Exodus 12:40 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years. ”

• Exodus 12:40 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Who dwelt - Read, which they sojourned. The obvious intention of Moses is to state the duration of the sojourn in Egypt.

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• Exodus 12:40 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Exodus 12:37 - Exodus 18. From Egypt to Sinai. Exodus 12:37-49 J. The Exodus. From Rameses ( Exodus 1:11 b *) the first stage of the journey took the people 10 miles W. to Succoth (Eg....

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• Exodus 12:40 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  sojourning . Commenced with Genesis 12 . Quite. different subject from the dwelling in Egypt. See App-50. Israel . Figure of speech Synecdoche (of the Part), App-6, by which one man's name, I...

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• Exodus 12:40 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  40. Now the sojourning of the children of Israel. The beginning of this period is not reckoned from the coming down of Jacob, for it is very clear from other passages, that, from the time th...

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• Exodus 12:40 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years. Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, etc. - The statement in this verse is allowed on a...

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• Exodus 12:40 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  The sojourning of the children of Israel, &c.— That the children or descendants of Israel did not sojourn or dwell four hundred and thirty years in Egypt, may be easily and has been frequently...

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• Exodus 12:40 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years. Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, х uwmowshab ( H4186...

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• Exodus 12:40 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Institution of the Passover. The Tenth Plague, and the Departure of Israel 1. In the land of Egypt] These words suggest that what follows was written independently of the foregoing narrative,...

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• Exodus 12:40 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  THE DEPARTURE OF ISRAEL, THEIR NUMBERS, AND THE TIME OF THE EGYPTIAN SOJOURN. (37-41) The two principal statements of this passage are — (1) that the sojourn of the Israelites in Egypt lasted four...

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• Exodus 12:40 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE EXODUS. Exodus 12:37-42 . The children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth. Already, at the outset of their journey, controversy has had much to say about their route. Much ingenuity...

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• Exodus 12:40 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Israel Led out of Egypt Exodus 12:37-51 The 600,000 were males above 20 years of age, Numbers 1:3-43 . This would make the entire body not less than 2,000,000 of people of all ages. Succoth wa...

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• Exodus 12:40 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  While the subjects necessarily intermingle at this point, we turn from the contemplation of the judgments of Jehovah in dealing with Pharaoh to that of deliverance in His dealings with Israel. As the...

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• Exodus 12:40 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  I beg the Reader to remark with me God's faithfulness. Not an hour beyond the time predicted to Abraham, Genesis 15:13 . There it is said, four hundred years, and here four hundred and thirty: but i...

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• Exodus 12:40 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt ,.... The Septuagint version adds, "and in the land of Canaan"; and the Samaritan version is, "the sojourning of the children of Isr...

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• Exodus 12:40 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, [was] four hundred and thirty years. Ver. 40. Was four hundred and thirty years, ] sc., From the time that Abraham began to sojour...

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• Exodus 12:40 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Who dwelt in Egypt Or sojourned. We must observe, that it is not said, The sojourning of the children of Israel in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years; but the sojourning of the children of I...

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• Exodus 12:40 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  THE PASSOVER FEAST (vs.1-28) The time finally arrives for the Lord to accomplish a work of amazing power in Egypt in the deliverance of a nation numbering over two million, from the bondage of Eg...

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• Exodus 12:40 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Departure of the Israelites. B. C. 1491.       37 And the children of Israel journeyed from...

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• Exodus 12:40 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  It is plain that those years are to be computed from the first promise made to Abraham, Genesis 12:1,2 , to the giving of the law, from Galatians 3:17 , where this is affirmed. And although it...

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• Exodus 12:40 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The First Stages of Their Journey ( Exodus 12:37 to Exodus 13:22 ). The journey from Egypt now commencing we are informed of the quantity of those leaving and the connection backwards with when...

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• Exodus 12:40 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 12:40-42 THE PILGRIM CONDITION OF GODLY SOULS IN THE PRESENT LIFE I. That the pilgrim condition of godly souls in this life often involves long-contin...

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• Exodus 12:40 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Exodus 12:30-41 (with Matthew 2:15 ) I. We cannot treat the Exodus as an isolated fact in history. Egypt is the type of the cunning, careless, wanton world, out of which in all ages God is cal...

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• Exodus 12:40 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Exodus 12:2 . The first month of the year. This is called Abib, Exodus 13:4 ; and Nisan, Esther 3:7 . It was before the seventh month, hence the earth is supposed to have been created in Septemb...

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• Exodus 12:40 - The Biblical Illustrator

  All the hosts of the Lord went out. The Exodus I. We cannot treat the Exodus as an isolated fact in history. Egypt is the type of the cunning, careless, wanton world, out of which in all ages G...

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• Exodus 12:40 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION The narrative of the departure from Egypt is followed, not unnaturally, by a notification of the length of the sojourn, which is declared to have been a space of four hundred and thir...

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• Exodus 12:40 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Now the sojourning of the children of Israel who dwelt in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years, four long or ten short generations as they were then reckoned.

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• Exodus 12:40 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  The Samaritan Pentateuch reads, 'Now the sojourning of the Acts 13:17 Hebrews 11:9 for hundred Genesis 12:1-3 Genesis 15:13 Acts 7:6 Galatians 3:16 Galatians 3:17

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• Exodus 12:40 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  It was just four hundred and thirty years from the promise made to Abraham (as the Apostle explains it, Galatians 3:17 ,) at his first coming into Canaan, during all which time the Hebrews, were s...

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