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Text -- Exodus 3:7 (NET)

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3:7 The Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt. I have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Egypt descendants of Mizraim


Dictionary Themes and Topics: TASKMASTER | Sorrow | Rulers | Religion | Quotations and Allusions | Prayer | Moses | MERCY; MERCIFUL | Israel | God | GOD, NAMES OF | GENESIS, 1-2 | EXACTORS | Communion | Bush | Afflictions and Adversities | ANGEL | more
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TSK Synopsis , MHCC , Matthew Henry , Keil-Delitzsch , Constable , Guzik

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

JFB: Exo 3:6-8 - -- The reverential awe of Moses must have been relieved by the divine Speaker (see Mat 22:32), announcing Himself in His covenant character, and by the w...

The reverential awe of Moses must have been relieved by the divine Speaker (see Mat 22:32), announcing Himself in His covenant character, and by the welcome intelligence communicated. Moreover, the time, as well as all the circumstances of this miraculous appearance, were such as to give him an illustrious display of God's faithfulness to His promises. The period of Israel's journey and affliction in Egypt had been predicted (Gen 15:13), and it was during the last year of the term which had still to run that the Lord appeared in the burning bush.|| 01590||1||13||0||@Come now therefore, and I will send thee==--Considering the patriotic views that had formerly animated the breast of Moses, we might have anticipated that no mission could have been more welcome to his heart than to be employed in the national emancipation of Israel. But he evinced great reluctance to it and stated a variety of objections [Exo 3:11, Exo 3:13; Exo 4:1, Exo 4:10] all of which were successfully met and removed--and the happy issue of his labors was minutely described.

Clarke: Exo 3:7 - -- I have surely seen - ראה ראיתי raoh raithi , seeing, I have seen - I have not only seen the afflictions of this people because I am omnisci...

I have surely seen - ראה ראיתי raoh raithi , seeing, I have seen - I have not only seen the afflictions of this people because I am omniscient, but I have considered their sorrows, and my eye affects my heart.

Calvin: Exo 3:7 - -- 7.And the Lord said Before he delegates to Moses the office of delivering his people, God encourages him in a somewhat lengthened address to the hope...

7.And the Lord said Before he delegates to Moses the office of delivering his people, God encourages him in a somewhat lengthened address to the hope of victory and success; for we know how doubts enfeeble and hold back the mind with anxiety and care; Moses then could not engage in or set about his work earnestly until furnished with the confidence of divine assistance. Therefore God promises to be his guide, that in reliance upon such aid he may gird himself boldly to the warfare. From hence we may gather this general doctrine — that, however slow and unwilling we may naturally be to obey God, we must not turn away from any command when he assures us of success, because no stimulus can be stronger than the promise that his hand shall be always ready to help us when we follow whither he calls us. With this object God thus speaks before he makes mention of the vocation of Moses, that he may more cheerfully enter upon his work, in the assurance of a successful issue. Moreover, when God has founded the redemption of his people upon his gratuitous covenant, and therefore on his own free bounty, he adds another argument derived from his justice, namely, that it is impossible for the judge of the world not to help the oppressed and afflicted when they are undeservedly mistreated, and especially when they implore his assistance. This is true generally, that God will be the avenger of all unjust cruelty; but his special aid may be expected by believers whom he has taken into his friendship and protection. Accordingly, when he has declared that he has been moved by his adoption of this people not to desert it in its extreme necessity, he adds, in confirmation, that he has come to restrain their oppressors’ tyranny, since he has heard the cry of the afflicted. This was said at that particular time to encourage Moses; but it ought to afford no common consolation in the troubles of us all when we are groaning under any unjust burden; for God, whose sight was then so clear, is not now so blind as not to see all injustice, and to pity them that call upon him. Although the expression here used in the original, “seeing I have seen,” is a Hebraism, still it signifies that, while God delays and suspends punishment, his winking at men’s evil deeds is no proof that he does not behold them from heaven, and will in due time appear as their judge, for the words denote a continued observation — as much as to say, that even then he was beholding them, when by his quiescence he might have seemed to neglect the tribulation of his people. By adding that he had heard their cry, he indirectly rebukes their lukewarmness, since we do not read that they cried until compelled by their extremity and despair. Therefore there is no cause for wonder that they almost wasted away under their misfortunes before succor came, because their prayers were scarcely offered 41 after a long time. And not even then is it probable (as I said before) that they prayed earnestly; but God had more respect to his mercy and faithfulness than to their right and well-grounded preparedness. In these words the Spirit exhorts us to call upon God, and not to be stunned and stupified by our cares and sorrows, but to learn to fly straightway to this sacred anchor; as the Psalmist also says, “The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry,” (Psa 34:15,) and as he testifies in another place, (Psa 65:2,) that he is a God that heareth prayer; thus does he anxiously invite us to this remedy whenever we are hard pressed. When he speaks of them as his “people which are in Egypt,” the apparent inconsistency does not a little tend to confirmation, implying that the promise which he made to Abraham with regard to inheriting the land of Canaan would not be without effect; for it would not accord with the truth of God that a people to whom an inheritance elsewhere was given should sojourn in Egypt, unless it was to be freed in the appointed season. It might also be understood adversatively — although a people dwelling in Egypt be far from the land of Canaan, and so might seem in a manner to be put away from me, still have I heard their cry. But the probable meaning is, that because it was not fit that a people which was to inherit the Holy Land should always remain sojourning elsewhere, therefore God would shortly deliver them. In the end of the verse the repetition in other words, “I know their sorrows,” is also an amplification of what came before.

