exodus-2:1-10,-hebrews-12:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 2:3

The ark was made of the papyrus which was commonly used by the Egyptians for light and swift boats. The species is no longer found in the Nile below Nubia. It is a strong rush, like the bamboo, about the thickness of a finger, three cornered, and attains the height of 10 to 15 feet. It is represented with great accuracy on the most ancient monuments of Egypt.Slime and pitch - The “slime” is probably the mud, of which bricks were usually made in Egypt, and which in this case was used to bind the... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 2:5

The traditions which give a name to the daughter of Pharaoh are merely conjectural. Egyptian princesses held a very high and almost independent position under the ancient and middle empire, with a separate household and numerous officials. This was especially the case with the daughters of the first sovereigns of the 18th Dynasty.Many facts concur in indicating that the residence of the daughter of Pharaoh and of the family of Moses, was at Zoan, Tanis, now San, the ancient Avaris (Exodus 1:8... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 2:6

She had compassion on him - The Egyptians regarded such tenderness as a condition of acceptance on the day of reckoning. In the presence of the Lord of truth each spirit had to answer, “I have not afflicted any man, I have not made any man weep, I have not withheld milk from the mouths of sucklings” (‘Funeral Ritual’). There was special ground for mentioning the feeling, since it led the princess to save and adopt the child in spite of her father’s commands. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 2:10

He became her son - See the margin reference. His training and education was, humanly speaking, all but indispensable to the efficient accomplishment of his work as the predestined leader and instructor of his countrymen. Moses probably passed the early years of his life in Lower Egypt, where the princess resided. However, there may be substantial grounds for the tradition in Josephus that he was engaged in a campaign against the Ethiopians, thus showing himself, as Stephen says, “mighty in... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 2:1

Exodus 2:1. There went a man Amram, from the place of his abode to another place. A daughter That is, grand-daughter of Levi. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 2:2

Exodus 2:2. Bare a son It seems just at the time of his birth that cruel law was made for the murder of all the male children of the Hebrews, and many no doubt perished by the execution of it. Moses’s parents had Miriam and Aaron, both elder than he, born to them before that edict came out. Probably his mother had little joy of her being with child of him, now this edict was in force. Yet this child proves the glory of his father’s house. Observe the beauty of Providence: just when... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 2:3

Exodus 2:3. When she could no longer hide him For fear of being informed against by some of her Egyptian neighbours, with whom the Israelites lived intermixed, Exodus 3:22. Thus Moses, who was afterward to be the deliverer of Israel, was himself upon the point of falling a sacrifice to the fury of the oppressor; God so ordered it, that being told of this he might be the more animated with zeal for the deliverance of his brethren out of the hands of such bloody men. She took for him an ark... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 2:5-6

Exodus 2:5-6. And the daughter of Pharaoh came Providence brings no less a person than Pharaoh’s daughter just at that juncture, guides her to the place where this poor infant lay, inclines her heart to pity it, which she dares do, when none else durst. Never did poor child cry so seasonably as this did; the babe wept Which moved her compassion, as no doubt his beauty did. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 2:10

Exodus 2:10. And he became her son The tradition of the Jews is, that Pharaoh’s daughter had no child of her own, and that she was the only child of her father, so that when he was adopted for her son, he stood fair for the crown: however, it is certain he stood fair for the best preferments of the court in due time, and in the mean time had the advantage of the best education, with the help of which he became master of all the lawful learning of the Egyptians, Acts 7:22. Those whom God... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Exodus 2:1-25

Preparation of Moses (2:1-25)Moses was the person God chose to save his people and lead them out of Egypt. He was born of godly Hebrew parents, who no doubt taught him that the true and living God was the only legitimate object of human worship, and this God had chosen Israel to be his people. At the same time Moses grew up in the Egyptian palace, where he was trained in the best learning and culture available at that time (2:1-10; see Acts 7:22; Hebrews 11:23).By the time he was forty years of... read more

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 2:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 2:5

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 2:6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 2:10

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 2:1

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 2:2

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 2:3

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 2:5-6

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 2:10

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Exodus 2:1-25

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