Exodus 6:7-8 - Exposition

The promises are continued, heaped one upon another.

1 . God will take them for his own people.

2 . He will be, in a special sense, their God.

3 . They shall clearly know that it is he who brings them forth out of Egypt.

4 . They shall be brought into the promised land.

5 . The land shall be made over to them, and become their own inheritance.

The Israelites were formally taken to be God's people at Sinai ( Exodus 19:5 , Exodus 19:6 ); where, at the same time, he became (specially but not exclusively) their God ( Exodus 20:1 ; Exodus 29:45 , Exodus 29:40 ). They had evidence that it was he who brought them forth in the pillar of fire and of a cloud ( Exodus 13:21 ; Exodus 14:19 , Exodus 14:20 , etc.). They were brought into the promised land by Joshua ( Joshua 4:1 ), and given the full possession of it by him and his successors—the various judges and kings, until at last, under David and Solomon, they held the entire tract that had been promised to Abraham (see 1 Kings 4:21 ; 2 Chronicles 9:26 ).