God’s Word Translation
Exodus 2:24
24God heard their groaning, and he remembered his promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Exodus 2:24 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
- New International Version (NIV)God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
- New King James Version (NKJV)So God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Context of Exodus 2:24
22She gave birth to a son. Moses named him Gershom [Foreigner], because he said, “I was a foreigner living in another country.” 23After a long time passed, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites still groaned because they were slaves. So they cried out, and their cries for help went up to God. God heard their groaning, and he remembered his promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 25God saw the Israelites ⌞being oppressed⌟ and was concerned about them.
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וַיִּשְׁמַ֥ע אֱלֹהִ֖ים אֶת־נַאֲקָתָ֑ם וַיִּזְכֹּ֤ר אֱלֹהִים֙ אֶת־בְּרִית֔וֹ אֶת־אַבְרָהָ֖ם אֶת־יִצְחָ֥ק וְאֶֽת־יַעֲקֹֽב׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- And Godאֱלֹהִים'ĕlôhîym · GodH430
- heardשָׁמַעshâma‛ · to hear: hearH8085
- their groaningנְאָקָהne'âqâh · groanH5009
- rememberedזָכַרzâkar · to rememberH2142
- his covenantבְּרִיתberîyth · covenantH1285
- with Abrahamאַבְרָהָם'abrâhâm · AbrahamH85
- with Isaacיִצְחָקyitschâq · IsaacH3327
- and with Jacobיַעֲקֹבya‛ăqôb · JacobH3290
Cross-references for Exodus 2:24
- Exodus 6:5Now I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians hold in slavery, and I have remembered my promise.
- Judges 2:18But when the Lord appointed judges for the Israelites, he was with each judge. The Lord rescued them from their enemies as long as that judge was alive. The Lord was moved by the groaning of those who were tormented and oppressed.
- Nehemiah 9:27You handed them over to their enemies, who made them suffer. When they began to suffer, they cried to you. You heard them from heaven. You gave them saviors to rescue them from their enemies because of your endless compassion.
- Psalms 22:5They cried to you and were saved. They trusted you and were never disappointed.
- Psalms 79:11Let the groans of prisoners come into your presence. With your powerful arm rescue those who are condemned to death.
- Psalms 102:20He heard the groans of the prisoners and set free those who were condemned to death.
- Psalms 138:3When I called, you answered me. You made me bold by strengthening my soul.
- Genesis 15:14But I will punish the nation they serve, and after that they will come out with many possessions.
- Genesis 17:7I will make my promise to you and your descendants for generations to come as an everlasting promise. I will be your God and the God of your descendants.
- Genesis 18:18After all, Abraham is going to become a great and mighty nation and through him all the nations of the earth will be blessed.
- Genesis 26:3Live here in this land for a while, and I will be with you and bless you. I will give all these lands to you and your descendants. I will keep the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.
- Genesis 28:12He had a dream in which he saw a stairway set up on the earth with its top reaching up to heaven. He saw the angels of God going up and coming down on it.
- Genesis 32:28The man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob but Israel [He Struggles With God], because you have struggled with God and with men—and you have won.”
- Genesis 46:2God spoke to Israel in a vision that night and said, “Jacob, Jacob!” “Here I am,” he answered.
- Nehemiah 9:8You found that his heart was faithful to you. You made a promise to him to give the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Jebusites, and Girgashites to his descendants. You kept your promise because you are fair.
- Psalms 105:6you descendants of his servant Abraham, you descendants of Jacob, his chosen ones.
Commentaries on Exodus 2:24
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 24God remembered his covenant - God's covenant is God's engagement; he had promised to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give their posterity a land flowing with milk and honey, etc. They are now under the most oppressive bondage, and this was the most proper time for God to show them his mercy and power in fulfilling his promise. This is all that is meant by God's remembering his covenant, for it was now that he began to give it its effect.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 24Remembered - This means that God was moved by their prayers to give effect to the covenant, of which an essential condition was the faith and contrition involved in the act of supplication. The whole history of Israel is foreshadowed in these words: God heard, remembered, looked upon, and knew them. It evidently indicates the beginning of a crisis marked by a personal intervention of God.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 23-25Verses 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 sign that the Lord is coming towards us with deliverance, when he inclines and enables us to cry to him for it. God heard their groaning; he made it to appear that he took…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 24-25The verbs here describe a God who understands his people's needs (heard … saw) and who is faithful and reliable (remembered His covenant). He fulfills his responsibilities in a relationship (took notice).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 11-2511. in those days, when Moses was grown--not in age and stature only, but in power as well as in renown for accomplishments and military prowess (Ac 7:22). There is a gap here in the sacred history which, however, is supplied by the inspired commentary of Paul, who has fully detailed the reasons as well as extent of the change that took place in his worldly condition; and whether, as some say, his royal mother had proposed to make him coregent and…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Exodus 2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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