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John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Exodus
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 275,869 words · 607 reading sections
Exodus 11:2
Exodus 11:2 Ver. 2. Speak now in the ears of the people,.... This cannot be understood of the whole body of the people being gathered together, but of some of the principal ones, who should communicate it to others, and so from one to another, until all the heads and masters of families became acquainted with it: and…
222 wordsSECTION 182Exodus 11:3
Exodus 11:3 Ver. 3. And the Lord gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians,.... So that they freely and willingly lent them the things they asked of them; which seems to be said by way of anticipation, for this was not done until the following plague was inflicted, see Ex 12:35, moreover, the man Moses was…
226 wordsSECTION 183Exodus 11:4
Exodus 11:4 Ver. 4. And Moses said,.... To Pharaoh before he left him, when he had told him he should see his face no more; for the three preceding verses are to be read in a parenthesis, being placed here by the historian, as giving some light to this last discourse and transaction between Moses and Pharaoh: thus sa…
311 wordsSECTION 184Exodus 11:5
Exodus 11:5 Ver. 5. And all the firstborn in the land of Eygpt shall die,.... By the destroying angel inflicting a disease upon them, as Josephus says {q}, very probably the pestilence; however, it was sudden and immediate death, and which was universal, reaching to all the firstborn that were in the families of the E…
554 wordsSECTION 185Exodus 11:6
Exodus 11:6 Ver. 6. And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt,.... Of parents for the loss of their firstborn sons, their heirs, the support and glory of their families; children for the loss of their elder brethren; and servants for the loss of the prime and principal in their masters' houses; a…
162 wordsSECTION 186Exodus 11:7
Exodus 11:7 Ver. 7. But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast,.... That is, as no hurt should be done to man or beast among them, to the firstborn of either of them, so there would be no noise or cry in their dwellings, but the profoundest silence, stillness, and q…
324 wordsSECTION 187Exodus 11:8
Exodus 11:8 Ver. 8. And all these thy servants,.... Pharaoh's nobles, ministers, courtiers and counsellors, who were then in his presence, and stood about him, to whom Moses pointed: shall come down unto me; from Pharaoh's palace, which might be built on an eminence, to the place where Moses had dwelt during the time…
405 wordsSECTION 188Exodus 11:9
Exodus 11:9 Ver. 9. And the Lord said unto Moses,.... Not at this time when he went out from Pharaoh, but some time before this, for the words may be rendered, "the Lord had said" {x}, for so he had, as is related, Ex 7:3, but the historian makes mention of it here, to show that Moses was not ignorant of the event of …
215 wordsSECTION 189Exodus 11:10
Exodus 11:10 Ver. 10. And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, &c,] Which are related in the preceding chapters: and the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart: one time after another, and yet more and more: so that he would not let the children of Israel go out of his land; until the last plague, the slayin…
81 wordsSECTION 190Exodus 12:1
Exodus 12:1 INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 12 This chapter begins with observing, that the month in which the above wonders were wrought in Egypt, and the following ordinance appointed to the Israelites, should hereafter be reckoned the first month in the year, Ex 12:1 on the tenth day of which a lamb here described was to b…
538 wordsSECTION 191Exodus 12:2
Exodus 12:2 Ver. 2. This month shall be unto you the beginning of months,.... Not only the first, as after expressed, but the chief and principal of them, now famous for their coming out of Egypt in it, and would be more so for the sufferings and death of the Messiah, and redemption by him from sin, Satan, and the wor…
424 wordsSECTION 192Exodus 12:3
Exodus 12:3 Ver. 3. Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel,.... That is, to the elders of the people, and heads of families; unless we can suppose that they had been gradually gathered, and were now gathered together in a body by the direction of Moses, by whom they were assured that their departure was at hand;…
453 wordsSECTION 193Exodus 12:4
Exodus 12:4 Ver. 4. And if the household be too little for the lamb,.... That they cannot eat it up at once; let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; which Josephus {e} says were never fewer than ten, and were often twenty, but no man might feast alone; with which ag…
263 wordsSECTION 194Exodus 12:5
Exodus 12:5 Ver. 5. Your lamb shall be without blemish,.... Without any spot or defect in it. Maimonides {h} reckons no less than fifty blemishes in a creature, anyone of which makes it unfit for sacrifice, see Le 21:21. This lamb was a type of Christ, who is therefore said to be our passover sacrificed for us, 1Co 5:…
347 wordsSECTION 195Exodus 12:6
Exodus 12:6 Ver. 6. And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month,.... In their houses; this may denote the preservation of Christ in his infancy, and to the appointed time of his sufferings and death; and it is remarkable, that on this very day, the tenth of Nisan, four days before the passover, …
576 wordsSECTION 196Exodus 12:7
