Exodus 12:11

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 12:7-13

Christ his people's salvation and strength. I. THE MEANS OF SAFETY , Exodus 12:7-13 ). 1 . They took the blood and struck it on the door posts and the lintel. We must appropriate Christ's atonement. We must say by faith, "he died for me." 2 . They passed within the blood-stained portals. Christ's blood must stand between us and condemnation, between us and sin. Our safety lies in setting that between oar soul and them. The realising of Christ's death for our sins is,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 12:11

With your loins girded , etc. Completely prepared, i.e; to start on your journey—with the loose wrapper ( beged ), ordinarily worn, collected together and fastened by a girdle about the waist; with sandals on the feet, which were not commonly worn in houses; and with walking-sticks in the hand. There were some Jews who regarded these directions as of perpetual obligation; but the general view was that they applied to the first occasion only, when alone they would have answered any... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 12:11

These instructions are understood by the Jews to apply only to the first Passover, when they belonged to the occasion. There is no trace of their observance at any later time. Each of the directions marks preparation for a journey; the long flowing robes are girded round the loins; shoes or sandals, not worn in the house or at meals, were fastened on the feet; and the traveler’s staff was taken in hand.The Lord’s passover - The great and most significant name for the whole ordinance. The word... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 12:10-11

Exodus 12:10-11. With your loins girded In a travelling posture, prepared for a journey, which is also the import of the three following particulars. Ye shall eat it in haste As men expecting every moment to begin their journey. Now all these ceremonies were to accompany the feast, that it might be a more lively commemoration of their signal deliverance out of Egypt. It is the Lord’s passover A sacrifice in honour of Jehovah, who passed over, or spared the Israelites, when he smote the... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Exodus 12:1-36

The Passover (12:1-36)Until now the Israelites had escaped the judgment of the plagues without having to do anything, but now their safety depended on their carrying out God’s commands. Redemption involves faith and obedience.Each family would be delivered from judgment only by killing a sacrificial animal as substitute for it, and sprinkling the animal’s blood on the door of the house where the family lived. The sprinkled blood indicated to those outside that a substitutionary sacrifice had... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Exodus 12:11

loins girded , i.e. the loose flowing garments fastened up with a belt or girdle, making the men ready for action. Compare Luke 12:35 , Luke 12:37 ; Luke 17:8 . Acts 12:8 . 1Ki 18:46 . 2 Kings 4:29 ; 2 Kings 4:9 . Ephesians 6:14 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Exodus 12:7-11

"And they shall take of the blood, and put it on the two side-posts and upon the lintel, upon the houses wherein they shall eat. And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; with bitter herbs they shall eat it. Eat not of it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roast with fire; its head with its legs and with the inwards thereof And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Exodus 12:11

Exodus 12:11. Thus shall ye eat it— The reason of these peculiar ceremonies is abundantly evident: and they were to be kept in perpetual commemoration of the departure of the Israelites from Egypt, and of their redemption, when the Lord passed through the land: and, in a moral and spiritual view, they serve well to signify to us, that readiness of soul, wherewith we, as strangers and pilgrims, should eat of the true passover, and await the Lord's command to leave the land of our bondage, and go... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Exodus 12:11

11. thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet—as prepared for a journey. The first was done by the skirts of the loose outer cloth being drawn up and fastened in the girdle, so as to leave the leg and knee free for motion. As to the other, the Orientals never wear shoes indoors, and the ancient Egyptians, as appears from the monuments, did not usually wear either shoes or sandals. These injunctions seem to have applied chiefly to the first celebration of the rite. it... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 12:1-14

Directions for the Passover 12:1-14The Jews called their first month Abib (Exodus 12:2). After the Babylonian captivity they renamed it Nisan (Nehemiah 2:1; Esther 3:7). It corresponds to our March-April. Abib means "ear-month" referring to the month when the grain was in the ear."The reference to the Passover month as the ’lead month,’ ’the first of the year’s months’ is best understood as a double entendre. On the one hand, the statement may be connected with an annual calendar, but on the... read more

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