Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Exodus 6:4
And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.
4. I also established ] without ‘have,’ the reference being to Gen 17:7. Established means ‘set up,’ ‘concluded,’ not ‘gave effect to’: to ‘establish a covenant’ is a standing expression in P, Gen 6:18; Gen 9:9; Gen 9:11; Gen 9:17; Gen 17:7; Gen 17:19; Gen 17:21 (elsewhere, in the same sense, only Eze 16:60; Eze 16:62). P never uses the ordinary Heb. expression, ‘ cut a covenant’ (Exo 23:32, Exo 24:8, Exo 34:19, &c.).
my covenant ] The covenant concluded with Abraham in Gen 17:1-2; Gen 17:7-8 (P) that, if Abraham walked blamelessly before God, He would multiply him, be a God to him and his seed after him, and give to his descendants the land of their sojournings, Canaan (cf. Gen 28:4; Gen 35:12, both also P).
the land of their sojournings ] Gen 17:8; Gen 23:4; also Gen 36:7; Gen 37:1 (all P), Gen 20:38 .
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Exo 6:4-5
I have also established My covenant with them.
A true pattern of gospel redemption
I. That gospel redemption comes to the soul after a period of moral bondage and distress.
1. It finds the soul in a condition of moral bondage. Whom the Egyptians keep in bondage. It is the bondage of sin. It has been long continued, through many years of our lives. It has been degrading. It has been fruitless to ourselves. Almost hopeless.
2. It finds the soul in a condition of anxious grief. I have also heard the groaning, etc. Tears of repentance. Cries for pardon.
3. It is generally preceded by some Christian agency. Aim of ministry to awaken desire for moral freedom.
II. That gospel redemption comes to the soul by virtue of a Divine covenant and promise. I have remembered, etc.
1. God through Christ has made a covenant of salvation with all who trust in the atonement.
2. By virtue of this covenant, all contrite and believing souls may find rest in and pardon from God.
3. This covenant is–
(1) Unique.
(2) Merciful.
(3) Of long standing.
III. That gospel redemption brings the soul into holy and responsible relationship to God. And I will take you to Me for a people, and I will be to you a God (Exo 6:7).
1. It constitutes the soul a Divine possession
2. It places the soul under the peculiar guardianship of the Infinite.
IV. That gospel redemption leads the faithful into the inheritance of Canaan. What a change! All things are yours. (J. S. Exell, M. A.)
Reasons for human redemption
I. The burden of man is a reason for human redemption. No human hand, but Christ alone, can remove it.
II. The Lordship of Christ is a reason for human redemption. He only could fulfil violated law; forgive past neglect; and enable us to keep it in future.
III. The covenant of God is a reason for human redemption. (J. S. Exell, M. A.)
Gods covenant to His people
1. Stated.
2. Settled.
3. Kept.
4. Happy.
5. Restful.
Fuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell
Verse 4. I have also established my covenant] I have now fully purposed to give present effect to all my engagements with your fathers, in behalf of their posterity.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
And I have also established my covenant with them,…. With Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and with their posterity, so that it is sure and firm, and shall never be made null and void:
to give them the land of Canaan; or to their children, which were as themselves:
the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers; not being in actual possession of any part of it, but lived as pilgrims and strangers in it, as their posterity now did in another land not theirs; see Heb 11:9.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
4. And I have also established my covenant. The hope of the deliverance which He had formerly promised, and which the Patriarchs had expected, He confirms by alluding to the covenant, as I have just above said; and the particle גם, gam, which is twice repeated, is, in the first case, causal, in the second, illative, as much as to say, “Since I covenanted with your fathers, therefore I have now determined to bring you into the land of Canaan;” unless it be preferred to resolve it thus, “I, the same who established the covenant with your fathers, now also have heard your groaning.” Moreover, because the covenant is founded on free grace, God commands the redemption to be expected as much from His good pleasure as from His steadfastness. But He again commends the faith of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because they patiently consented to be strangers and pilgrims in the land of Canaan, which by the covenant of God was their own lawful inheritance. For it was a proof of their exemplary virtue, to be wanderers all their lives, and not to have a single corner to put their foot upon, unless what was granted them by sufferance for the erection of their tents, being at the mercy of their neighbors; as natives are always apt to despise strangers. And by this comparison the slowness of heart and ingratitude of their posterity is the more condemned, if they refuse to take possession of this land, which was so earnestly desired by their holy fathers, and at the sight of which alone they counted themselves blessed, although they were only sojourners there.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(4) My covenant.See Gen. 15:18-21; Gen. 17:7-8; Gen. 26:3-4; Gen. 35:12. &c.
The land of Canaan.Canaan proper was the tract between Sidon and Gaza (Gen. 10:19), which is now counted as Palestine ; but the region promised to Abraham, and included in a larger sense of the word Canaan, was very much more extensive, reaching as it did from the Nile to the Euphrates (Gen. 15:18). This vast territory was actually possessed by Israel under David and Solomon (1Ki. 4:21-24).
The land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.Heb., The land of their sojournings, wherein they sojourned. (Comp. Gen. 17:8; Gen. 23:4; Gen. 28:4.) Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were occupants of Canaan merely by sufferance: they were allowed to dwell in it because it was not half peopled; but the ownership was recognised as belonging to the Canaanite nations, Hittites and others (Gen. 20:15; Gen. 23:3-20, &c).
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Gen 38:4Gen 38:4 ; 2Sa 23:5 .
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Exo 6:4 And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.
Ver. 4. To give them the land of Canaan. ] And a better thing with it, the kingdom of heaven. Heb 11:10 ; Heb 11:16
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
I have. Note the three repetitions in verses: Exo 6:4, Exo 6:5. See App-10.
them = individually (see on Gen 50:24). This is why this revelation of Jehovah as “the God of the living” ensures their resurrection. See Exo 3:6, and compare Deu 11:2.
pilgrimage. They “sojourned “in Canaan, and they “dwelt” in Egypt.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
established: Gen 6:18, Gen 15:18, Gen 17:7, Gen 17:8, Gen 17:13, Gen 28:4, 2Sa 23:5, Isa 55:3
the land of their: Gen 15:13, Gen 17:8, Gen 23:4, Gen 26:3, Psa 105:12, Act 7:5
Reciprocal: Gen 47:9 – have not Lev 26:9 – establish