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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Exodus 6:14

Verse Exodus 6:14. These be the heads] ראשי rashey, the chiefs or captains. The following genealogy was simply intended to show that Moses and Aaron came in a direct line from Abraham, and to ascertain the time of Israel's deliverance. The whole account from Exodus 6:14-2 inclusive, is a sort of parenthesis, and does not belong to the narration; and what follows from Exodus 6:28 is a recapitulation of what was spoken in the preceding chapters.

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See also Exodus 6:14 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THESE BE THE HEADS - We have in the following verses, not a complete genealogy, but a summary account of the family of the two brothers. Moses records for the satisfaction of Hebrew readers, to whom g...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 6:1-27 JEHOVAH'S ANSWERS AND THE GENEALOGY _ 1. Jehovah answers Moses (Exodus 6:1)_ 2. The Genealogy (Exodus 6:14) Moses' “wherefore” and “why,” his outburst of impatience, is graciously met...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    An insertion by the editor, who in Exodus 6:13 anticipates the mention of Aaron (Exodus 7:1 f.), and in Exodus 6:14 compresses a wider genealogy to give the pedigree of Moses and Aaron, and in...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    MOSES AND AARON shown to be the crown of the previous pedigrees. They gather the "heads" who are to speak to Pharaoh, Exodus 6:27....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 6 AND JE-HO-VAH SAID UNTO MO-SES, NOW SHALT THOU SEE WHAT I WILL DO TO PHA-RAOH: FOR BY A STRONG HAND SHALL HE LET THEM GO, AND BY A STRONG HAND SHALL HE DRIVE THEM OUT...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THESE BE THE HEADS OF THEIR FATHERS' HOUSES: THE SONS OF REUBEN THE FIRSTBORN OF ISRAEL; HANOCH, AND PALLU, HEZRON, AND CARMI: THESE BE THE FAMILIES OF REUBEN._ These be the heads - chiefs or govern...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE RENEWAL OF THE PROMISE. GENEALOGIES OF REUBEN, SIMEON, AND LEVI 1. The STRONG HAND is the hand of Jehovah, not of Pharaoh. So RV renders, 'by a strong hand,' i.e. under the compelling force of Je...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    HANOCH] the Hebrew form of Enoch....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    EXODUS: ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION THE *ISRAELITES LEAVE EGYPT EXODUS CHAPTER S 1 TO 18 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 6 V1 Then the *LORD replied to Moses. ‘Now you will see what I will d...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    REUBEN... SIMEON. — It fixes the position of the family of Levi in the house of Jacob to commence the genealogy with a mention of the two elder brothers. As, however, the writer is really concerned on...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE FAMILY OF MOSES. (14) THESE BE THE HEADS OF THEIR FATHERS’ HOUSES. — Genealogies have always had a special interest for the Semitic races. They occupy quite as prominent a position in Arabian as i...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אֵ֖לֶּה רָאשֵׁ֣י בֵית ־אֲבֹתָ֑ם בְּנֵ֨י רְאוּבֵ֜ן...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER VI. _ THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF MOSES._ Exodus 6:1. We have seen that the name Jehovah expresses not a philosophic meditation, but the most bracing and reassuring truth--viz., that an immutable a...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE LINE OF DESCENT OF GOD'S SPOKESMEN Exodus 6:10 Here is an inventory of God's jewels, in the day when He counted them up. We are reminded of Malachi 3:17. Before He led forth the flock, the Good S...

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

    Here commences the section of Exodus devoted to the subject of national deliverance. Everything began with a solemn charge to Moses. It is first an answer to the complaint which God's servant had utte...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    These [be] the heads (e) of their fathers' houses: The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel; Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi: these [be] the families of Reuben. (e) This genealogy shows whom M...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _These. From this place to ver. 26, is written in a kind of parentheses: the remainder of the chapter is a recapitulation of what had been said. (Calmet) --- Moses intends to give his own genealogy, a...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    By a reference to other parts of scripture this descent may be more fully explained. See Genesis 46:9, etc. 1 Chronicles 6:1; Numbers 3:17....