Exodus 12:7 Ver. 7. And they shall take of the blood,.... Of the lamb, being received into a basin, Ex 12:22: and strike it on the two side posts; with a bunch of hyssop dipped into it: and on the upper doorpost of the houses, wherein they shall eat it; but not on the posts of those houses, the inhabitants of which …
378 wordsSECTION 197Exodus 12:8
Exodus 12:8 Ver. 8. And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire,.... The night of the fourteenth of Nisan; and as the Jews reckoned their days from the evening preceding, this must be the beginning of the fifteenth day, which being observed, will serve to reconcile some passages relating to this ordina…
562 wordsSECTION 198Exodus 12:9
Exodus 12:9 Ver. 9. Eat not of it raw,.... Not roasted enough; and so Jarchi says, that what is not sufficiently roasted, or is not thoroughly and down roasted, is in the Arabic language called an {u}, the word here used; and so Maimonides {w} says it signifies flesh, on which the fire begins to operate, and is roaste…
722 wordsSECTION 199Exodus 12:10
Exodus 12:10 Ver. 10. And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning,.... It was to be all ate up; a whole Christ is to be received and fed upon by faith; Christ in both his natures, divine and human, united in his person, in all his offices of prophet, priest, and King, and with all the benefits and blessing…
212 wordsSECTION 200Exodus 12:11
Exodus 12:11 Ver. 11. And thus shall ye eat it,.... After the following manner, in the habit and posture described: the Targum of Jonathan adds, "at this time, and not in ages following;'' for these rites were peculiar to the passover in Egypt, and not to be observed in later times: with your loins girded; that is,…
435 wordsSECTION 201Exodus 12:12
Exodus 12:12 Ver. 12. For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night,..... Which must be understood consistent with his omnipresence, and of the manifestation of his powerful presence, or of the exertion of his mighty power in the following event: and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man …
9,409 wordsSECTION 202Exodus 13:1
Exodus 13:1 INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 13 This chapter begins with an order to sanctify or set apart the firstborn of man and beast to the Lord, Ex 13:1 and the people of Israel are charged to keep the feast of unleavened bread in its season, from year to year, when they came into the land of Canaan, the reason of which …
299 wordsSECTION 203Exodus 13:2
Exodus 13:2 Ver. 2. Sanctify unto me all the firstborn,.... That is, of males, as the Targum of Jonathan adds, for those, and not females, were only either sacrificed or redeemed, see Ex 13:12, and this sanctification of them to the Lord signifies the separation or devoting of them to the service of God; if the firstb…
544 wordsSECTION 204Exodus 13:3
Exodus 13:3 Ver. 3. And Moses said unto the people,.... After the Lord had spoken to him, and said the above things: remember this day in which ye came out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; or "of servants" {x} where they had been servants to the Egyptians, by whom they had been made to serve with rigour, and th…
378 wordsSECTION 205Exodus 13:4
Exodus 13:4 Ver. 4. This day came ye out,.... Out of Egypt, on the fifteenth of Nisan, as the Targum of Jonathan: in the month Abib; which signifies an ear of corn, because in this month barley was in the ear, see Ex 9:31, the Syriac version renders it, "in the month of flowers"; when the flowers were rising up out o…
158 wordsSECTION 206Exodus 13:5
Exodus 13:5 Ver. 5. And it shall be when the Lord shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites,.... Though the whole land was called the land of Canaan, yet there was one tribe or nation of them particularly so called as here, distinct from those that follow: and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, a…
308 wordsSECTION 207Exodus 13:6
Exodus 13:6 Ver. 6. Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread,.... The Jews {y} gather from this place, and from De 16:8, that the obligation to eat unleavened bread lasted no longer than the first night of the seven days, but on the rest it was enough if they abstained from leavened bread, and it was lawful for them…
193 wordsSECTION 208Exodus 13:7
Exodus 13:7 Ver. 7. Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days,.... From the evening of the fourteenth day, to the evening of the twenty first, Ex 12:18, this is very express as before, that not only they were to abstain from leaven, but that they were obliged to eat unleavened bread; and as for the cakes of eggs and …
324 wordsSECTION 209Exodus 13:8
Exodus 13:8 Ver. 8. And thou shall show thy son in that day,.... On the first of the days of the feast of unleavened bread, the reason of eating it; and this is to be shown not to a son or single child only, but by parents to all their children, sons and daughters, and even unasked, as Maimonides {b} interprets it; an…
152 wordsSECTION 210Exodus 13:9
Exodus 13:9 Ver. 9. And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes,.... These are not the words of God or of Moses to the children of Israel, but of an lsraelitish parent to his son, telling him that this feast of unleavened bread would serve the same purpose to refresh his…
244 wordsSECTION 211Exodus 13:10
