Tree of Life Version
Exodus 2:24
24God heard their sobbing and remembered His covenant with 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 and he named him Gershom, saying, “I have been an outsider in a foreign land.” 23Now it came about over the course of those many days that the king of Egypt died. Bnei-Yisrael groaned because of their slavery. They cried out and their cry from slavery went up to God. God heard their sobbing and remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 25God saw Bnei-Yisrael, and He 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 6:5Furthermore, I have heard the groaning of Bnei-Yisrael, whom the Egyptians are keeping in bondage. So I have remembered My covenant.
- Judges 2:18Whenever Adonai raised judges up for them, Adonai was with the judge and delivered them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For Adonai was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who oppressed and crushed them.
- Nehemiah 9:27Therefore You delivered them into the hand of their enemies who oppressed them. But in the time of their distress, they cried out to You and You heard from heaven. According to Your great compassion, You gave them deliverers, who rescued them out of the hand of their enemies.
- Psalms 22:5In You our fathers put their trust. They trusted, and You delivered them.
- Psalms 79:11Let the prisoner’s groan come to You. By Your great arm preserve those who are doomed to die.
- Psalms 102:20For He looks down from His holy height, from heaven Adonai gazes on the earth,
- Psalms 138:3On the day I called, You answered me. You made me bold with strength in my soul.
- Genesis 15:14But I am going to judge the nation that they will serve. Afterward they will go out with many possessions.
- Genesis 17:7Yes, I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, in order to be your God and your seed’s God after you.
- Genesis 18:18seeing that Abraham will most certainly become a great and mighty nation and in him all the nations of the earth will be blessed?
- Genesis 26:3Live as an outsider in this land and I will be with you and bless you—for to you and to your seed I give all these lands—and I will confirm my pledge that I swore to Abraham your father.
- Genesis 28:12He dreamed: All of a sudden, there was a stairway set up on the earth and its top reaching to the heavens—and behold, angels of God going up and down on it!
- Genesis 32:28Then He said to him, “What is your name?” “Jacob,” he said.
- Genesis 46:2In visions of the night God said to Israel, “Jacob, Jacob.” “Hineni,” he said.
- Nehemiah 9:8You found his heart faithful before You and made the covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, Hittite, Amorite, Perizzite, Jebusite and the Girgashite to his seed. You have fulfilled Your words, for You are righteous.
- Psalms 105:6O seed of Abraham, His servant, O children 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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