TSK: Exo 3:7 - -- I have : Exo 2:23-25, Exo 22:23; Gen 29:32; 1Sa 9:16; Psa 22:24, Psa 34:4, Psa 34:6, Psa 106:44; Psa 145:19; Isa 63:9; Heb 4:15 by reason : Exo 1:11 I...

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Barnes: Exo 3:7 - -- Taskmasters - Oppressors. A different word from that in Exo 1:11. I know - The expression implies personal feeling, tenderness, and compa...

Taskmasters - Oppressors. A different word from that in Exo 1:11.

I know - The expression implies personal feeling, tenderness, and compassion (compare Exo 2:25 margin).

Poole: Exo 3:7 - -- I have surely seen Heb. In seeing, I have seen , i.e. I have seen and observed it diligently, accurately, and certainly; for so much the doubling of...

I have surely seen Heb. In seeing, I have seen , i.e. I have seen and observed it diligently, accurately, and certainly; for so much the doubling of the verb signifies.

Gill: Exo 3:7 - -- And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt,.... Or, "in seeing I have seen", which not only denotes the cert...

And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt,.... Or, "in seeing I have seen", which not only denotes the certainty of it, as we express it; but the clear, distinct, and full sight he had of it, with sympathy towards them, an affectionate concern for them, and a fixed, settled, determination in his mind to deliver them; he had long took notice of, and had thoroughly observed their affliction, and was afflicted with them in it, and was bent upon their deliverance out of it:

and have heard their cry, by reason of their taskmasters; who were set over them to see that they did their work, and to lay heavy burdens on them, and afflict them by all manner of ways and methods they could devise; and who abused and beat them for not doing what was not to be done, which made them cry out because of their barbarous usage of them, and cry unto God for help and deliverance:

for I know their sorrows; the pains of body they were put unto, and the inward grief and trouble of their minds on account of them.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Exo 3:7 Two new words are introduced now to the report of suffering: “affliction” and “pain/suffering.” These add to the dimension of ...

Geneva Bible: Exo 3:7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which [are] in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their ( h ) taskmasters;...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Exo 3:1-22 - --1 Moses keeps Jethro's flock.2 God appears to him in a burning bush.9 He sends him to deliver Israel.13 The name of God.15 His message to Israel, and ...

MHCC: Exo 3:7-10 - --God notices the afflictions of Israel. Their sorrows; even the secret sorrows of God's people are known to him. Their cry; God hears the cries of his ...

