signified Israel's relationship with God as under law. It is also...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-6 The years of the life of Moses are divided into three forties; the first forty he spent as a prince in Pharaoh's court, the second as a shepherd in Midian, the third as a king in Jeshurun. How ch...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE GOD OF THY FATHERS, engaged to them by covenant or promise, which I am now come to perform. HE WAS AFRAID TO LOOK UPON GOD, as other excellent servants of God have been, through the sense of their...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    We shall now resume the personal history of Moses, and contemplate him during that deeply-interesting period of his career which he spent in retirement-a period including, as we should say, forty of h...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Exodus 3:6 said H559 (H8799) God H430 God H430 Abraham H85 God H430 Isaac H3327 God H430 Jacob H

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    HE REVEALS HIMSELF AS YAHWEH, THE GOD OF THEIR FATHERS WITH THE PROMISE OF DELIVERANCE (EXODUS 3:6). a Yahweh declares that He is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Exodus 3:6 a). b Moses hides hi...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Exodus 3:2 I. The vision. (1) The vision was miraculous. (2) Moses had this vision when he was in solitude. (3) It was symbolic (_a_) of Israel in Egypt; (_b_) of the Church in the world; (c) of the...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Exodus 3:1 This narrative is a chain of glorious wonders. We see here I. An old man called to go out on the great errand of his life. The education of Moses for the great mission of his life lasted...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Exodus 3:1. _Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb._ It must h...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    This chapter tells of the appearance of God to Moses in the Wilderness. Has he removed from us brethren? He used to be seen by godly souls by mount and stream and sea; and even bushes were alive and b...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Moses called as deliverer. The burning bush. CHARACTERS: Jethro, Moses, angel. CONCLUSION: Those qualified for great service may expect for a time to be confined to obscurity for special p...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Exodus 3:1. _Horeb_ and Sinai are the same mountain, almost surrounded by two branches of the Red sea. But it has two summits, Sinai on the east, and Horeb on the west. Justinian built a monastery her...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _A flame of fire out of the midst of a bush._ MOSES AT THE BURNING BUSH I. The story of Moses is the story, at first, of failure. Two great streams of influences moulded his life--the one drawn from...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _I am the God of thy father._ THE ANCESTRAL GOD OUR GOD This declaration was made in order to assure Moses that even in the present oppressed state of his nation in Egypt, the Most High had not forgo...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EXODUS 3:1 Call of Moses. These chapters focus primarily on the call of Moses at the burning bush (Exodus 3:1). They also cover Moses’ return from Midian to Egypt: the peaceful departure from Jethro ...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 3:6 Moses is a descendant of ABRAHAM and belongs to the people to whom God has pledged himself (see Exodus 2:23). Jesus quotes from this verse ...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 3:1_ MAN IN RELATION TO MYSTERY I. THAT SOMETIMES MEN MEET WITH MYSTERY IN THE PURSUIT OF THEIR DAILY CALLING. “Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro.” Very of...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    THE CALL AND MISSION OF MOSES. EXPOSITION EXODUS 3:1 THE MISSION OF MOSES. After forty years of monotonous pastoral life, affording abundant opportunity for meditation, and for spiritual communion...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    I am. Exodus 3:14 Exodus 3:15 Exodus 4:5 Exodus 29:45 Genesis 12:1...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    FAITH AS EXEMPLIFIED IN MOSES Selections from Exodus 3:1; Exodus 6:1; Exodus 7:1; Exodus 8:1;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    GOD REVEALS HIMSELF TO MOSES Exodus 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS As we enter the Scripture for today we find Moses eighty years of age. He had spent forty years in Egypt and forty years with Jethro, his...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    I am the God of thy father — He lets him know it is God that speaks to him, to engage his reverence, faith and obedience. Thy father, thy pious father Amram, and the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,...

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