Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible

Verses 5–10 Come, see the place where that great man, Moses, lay, when he was a little child; it was in a bulrush basket by the ...

The Israelites' bondage in Egypt continued, though the murdering of their infants did not continue. Sometimes the Lord suffers t ...

God does not say, I was the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but I am. The patriarchs still live, so many years after their bod ...

yoke, they drudge on till the Lord sends redemption. With the invitations of the gospel, God sends the teaching of his Spirit. T ...

Verses 18–23 After God had appeared in the bush, he often spake to Moses. Pharaoh had hardened his own heart against the groans ...

therefore talked of going to sacrifice. He thus misrepresents them, that he might have a pretence to add to their burdens. To th ...

and have made them forget their misery; but they were so taken up with their troubles, that they did not heed God's promises. By ...

as he was, could not resist. Moses stood not in awe of Pharaoh, but made him tremble. This seems to be meant in the words, Thou ...

Chapter 8 Chapter Outline The plague of frogs. (1–15) The plague of lice. (16–19) The plague of flies. (20–32) Verses 1–15 Phara ...

the objects of the worship of the Egyptians, namely, their calves or oxen. Those who would offer acceptable sacrifice to God, mu ...

which neither threatenings nor promise, neither judgements nor mercies, make any abiding impression. The conscience being stupif ...

judgment; but when that was over, his fair promises were forgotten. Those that are not bettered by judgments and mercies, common ...

point the wind is in, it is fulfilling God's word, and turns by his counsel. The wind bloweth where it listeth, as to us; but no ...

God's last instructions to Moses respecting (1–3) Pharaoh and the Egyptians. The death of the first-born threatened. (4–10) Vers ...

The people instructed how to observe the (21–28) passover. The death of the first-born of the Egyptians, (29–36) The Israelites ...

and his cross, as well as Christ and his crown. It was to be eaten at once, not put by till morning. To-day Christ is offered, a ...

Verses 37–42 The children of Israel set forward without delay. A mixed multitude went with them. Some, perhaps, willing to leave ...

Joseph's bones carried with the Israelites, (17–20) They come to Etham. God guideth the Israelites by a pillar of (21, 22) cloud ...

rather to their faith and hope, that God would bring them to Canaan, in expectation of which they carried these bones with them ...

the envy and rage of men against his people, a torment to themselves. Those who set their faces heavenward, and will live godly ...