Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Exodus 6:1-8
CRITICAL NOTES.—Exodus 6:1-4. Then the Lord] We can scarcely err in saying that this verse should go with chap 5; and, as furnishing the immediate answer of Jehovah to the complaint of Moses, it brings the narrative to a resting place. Exodus 6:2 begins a new section. 2 By my name Jehovah was I not known to them] We here come upon what appears to be a grave difficulty. It does not at once approve itself to our minds as consistent with fact to say that the fathers of the Hebrew people were not... read more
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Exodus 6:26
i.e. According to their numerous families, which were equal to great armies, and which went out of Egypt like several armies in military order, and with great power. See Exodus 12:41,Exodus 12:51; Exodus 13:18; Exodus 14:8. read more