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 deliverance. They were grieved, through envy and fear.
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
_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....
1:12 distressed (c-16) The word implies fear and aversion....
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...
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...
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...
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...
וְ כַ אֲשֶׁר֙ יְעַנּ֣וּ אֹתֹ֔ו כֵּ֥ן יִרְבֶּ֖
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
_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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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 dest...
PHARAOH PLANS TO CURB THE GROWTH...
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...
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...
BUT THE MORE THEY AFFLICTED THEM, THE MORE THEY MULTIPLIED: _ Heb._ and as they afflicted them, so they multiplied, etc...
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...
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...
Exodus 1:12 afflicted H6031 (H8762) more H3651 multiplied H7235 (H8799) grew H6555 (H8799) dread H6973 ...
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...
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...
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 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...
EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 1:1 Exodus 1:1 of Israel from Egypt. The first half of Exodus 1:1 focuses on the
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...
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...
but the more. Heb. and as they afflicted them, so they Psalms 105:24 Proverbs 21:30 Romans 8:28 Hebrews 12:6 grieved....
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...
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...