  • 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

    14._These be the heads. _The object of Moses here is to testify to all ages the origin of his race, that none may doubt that, in the free departure of the people, the promise given to Abraham was comp...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 5 THROUGH 13. At the news of the goodness of God, the people adore Him; but the struggle against the power of evil is another matter. Satan will not let the p...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THESE BE THE HEADS OF THEIR FATHER'S HOUSES,.... Not of the families of Moses and Aaron, but of the children of Israel, though only the heads of three tribes are mentioned; and some think that these t...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    These [be] the heads of their fathers' houses: The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel; Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi: these [be] the families of Reuben. Ver. 14. _These be the heads._] Thi...

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

    This genealogy ends in those two great patriots, Moses and Aaron, and comes in here to show that they were Israelites, bone of the bone, and flesh of the flesh of those whom they were sent to deliver;...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 God renueth his promise by his Name IEHOVAH. 14 The genealogie of Reuben, 15 of Simeon, 16 of Leui, of whom came Moses and Aaron. 1 THEN the LORD said vnto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE GENEALOGY OF MOSES AND AARON...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    These be the heads of their father's houses. The tribes were considered as branching off first into families, or clans, or heads of the father-houses; these again branch off into the father-houses the...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    D. MOSES AND AARON BEFORE PHARAOH. THE SEEMINGLY MISCHIEVOUAS EFFECT OF THEIR DIVINE MESSAGE, AND THE DISCOURAGMENT OF THE PEOPLE AND THE MESSENGERS THEMSELVES. GOD REVERSES THIS EFFECT NU SOLEMNLY PR...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    GOD'S FURTHER PATIENT PREPARATION (vs.1-13) The impatience of Moses and of the children of Israel could not hasten God to act out of impatience. He accomplished matters in His own wise way. He tells...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    14-30 Moses and Aaron were Israelites; raised up unto them of their brethren, as Christ also should be, who was to be the Prophet and Priest, the Redeemer and Lawgiver of the people of Israel. Moses...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    This genealogy he describes here, to show the lineage of Moses and Aaron, by. whom this great work was to be effected. Only he promiseth in brief the genealogy of his two elder brethren. Reuben and Si...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    The effect of the first appeal to Pharaoh seemed ought but encouraging. The thought of losing Israel made him clutch them with greater eagerness and watch them with greater vigilance. Whenever Satan's...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Exodus 6:14 heads H7218 fathers H1 houses H1004 sons H1121 Reuben H7205 firstborn H1060 Israel H3478 Hanoch H2585 Pallu...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YAHWEH'S CHARGE TO MOSES AND AARON AND DETAILS OF AARON'S BACKGROUND (EXODUS 6:10). Here we have a further chiasmus based around genealogical information to do with Aaron as the head of Moses' family...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jehovah's answer to Moses' first prayer. Covenant renewed. Families of Israel. Moses' commission renewed. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Pharaoh. CONCLUSION: Man's extremity is God's opportunity...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Exodus 6:1. _With a strong hand._ In a general view we do not find that heaven has recourse to miracles, except when religion is low and greatly depressed, somewhat as a fire which is burnt down has n...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _These be the heads of their fathers’ houses._ THE GENEALOGY OF THE CHURCH I. That it was, humanly speaking, of very unpretentious origin. II. That it was, morally speaking, of a very miscellaneous...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 6:14 The genealogy begins as if the sons or HEADS of the household of Jacob’s sons will be listed in birth order (v. Exodus 6:14). First it names the

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 6:14. The heads of their fathers’ houses] It is obvious that Exodus 6:13 form a distinct section: indeed Exodus 6:30 resumes the very words of...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION EXODUS 6:13-2 At this point the narrative is interrupted The author, or the final compiler—perhaps Joshua—thought it desirable to insert here a genealogical section, taking up the _fatuity...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Chapter five of the book of Exodus, we left Moses in great despair. He did what he thought God was calling him to do. He went to the Pharaoh and demanded the release of the children of Israel. But the...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    the heads Exodus 6:25 Joshua 14:1 Joshua 19:51 1 Chronicles 5:24...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

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

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    This genealogy ends in those two great patriots, Moses and Aaron; and comes in here to shew that they were Israelites, bone of their bone, and flesh of their flesh, whom they were sent to deliver, rai...

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