Matthew Henry: Exo 3:7-10 - -- Now that Moses had put off his shoes (for, no doubt, he observed the orders given him, Exo 3:5), and covered his face, God enters upon the particula...

Keil-Delitzsch: Exo 3:7-10 - -- Jehovah had seen the affliction of His people, had heard their cry under their taskmasters, and had come down ( ירד , vid., Gen 11:5) to deliver ...

Constable: Exo 1:1--15:22 - --I. THE LIBERATION OF ISRAEL 1:1--15:21 "The story of the first half of Exodus, in broad summary, is Rescue. The ...

Constable: Exo 2:6--3:7 - --B. Israel's conduct toward Yahweh and Yahweh's treatment of Israel in the period of the judges 2:6-3:6 T...

Constable: Exo 3:1--4:19 - --6. Moses' call 3:1-4:18 3:1-12 Horeb is another name for Sinai (v. 1). It probably indicates a range of mountains rather than a particular mountain pe...

Guzik: Exo 3:1-22 - --Exodus 3 - Moses and the Burning Bush A. God's call to Moses from the burning bush. 1. (1-3) Moses and the burning bush on Mount Horeb. Now Moses ...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Exodus (Book Introduction) EXODUS, a "going forth," derives its name from its being occupied principally with a relation of the departure of the Israelites from Egypt, and the i...

JFB: Exodus (Outline) INCREASE OF THE ISRAELITES. (Exo. 1:1-22) BIRTH AND PRESERVATION OF MOSES. (Exo 2:1-10) there went a man of the house of Levi, &c. Amram was the hus...

TSK: Exodus (Book Introduction) The title of this Book is derived from the Septuagint; in which it is called ΕΞΟΔΟΣ , " Exodus;" or, as it is in the Codex Alexandrinus, Ε...

TSK: Exodus 3 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Exo 3:1, Moses keeps Jethro’s flock; Exo 3:2, God appears to him in a burning bush; Exo 3:9, He sends him to deliver Israel; Exo 3:13, ...

Poole: Exodus (Book Introduction) SECOND BOOK OF MOSES CALLED EXODUS. THE ARGUMENT. AFTER the death of Joseph, who had sent for his father’ s house into Egypt, the children o...

Poole: Exodus 3 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 3 Moses keeping Jethro’ s flock, cometh to mount Horeb, Exo 3:1 . There God appears to him in a burning bush, Exo 3:2 . Moses beholds ...

MHCC: Exodus (Book Introduction) The Book of Exodus relates the forming of the children of Israel into a church and a nation. We have hitherto seen true religion shown in domestic lif...

MHCC: Exodus 3 (Chapter Introduction) (Exo 3:1-6) God appears to Moses in a burning bush. (Exo 3:7-10) God sends Moses to deliver Israel. (Exo 3:11-15) The name Jehovah. (Exo 3:16-22) T...

Matthew Henry: Exodus (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Moses (the servant of the Lord in writing for him as well as ...

Matthew Henry: Exodus 3 (Chapter Introduction) As prophecy had ceased for many ages before the coming of Christ, that the revival and perfection of it in that great prophet might be the more rem...

Constable: Exodus (Book Introduction) Introduction Title The Hebrew title of this book (we'elleh shemot) originated from the...

Constable: Exodus (Outline) Outline I. The liberation of Israel 1:1-15:21 A. God's preparation of Israel and Moses chs. ...

Constable: Exodus Exodus Bibliography Adams, Dwayne H. "The Building Program that Works (Exodus 25:4--36:7 [31:1-11])." Exegesis ...

Haydock: Exodus (Book Introduction) THE BOOK OF EXODUS. INTRODUCTION. The second Book of Moses is called Exodus from the Greek word Exodos, which signifies going out; becaus...

Gill: Exodus (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS This book is called by the Jews Veelleh Shemoth, from the first words with which it begins, and sometimes Sepher Shemoth, an...

Gill: Exodus 3 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 3 In this chapter we are informed how that the Lord appeared to Moses in a bush on fire, but not consumed, Exo 3:1, declared...

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