Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Exodus 2:24
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
24. their groaning ] Exo 6:5 a (P).
and God remembered ] cf. Exo 6:5 b; also Gen 8:1; Gen 19:29 (all P).
his covenant with Abraham, &c.] The covenant concluded with Abraham and Isaac (Gen 17:7-8; Gen 17:19 P), and implicitly with Jacob (Gen 35:12 P), which in Exo 6:4-5 b also is represented by P as the motive for the deliverance of Israel from Egypt: cf. p. 176.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Remembered – This means that God was moved by their prayers to give effect to the covenant, of which an essential condition was the faith and contrition involved in the act of supplication. The whole history of Israel is foreshadowed in these words: God heard, remembered, looked upon, and knew them. It evidently indicates the beginning of a crisis marked by a personal intervention of God.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 24. God remembered his covenant] God’s covenant is God’s engagement; he had promised to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give their posterity a land flowing with milk and honey, &c. They are now under the most oppressive bondage, and this was the most proper time for God to show them his mercy and power in fulfilling his promise. This is all that is meant by God’s remembering his covenant, for it was now that he began to give it its effect.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
And God heard their groaning,…. The petitions they put up to him with groans and cries:
and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob; that he would bring their seed out of a land not theirs, in which they were strangers, and were afflicted, into the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
24, 25 . God heard remembered looked had respect Through all those generations of heart-break, to the eye and ear of flesh God had seemed deaf, dumb, dead; yet all the while he remembered his covenant, saw each tear, heard each groan, knew his children with all the energy of love . In this graphic and emphatic way does the sacred writer picture our Father, and help every sufferer everywhere to get within the everlasting arms .
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Observe the process of grace. God’s covenant is the cause of divine mercy: God remembers this: God hears the oppressed cry: God looks upon his people: God hath respect thereto. Reader! never lose sight of this, nor of that assurance connected with it: 2Ch 16:9 .
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Exo 2:24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Ver. 24. God heard their groaning. ] Yea, their breathing. Lam 3:56 Men’s very misery cries to God, as Hagar’s did.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
groaning. Hebrew. na’ak, denoting heaviest affliction. Note the Figure of speech Synonymia: heard. . . remembered. . . looked . . . had respect. Anaphora: with . . . with . . . with; see note, Gen 50:24, not yet revealed to them as Jehovah. Figure of speech Repetitio. App-6. God, repeated five times. Also the Figure of speech Anthropopatheia (App-6).
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
God heard: Exo 6:5, Jdg 2:18, Neh 9:27, Neh 9:28, Psa 22:5, Psa 22:24, Psa 79:11, Psa 102:20, Psa 138:3
remembered: Gen 15:14-18, Gen 17:7, Gen 18:18, Gen 26:3, Gen 26:24, Gen 28:12-14, Gen 32:28, Gen 46:2-4, Neh 9:8, Neh 9:9, Psa 105:6-13, Psa 105:42, Psa 106:45, Luk 1:72, Luk 1:73
Reciprocal: Gen 8:1 – God remembered Gen 16:11 – hath Gen 17:21 – my Exo 22:27 – when he crieth Lev 26:42 – will I Lev 26:45 – for their Num 20:16 – we cried 1Sa 12:8 – cried 2Sa 16:12 – the Lord 2Ki 13:23 – had respect Job 24:12 – groan Job 34:28 – they Psa 12:5 – oppression Psa 44:24 – forgettest Psa 94:5 – afflict Psa 107:10 – bound Psa 107:39 – oppression Psa 115:12 – hath Psa 132:1 – remember Ecc 4:1 – and considered Isa 5:7 – a cry Isa 52:5 – make Isa 58:3 – labours Jer 14:2 – the cry Eze 16:4 – for Eze 16:6 – and saw Jam 5:4 – the cries
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Exo 2:24-25. And God heard their groaning That is, he made it to appear that he took notice of their complaints. The groans of the oppressed cry loud in the ears of the righteous God, to whom vengeance belongs; especially the groans of Gods children, the burdens they groan under, and the blessings they groan after. And God remembered his covenant
Which he seemed to have forgotten, but really is ever mindful of. This God had an eye to, and not to any merit of theirs, in what he did for them. And God looked upon the children of Israel Moses looked upon them and pitied them, but now God looked upon them and helped them. And God had respect unto them A favourable respect to them as his own. The frequent repetition of the name of God intimates that now we are to expect something great. His eyes, which run to and fro through the earth, are now fixed on Israel, to show himself strong, to show himself a God in their behalf.