Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Exodus 1:9
This was not a true, but an invidious representation and aggravation of the matter, the better to justify the sororities which he designed.
This was not a true, but an invidious representation and aggravation of the matter, the better to justify the sororities which he designed.
Verse Exodus 1:9. _HE SAID UNTO HIS PEOPLE_] He probably summoned a council of his nobles and elders to consider the subject; and the result was to persecute and destroy them, as is afterwards stated....
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
HE SAID UNTO HIS PEOPLE. He probably summoned. council of his chief supporters, nobles and elders, communicated his views and secured their ratification of the policy he proposed. Brought up in Upper...
HE SAID UNTO HIS PEOPLE, &C.— i.e. to his council, composed of the principal people of his land. We must either understand the king here in an hyperbolical sense, or as uttering the language of fear,...
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...
_AND HE SAID UNTO HIS PEOPLE, BEHOLD, THE PEOPLE OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL ARE MORE AND MIGHTIER THAN WE:_ Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we. Let the Hebrews...
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...
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...
HE SAID UNTO HIS PEOPLE. — It is not intended to represent the Egyptian monarch as summoning a popular assembly, and addressing it. “His people.” Is antithetical to “the people of the children of Isra...
וַ יֹּ֖אמֶר אֶל ־עַמֹּ֑ו הִנֵּ֗ה עַ֚ם בְּנֵ֣י
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...
Numerous. Calvisius observes, that from Ephraim alone might have sprung 4,112,323,729 people. See St. Augustine, q. 43, &c. (Haydock) --- In the space of 215 years, 70 people may produce an immense mu...
Is it not worthy remark, that the enmity of the world against the people of God, however variously manifested, is always the same. Reader! do not lose sight of what God said at the fall: I will put en...
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...
9._And he said unto his people. _That is to say, in a public assembly, such as kings are wont to hold for consultation on public affairs. As if Moses had said that this point was proposed by the king...
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...
AND HE SAID UNTO HIS PEOPLE,.... His princes, nobles, and courtiers about him, his principal ministers of state: BEHOLD, THE PEOPLE OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL ARE MORE AND MIGHTIER THAN WE: which coul...
And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel [are] more and mightier than we: Ver. 9. _More and mightier._] He speaks as if he had looked through a multiplying glass. _Se...
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...
And he said unto his people, to the high officials and representatives of the people, who were his counselors, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we. This was an e...
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...
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 1:9 said H559 (H8799) people H5971 people H5971 children H1121 Israel H3478 more H7227 mightier H6099...
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...
the people. Numbers 22:4 Numbers 22:5 Job 5:2 Psalms 105:24 Psalms 105:25...
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...