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Exodus 2:17
17But some other shepherds came and chased them away. So Moses jumped up and rescued the girls from the shepherds. Then he drew water for their flocks.
Exodus 2:17 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
- New International Version (NIV)Some shepherds came along and drove them away, but Moses got up and came to their rescue and watered their flock.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and saved them, and watered their flock.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Then the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
Context of Exodus 2:17
15And sure enough, Pharaoh heard what had happened, and he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in the land of Midian. When Moses arrived in Midian, he sat down beside a well. 16Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters who came as usual to draw water and fill the water troughs for their father’s flocks. But some other shepherds came and chased them away. So Moses jumped up and rescued the girls from the shepherds. Then he drew water for their flocks. 18When the girls returned to Reuel, their father, he asked, “Why are you back so soon today?” 19“An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds,” they answered. “And then he drew water for us and watered our flocks.”
Read all of Exodus 2Exodus 2:17 word by word
וַיָּבֹ֥אוּ הָרֹעִ֖ים וַיְגָרְשׁ֑וּם וַיָּ֤קָם מֹשֶׁה֙ וַיּ֣וֹשִׁעָ֔ן וַיַּ֖שְׁקְ אֶת־צֹאנָֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- And the shepherdsרָעָהrâ‛âh · to pastureH7462
- cameבּוֹאbô' · to come (in): comeH935
- and drove them awayגָּרַשׁgârash · to drive out: drive outH1644
- but Mosesמֹשֶׁהmôsheh · MosesH4872
- stood upקוּםqûm · to arise: riseH6965
- and helpedיָשַׁעyâsha‛ · to saveH3467
- them, and wateredשָׁקָהshâqâh · to water: wateringH8248
- their flockצֹאןtsô'n tse'ôn · flockH6629
Cross-references for Exodus 2:17
- Genesis 21:25Then Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that Abimelech’s servants had taken by force from Abraham’s servants.
- Genesis 26:15So the Philistines filled up all of Isaac’s wells with dirt. These were the wells that had been dug by the servants of his father, Abraham.
- Exodus 2:12After looking in all directions to make sure no one was watching, Moses killed the Egyptian and hid the body in the sand.
- Genesis 29:10And because Rachel was his cousin—the daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother—and because the sheep and goats belonged to his uncle Laban, Jacob went over to the well and moved the stone from its mouth and watered his uncle’s flock.
Commentaries on Exodus 2:17
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 17The shepherds - drove them - The verb יגרשים yegareshum, being in the masculine gender, seems to imply that the shepherds drove away the flocks of Reuel's daughters, and not the daughters themselves. The fact seems to be, that, as the daughters of Reuel filled the troughs and brought their flocks to drink, the shepherds drove those away, and, profiting by the young women's labor, watered their own cattle. Moses resisted this insolence, and assisted them…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 16-22Verses 16-22 Moses found shelter in Midian. He was ready to help Reuel's daughters to water their flocks, although bred in learning and at court. Moses loved to be doing justice, and to act in defence of such as he saw injured, which every man ought to do, as far as it is in his power. He loved to be doing good; wherever the providence of God casts us, we should desire and try to be useful; and when we cannot do the good we would, we must be ready to do…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 17rose up to help: Moses, now in a foreign land, still could not ignore oppression. He was, by nature, a rescuer.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 16-2216-22. the priest of Midian--or, "prince of Midian." As the officers were usually conjoined, he was the ruler also of the people called Cushites or Ethiopians, and like many other chiefs of pastoral people in that early age, he still retained the faith and worship of the true God. seven daughters--were shepherdesses to whom Moses was favorably introduced by an act of courtesy and courage in protecting them from the rude shepherds of some neighboring tribe…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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