EXODUS CHAPTER 3 Moses keeping Jethro's flock, cometh to mount Horeb, Exodus 3:1. There God appears to him in a burning bush, Exodus 3:2. Moses beholds it, Exodus 3:3. God calls to him out of the burning bush, Exodus 3:4; cautions him what to do, Exodus 3:5,6. God seeth their afflictions, Exodus 3:7; promises them a happy deliverance, Exodus 3:8; sends Moses to Pharaoh, Exodus 3:10. He desires to be excused because unworthy, Exodus 3:11. God encourages him, Exodus 3:12, and directs him what to say to the children of Israel, Exodus 3:13,14; makes his name known to Moses, Exodus 3:15; commands him to gather the elders of Israel, Exodus 3:16; and what he was to say to them, Exodus 3:17; likewise to Pharaoh, Exodus 3:18. Pharaoh's obstinacy, Exodus 3:19. God threatens the Egyptians, Exodus 3:20; and tells Moses with what plenty the Israelites should depart, Exodus 3:21,22. 1401 Jethro was either the same with Reuel, or his son, who, upon his father's death, succeeded into his office. See Exodus 2:18. To the backside of the desert, to its innermost parts, which were behind Jethro's habitation, and the former pastures, whither he went for fresh pastures. The mountain of God; so called, either as a high or eminent mountain; or from the vision of God here following; see Acts 7:30; or by anticipation, from God's glorious appearance there, and giving the law from thence, Exodus 18:5, Exodus 19:3: see also 1 Kings 19:8. Horeb, called also Sinai, Exodus 19:1 Acts 7:30. Or Horeb was the name of the whole tract or row of mountains, and Sinai the name of that particular mountain where this vision happened, and the law was delivered. Or Horeb and Sinai were two several tops of the same mountain.
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Exodus 3:1
1 Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.