Exodus 1:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses. ”

Exodus 1:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Made them houses - i. e. they married Hebrews and became mothers in Israel. The expression is proverbial. See the margin reference.
Exodus 1:21 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he (h) made them houses. (h) That is, God increased the families of the Israelites by their means.
Exodus 1:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 1:15-22 E ( Exodus 1:20 b J). Attempt to Destroy Male Children. From another source we learn of two more ineffectual measures to restrict population. The two midwives, whose names tr...
Exodus 1:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

houses . families. or progeny. Figure of speech Metonymy (of Subject). App-6.
Exodus 1:21 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

21. He made them houses. (23) It is not at all my opinion that this should be expounded as referring to the women, and I am surprised that many interpreters have been grossly mistaken on so...
Exodus 1:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses. He made them houses - Dr. Shuckford thinks that there is something wrong both in the punctuation and translation of thi...
Exodus 1:21 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

He made them houses— He made them families, i.e . in the obvious sense of the words, he recompensed their piety, virtue, and courage, by making them prosperous, and their families considerable in...
Exodus 1:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty. Therefore God dealt well with the midwives ... This represents God as rewarding them for telling...
Exodus 1:21 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Oppression of the Israelites 5. Seventy souls] Jacob himself is included in the number: cp. Genesis 46:8-27 . Of the seventy, sixty-eight were males. If to the direct descendants of Jacob we add...
Exodus 1:21 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

He made them houses. — God rewarded those who had showed tenderness to young children, by giving them children of their own, who grew up, and became in their turn fathers and mothers of families. T...
Exodus 1:21 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE OPPRESSION. Exodus 1:7-22 . At the beginning of the history of Israel we find a prosperous race. It was indeed their growing importance, and chiefly their vast numerical increase, which exci...
Exodus 1:21 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

God Protects Hebrew Babes from Pharaoh's Decree Exodus 1:15-22 Egypt's second stroke of policy was to begin with the children. Pharaoh and Herod set us an example in turning their attention t...
Exodus 1:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The first word of Exodus, "Now," might with equal accuracy be rendered "And." Either word serves to suggest continuity. The story of Genesis is taken up in Exodus. It begins by recording the prolific...
Exodus 1:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Some have thought that the houses here spoken of, which God is said to have built for them, means that they were incorporated and built up in the faith of God's people. Psalms 107:41 .
Exodus 1:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God ,.... And regarded his command, and not that of the king, though they risked his displeasure, and their lives: that he made them houses ; which...
Exodus 1:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses. Ver. 21. Because the midwives feared God. ] There is no necessity of granting that the midwives told the king a li...
Exodus 1:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

God dealt well with the midwives he made them houses He blessed them in kind: for as they kept up Israel's houses or families, so God, in recompense, built them up into families, blessed their chi...
Exodus 1:21 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

ISRAEL MULTIPLIED (vs.1-7) The first five verses of Exodus indicate its continuity with the book of Genesis, for they confirm what is written in more detail in Genesis 46:8-27 . This small numbe...
Exodus 1:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

15 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah: 16 And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the...
Exodus 1:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

i.e. God greatly increased their families both in children and posterity, and in wealth, and other outward blessings. So this phrase is used Genesis 30:30 Deuteronomy 25:9 1 Samuel 2:35 1 Kin...
Exodus 1:21 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Pharaoh Seeks To Destroy Israel Through Its Midwives ( Exodus 1:15-22 ). a The king of Egypt calls on the Hebrew midwives who are told at births to slay sons and let the daughters live ( Exodus...
Exodus 1:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 1:15 . Hebrew midwives] It is curious, though it may not throw light on the precise relation in which these women stood to the Hebrew women, that their names should be of...
Exodus 1:21 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Exodus 1:1 . The children of Israel. Some think we should read here, the sons of Israel. Paul, Galatians 4:3 ; Galatians 4:5 , makes a distinction between children and sons, in the words νηπιοι...
Exodus 1:21 - The Biblical Illustrator

The children of Israel were fruitful The increase of the Church I. Notwithstanding the removal of its chief officer ( Exodus 1:6 ). Joseph dead; his influence gone; his counsel inaccessible. T...
Exodus 1:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Exodus 1:15-2 Some time—say five or six years—having elapsed and the Pharaoh's first plan having manifestly failed, it was necessary for him either to give up his purpose, or to...
Exodus 1:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Command to Kill all the Male Children
Exodus 1:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

made them. 1 Samuel 2:35 1 Samuel 25:28 2 Samuel 7:11-13 2 Samuel 7:27-29 1 Kings 2:24 1 Kings 11:38 Psalms 37:3 Psalms 127:1 Psalms 127:3 Proverbs 24:3 Ecclesiastes 8:12 Jerem...

Exodus 1:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Exodus 1:21 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Exodus 1:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 1:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Exodus 1:21 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 1:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Exodus 1:21 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Exodus 1:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Exodus 1:21 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 1:21 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Exodus 1:21 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Exodus 1:21 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Exodus 1:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Exodus 1:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Exodus 1:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Exodus 1:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Exodus 1:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Exodus 1:21 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 1:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Exodus 1:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Exodus 1:21 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 1:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Exodus 1:21 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Exodus 1:21 - The Biblical Illustrator

Exodus 1:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Exodus 1:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Exodus 1:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge