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PARALLEL BIBLE - Exodus 2:25


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King James Bible - Exodus 2:25

And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.

World English Bible

God saw the children of Israel, and God was concerned about them.

Douay-Rheims - Exodus 2:25

And the Lord looked upon the children of Israel, and he knew them.

Webster's Bible Translation

And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect to them.

Original Hebrew

וירא
7200 אלהים 430 את 853 בני 1121 ישׂראל 3478 וידע 3045 אלהים׃ 430

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Ex 4:31 1Sa 1:11 2Sa 16:12 Job 33:27 Lu 1:25

SEV Biblia, Chapter 2:25

Y miró Dios a los hijos de Israel, y los reconoció Dios.

Clarke's Bible Commentary - Exodus 2:25

Verse 25. And
God had respect unto them.] µyhla [dyw vaiyeda Elohim, God knew them, i.e., he approved of them, and therefore it is said that their cry came up before God, and he heard their groaning. The word [dy yada, to know, in the Hebrew Bible, as well as ginwskw in the Greek Testament, is frequently used in the sense of approving; and because God knew - had respect for and approved of, them, therefore he was determined to deliver them. For µyhla Elohim, GOD, in the last clause of this verse, Houbigant reads µhyla aleyhem, UPON THEM, which is countenanced by the Vulgate, Septuagint, Chaldee, Coptic, and Arabic, and appears to have been the original reading. The difference in the original consists in the interchange of two letters, the y yod and h he. Our translators insert unto them, in order to make up that sense which this various reading gives without trouble.

THE farther we proceed in the sacred writings, the more the history both of the grace and providence of God opens to our view. He ever cares for his creatures, and is mindful of his promise. The very means made use of to destroy his work are, in his hands, the instruments of its accomplishment. Pharaoh orders the male children of the Hebrews to be thrown into the river; Moses, who was thus exposed, is found by his own daughter, brought up as her own son, and from his Egyptian education becomes much better qualified for the great work to which God had called him; and his being obliged to leave Egypt was undoubtedly a powerful means to wean his heart from a land in which he had at his command all the advantages and luxuries of life. His sojourning also in a strange land, where he was obliged to earn his bread by a very painful employment, fitted him for the perilous journey he was obliged to take in the wilderness, and enabled him to bear the better the privations to which he was in consequence exposed.

The bondage of the Israelites was also wisely permitted, that they might with less reluctance leave a country where they had suffered the greatest oppression and indignities. Had they not suffered severely previously to their departure, there is much reason to believe that no inducements could have been sufficient to have prevailed on them to leave it. And yet their leaving it was of infinite consequence, in the order both of grace and providence, as it was indispensably necessary that they should be a people separated from all the rest of the world, that they might see the promises of God fulfilled under their own eyes, and thus have the fullest persuasion that their law was Divine, their prophets inspired by the Most High, and that the Messiah came according to the prophecies before delivered concerning him.

From the example of Pharaoh's daughter, (see the note "ver. 5",) and the seven daughters of Jethro, (ver. 16,) we learn that in the days of primitive simplicity, and in this respect the best days, the children, particularly the daughters of persons in the highest ranks in life, were employed in the most labourious offices. Kings' daughters performed the office of the laundress to their own families; and the daughters of princes tended and watered the flocks. We have seen similar instances in the case of Rebekah and Rachel; and we cannot be too pointed in calling the attention of modern delicate females, who are not only above serving their own parents and family, but even their own selves: the consequence of which is, they have neither vigour nor health; their growth, for want of healthy exercise, is generally cramped; their natural powers are prematurely developed, and their whole course is rather an apology for living, than a state of effective life. Many of these live not out half their days, and their offspring, when they have any, is more feeble than themselves; so that the race of man where such preposterous conduct is followed (and where is it not followed?) is in a state of gradual deterioration. Parents who wish to fulfill the intention of God and nature, will doubtless see it their duty to bring up their children on a different plan. A worse than the present can scarcely be found out.

Afflictions, under the direction of God's providence and the influence of his grace, are often the means of leading men to pray to and acknowledge God, who in the time of their prosperity hardened their necks from his fear. When the Israelites were sorely oppressed, they began to pray. If the cry of oppression had not been among them, probably the cry for mercy had not been heard. Though afflictions, considered in themselves, can neither atone for sin nor improve the moral state of the soul, yet God often uses them as means to bring sinners to himself, and to quicken those who, having already escaped the pollutions of the world, were falling again under the influence of an earthly mind. Of many millions besides David it may truly be said, Before they were afflicted they went astray.


Matthew Henry Commentary

Verses 23-25 - The Israelites' bondage in Egypt continued, though the murdering of their infants did not continue. Sometimes the Lord suffers the rod of the wicked to lie very long and very heavy on the lot of the righteous At last they began to think of God under their troubles. It is a sig that the Lord is coming towards us with deliverance, when he incline and enables us to cry to him for it. God heard their groaning; he mad it to appear that he took notice of their complaints. He remembered his covenant, of which he is ever mindful. He considered this, and not an merit of theirs. He looked upon the children of Israel. Moses looke upon them, and pitied them; but now God looked upon them, and helpe them. He had respect unto them. His eyes are now fixed upon Israel, to show himself in their behalf. God is ever thus, a very present help i trouble. Take courage then, ye who, conscious of guilt and thraldom are looking to Him for deliverance. God in Christ Jesus is also lookin upon you. A call of love is joined with a promise of the Redeemer. Com unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give yo rest, Mt 11:28 __________________________________________________________________


Original Hebrew

וירא 7200 אלהים 430 את 853 בני 1121 ישׂראל 3478 וידע 3045 אלהים׃ 430


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