Acts 7:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Of the promise; of the fulfilling of the promise, either of the increase of his seed, or of their deliverance out of bondage, for both were promised, Genesis 22:17; though at that very time there were the greatest endeavours to hinder either when God accomplished both.

Acts 7:17

17 But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,