Hebrews 11:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

By faith Moses As if he had said, The parents of Moses believing, when he was a child, that God would make use of him at a future period, for some extraordinary service to his people; hid him three months In their own house, to preserve him from falling a sacrifice to the cruelty of Pharaoh. It appears by this, that both his parents were engaged in the work of concealing him, although his mother only is mentioned, Exodus 2:2; because they saw he was a proper child Greek, ειδον αστειον το παιδιον, they saw the child beautiful; and doubtless through a divine presage of things to come, and not merely from his beauty, believed that God had designed him for some singular usefulness. And they were not afraid of the king's commandment Requiring all Israelitish parents, on pain of death, to give up their male children that they might be thrown into the river. Of Moses's beauty, see note on Acts 7:20.