Exodus 2:24

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.
• 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.
• New Living Translation (NLT)God heard their groaning, and he remembered his covenant promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Context of Exodus 2:24

22Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.” 23During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God. God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. 25So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them.

Exodus 2:24 word by word

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 6:5Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant.
• Judges 2:18Whenever the Lord raised up a judge for them, he was with the judge and saved them out of the hands of their enemies as long as the judge lived; for the Lord relented because of their groaning under those who oppressed and afflicted them.
• Nehemiah 9:27So you delivered them into the hands of their enemies, who oppressed them. But when they were oppressed they cried out to you. From heaven you heard them, and in your great compassion you gave them deliverers, who rescued them from the hand of their enemies.
• Psalms 22:5To you they cried out and were saved; in you they trusted and were not put to shame.
• Psalms 79:11May the groans of the prisoners come before you; with your strong arm preserve those condemned to die.
• Psalms 102:20to hear the groans of the prisoners and release those condemned to death.”
• Psalms 138:3When I called, you answered me; you greatly emboldened me.
• Genesis 15:14But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.
• Genesis 17:7I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
• Genesis 18:18Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him.
• Genesis 26:3Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham.
• Genesis 28:12He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.
• Genesis 32:28Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.”
• Genesis 46:2And God spoke to Israel in a vision at night and said, “Jacob! Jacob!” “Here I am,” he replied.
• Nehemiah 9:8You found his heart faithful to you, and you made a covenant with him to give to his descendants the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Jebusites and Girgashites. You have kept your promise because you are righteous.
• Psalms 105:6you his servants, the descendants of Abraham, his chosen ones, the children of Jacob.

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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In the dictionaries

• Abraham
• God
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• Jacob
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• Jacob, Israel
• god, false god, goddess, idol, idolater, idolatrous, idolatry
• Herself
• Son
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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