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Hawker's Poor man's commentary

Exodus 3:8

Isaiah 63:4. And doth not the Lord repeat this perpetually to all his tried family? Is not Jesus actually come down to bring his people up to the heavenly Canaan? What doth he say! Pray read that precious promise: John 14:1.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Exodus 3:8. _AND I AM COME DOWN TO DELIVER THEM_] This is the very purpose for which I am now come down upon this mountain, and for which I manifest myself to thee. _LARGE - LAND_] Canaan, whe...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The natural richness of Palestine, the variety and excellence of its productions, are attested by sacred (compare Jeremiah 32:22; Ezekiel 20:6) and ancient writers, whose descriptions are strongly in...

  • 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 COME DOWN TO DELIVER THEM. When the Scriptures speak of God "coming down" they use the language to adapt themselves to human understanding. It is meant that God would now intervene for the deliver...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    DELIVER. Connect this with "serve" in Exodus 3:12. and connect both with 1 Thessalonians 1:9; 1 Thessalonians 1:10. GOOD. Five-fold description of the land: good, large, milk, honey, place of the

  • 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

    A GOOD LAND AND A LARGE, &C.— The land of Canaan is here described as good and large, and abounding with plenty; _flowing with milk and honey,_ a proverbial expression, denoting plenty; and, as such,...

  • 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

    _AND THE LORD SAID, I HAVE SURELY SEEN THE AFFLICTION OF MY PEOPLE WHICH ARE IN EGYPT, AND HAVE HEARD THEIR CRY BY REASON OF THEIR TASKMASTERS; FOR I KNOW THEIR SORROWS;_ I have surely seen the affli...

  • 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

    FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY] A proverbial expression indicating fertility and abundance. On the tribes inhabiting Canaan see on Genesis 10; Numbers 34:1. 11. With the hesitation of Moses compare that...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    EXODUS: ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION THE *ISRAELITES LEAVE EGYPT EXODUS CHAPTER S 1 TO 18 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 3 GOD CALLS MOSES 3:1 – 4:17 THE BUSH THAT BURNED – VERSES 1-6 V1 N...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I AM COME DOWN. — By condescension to human infirmity, which conceives of all things under the limitations of time and space, God is spoken of as dwelling ordinarily in heaven, or “the heaven of heave...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וָ אֵרֵ֞ד לְ הַצִּילֹ֣ו ׀ מִ יַּ֣ד מִצְרַ֗יִם

  • 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

    And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land (i) flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Spacious, compared with that of Gessen. Chanaan was not above 210 miles long, and 70 broad. (Brocard.) St. Jerome does not allow so much. Hecateus says that the Jews had three million acres of excell...

  • 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

    8._And I am come down to deliver them. _He now more clearly announces his intention not only to relieve their present calamity, but to fulfill the promise given to Abraham as to the possession of Cana...

  • 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

    AND I AM COME DOWN TO DELIVER THEM OUT OF THE HAND OF THE EGYPTIANS,.... Which must be understood consistent with the omnipresence of God, who is everywhere, and strictly speaking cannot be said to re...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the...

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

    _I am come down to deliver them_ When God doth something very extraordinary, he is said to _come down_ to do it, as Isaiah 64:1. This deliverance was typical of our redemption by Christ, and in that t...

  • 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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    and I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE COMMAND TO GO TO EGYPT...

  • 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

    7-10 God notices the afflictions of Israel. Their sorrows; even the secret sorrows of God's people are known to him. Their cry; God hears the cries of his afflicted people. The oppression they endured...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    I AM COME DOWN: this word notes God's manifestation of himself and his favour, and giving help from heaven. See GENESIS 18:21. It was A GOOD LAND AND A LARGE, not only comparatively to Goshen, where t...

  • 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 3:8 down H3381 (H8799) deliver H5337 (H8687) hand H3027 Egyptians H4714 bring H5927 (H8687) land...

  • 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 3:1 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

    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...

  • 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...

  • 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

    _I am come down to deliver them._ THE WORLD’S SORROW AND CHRIST’S REDEMPTION 1. Christ came down from heaven. 2. Christ came at the call of the world’s sorrow. 3. Christ came to achieve the world’...

  • 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 3:7 God tells Moses that he knows about Israel’s affliction (I HAVE... SEEN, HEARD, KNOW; see also...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 3:7_ THE CALLING OF A GREAT DELIVERER I. HIS CALL WAS RENDERED NECESSARY BY INTENSE NATIONAL SUFFERING. (Exodus 3:7). 1. _The sufferings to which the Israe...

  • 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

    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 mount Horeb (Exodus 3:1). Now n...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    I am. Genesis 11:5 Genesis 11:7 Genesis 18:21 Genesis 50:24 Psalms 18:9

  • 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 come down to deliver them — When God doth something very extraordinary, he is said to come down to do it, as Isaiah 64:1. This deliverance was typical of our redemption by Christ, and in that the...

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