Exodus 2:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children. ”

Exodus 2:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

She had compassion on him - The Egyptians regarded such tenderness as a condition of acceptance on the day of reckoning. In the presence of the Lord of truth each spirit had to answer, “I have no...
Exodus 2:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 2:1 to Exodus 4:31 . Preparation and Call of Moses. Exodus 2:1-10 E. His Birth and Upbringing. If the text can be trusted, we are informed that a man of the house of Levi took (to wif...
Exodus 2:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

the babe wept. Hebrew. babe weeping. compassion. In that tear lay the defeat of the enemy, the preservation of the Nation, the faithfulness of Jehovah's word, the bringing to naught "the wisdom of...
Exodus 2:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And when she had opened it , she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children. She had compassion on him - The sight of...
Exodus 2:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Behold, the babe wept— You have here an instance of the true sublime: nothing can be more concise, yet nothing more picturesque and pathetic. No wonder the heart of the princess was moved, and that...
Exodus 2:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children. When she had opened it - the princess...
Exodus 2:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Birth and Early Life of Moses 1. The names of the father and mother of Moses were Amram and Jochebed respectively (see Exodus 6:20 ). Two children were born to them before Moses. The oldest was a...
Exodus 2:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

When she had opened it. — The princess opened the ark herself, perhaps suspecting what was inside, perhaps out of mere curiosity. The babe (rather, the boy ) wept. Through hunger, or cold, or p...
Exodus 2:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER II. THE RESCUE OF MOSES. Exodus 2:1-10 . We have said that the Old Testament history teems with political wisdom, lessons of permanent instruction for mankind, on the level of this l...
Exodus 2:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Moses Preserved by Pharaoh's Daughter Exodus 2:1-10 When matters had reached their worst in respect to Israel's condition, God was preparing a deliverer. The child was more than ordinarily beau...
Exodus 2:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Here begins the story of Moses. When Pharaoh was beginning to take active steps to oppress the people, God brought to birth the man who was to break Egypt's power. A mother's love is seen scheming fo...
Exodus 2:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Reader! while you admire and adore the goodness of God, in thus forming our nature with those unconscious pleas for mercy which fail not to operate upon all minds, more or less: do not forget what th...
Exodus 2:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And when she had opened it ,.... The ark, for it was shut or covered over, though doubtless there were some apertures for respiration: she saw the child [in it], and, behold, the babe wept ; and w...
Exodus 2:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And when she had opened [it], she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This [is one] of the Hebrews' children. Ver. 6. One of the Hebrews' children.]...
Exodus 2:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And the daughter of Pharaoh came Providence brings no less a person than Pharaoh's daughter just at that juncture, guides her to the place where this poor infant lay, inclines her heart to pity it,...
Exodus 2:6 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

THE BIRTH AND PROTECTION OF MOSES (vs.1-10) God's hand of overruling power and grace is seen beautifully in this chapter. There is nothing spectacular, but an incident takes place that would be n...
Exodus 2:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Deliverance of Moses. B. C. 1571. 5 And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash...
Exodus 2:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

This she might very probably guess, both from the circumstances in which she found him, and from the singular fairness and beauty of the child, far differing from the Egyptian hue; and she might cert...
Exodus 2:6 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Birth of Moses ( Exodus 2:1-10 ). It is noteworthy that out of this dreadful period God produced his man for that hour. For in the midst of the bloodbath and the despair a child was born, who...
Exodus 2:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 2:6 . She saw the child] This verse is surpassingly delightful for simple vividness, when rendered in oriental fashion: “And she opens, and beholds him—even the child, and...
Exodus 2:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Exodus 2:1 . Took to wife. Amram married Jochebed, his father's sister, as in Exodus 6:20 ; that is, as the scriptures often afford example, his father's relation. But doubts may be entertained o...
Exodus 2:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

This is one of the Hebrews’ children. The princess and the orphan I. The claims of the orphan 1. The first claim on her compassion was the claim of infancy. “She saw the child.” That sentenc...
Exodus 2:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION. Exodus 2:1-2 . THE BIRTH, ESCAPE, AND EDUCATION OF MOSES . Some years before the Pharaoh issued his edict for the general destruction of the Hebrew male children, Amram of the tri...
Exodus 2:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Moses adopted by Pharaoh's daughter
Exodus 2:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

she had compassion. 1 Kings 8:50 Nehemiah 1:11 Psalms 106:46 Proverbs 21:1 Acts 7:21 1 Peter 3:8
Exodus 2:6 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Child Moses Exodus 2:1-10 INTRODUCTORY WORDS "God works in a mysterious way His wonders to perform." As this study opens, we find the Children of Israel in dire distress because of the rig...

Exodus 2:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Exodus 2:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 2:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Exodus 2:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Exodus 2:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Exodus 2:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Exodus 2:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 2:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Exodus 2:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Exodus 2:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Exodus 2:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Exodus 2:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Exodus 2:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Exodus 2:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Exodus 2:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Exodus 2:6 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 2:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Exodus 2:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Exodus 2:6 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 2:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Exodus 2:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Exodus 2:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

Exodus 2:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Exodus 2:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Exodus 2:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 2:6 - Wells of Living Water Commentary