Exodus 13:10 Ver. 10. Thou shall therefore keep the ordinance in his season,.... Not the ordinance of the phylacteries, as the Targum of Jonathan, but the ordinance of unleavened bread: from year to year; every year successively, so long as in force, even unto the coming of the Messiah. It is in the Hebrew text, "fro…
113 wordsSECTION 212Exodus 13:11
Exodus 13:11 Ver. 11. And it shall be when the Lord shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites,.... Put for all the rest of the nations: as he sware unto thee, and to thy fathers, and shall give it thee; to them as they were in their loins, and from thence might certainly conclude it would be given them.…
62 wordsSECTION 213Exodus 13:12
Exodus 13:12 Ver. 12. That thou shalt set apart unto the Lord all that openeth the matrix,.... Or "the womb", as in Ex 13:2, and this phrase, "set apart", explains the word "sanctify" there, and shows that it signifies the separating of such to the use and service of God, causing it to "pass", as the word {d} here use…
226 wordsSECTION 214Exodus 13:13
Exodus 13:13 Ver. 13. And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb,.... Which was given to the priest for it; and according to the Jewish canon {f}, it might be redeemed with that only; "not with a calf, nor with an animal (a goat or a ram, as Bartenora interprets it), nor with a lamb slain, or torn to…
310 wordsSECTION 215Exodus 13:14
Exodus 13:14 Ver. 14. And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come,.... Or "on the morrow" {h}, the day following such a separation of the firstborn of clean creatures, or such a redemption of the firstborn of unclean ones, and of man, or in any later time: saying, what is this? what is the meaning of thi…
132 wordsSECTION 216Exodus 13:15
Exodus 13:15 Ver. 15. And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go,.... Showed great reluctance to it, and with difficulty was prevailed upon to dismiss them:that the Lord slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of men, and the firstborn of beast: which he did in one night, making u…
2,727 wordsSECTION 217Exodus 14:1
Exodus 14:1 INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 14 This chapter begins with directions of God to Moses, to be given to the children of Israel about the course they were to steer in their journey, with the reason thereof, Ex 14:1, which they observing, a report was brought to Pharaoh that they were fled, and this determined him an…
375 wordsSECTION 218Exodus 14:2
Exodus 14:2 Ver. 2. Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn,.... Not return to Egypt, or to the place, or towards the place from whence they came, but turn off, out of the road in which they were; for, as a late traveller says {a}, "there were two roads, through which the Israelites might have been conducte…
860 wordsSECTION 219Exodus 14:3
Exodus 14:3 Ver. 3. For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel,.... The Septuagint version adds, "to his people", his ministers and courtiers, when he hears where they are: they are entangled in the land; have lost their way, and got into places they cannot easily get out of, and are perplexed in their minds, and…
188 wordsSECTION 220Exodus 14:4
Exodus 14:4 Ver. 4. And I will harden Pharaoh's heart,.... Once more, as he had often done: that he shall follow after them: to Pihahiroth, and even into the sea after them: and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; in his wisdom, faithfulness, power, and justice, by the destruction of them: that …
158 wordsSECTION 221Exodus 14:5
Exodus 14:5 Ver. 5. And it was told the king of Egypt,.... By some of the Egyptians, or mixed multitude that went out with Israel, but returned upon their encampment at the Red sea, or by some spies Pharaoh sent with them to observe their motions: the Targums of Jonathan and Jarchi make use of a word which Buxtorf tra…
355 wordsSECTION 222Exodus 14:6
Exodus 14:6 Ver. 6. And he made ready his chariot,.... Which he usually rode in when he went forth to war; for this seems to be a military chariot, and not for show or grandeur; and this was got ready not by himself, as Jarchi, but rather by his orders, as Aben Ezra: and took his people with him; the Greek version re…
83 wordsSECTION 223Exodus 14:7
Exodus 14:7 Ver. 7. And he took six hundred chosen chariots,.... The chief and best he had, war chariots, chariots of iron; perhaps such as had iron scythes to them, to cut down men as they drove along; these were taken partly for quickness of dispatch, that they might be able the sooner to overtake the Israelites, wh…
366 wordsSECTION 224Exodus 14:8
Exodus 14:8 Ver. 8. And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt,.... As he said he would, Ex 14:4, and he pursued after the children of Israel; took their rout in pursuit of them: and the children of Israel went out with an high hand: not once dreaming they should be pursued by Pharaoh as an enemy, when…
143 wordsSECTION 225Exodus 14:9
Exodus 14:9 Ver. 9. But the Egyptians pursued after them,.... When they thought nothing of it, and had no fears about it: all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army; by the latter Aben Ezra understands the foot, as distinguished from the cavalry, the horses and horsemen; and perhaps these,…
91 wordsSECTION 226Exodus 14:10
Exodus 14:10 Ver. 10. And when Pharaoh drew nigh,.... Or "caused to draw nigh" {t}; that is, his army, brought it very near to the camp of the Israelites: the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; in great numbers, with full speed, threatening them with utter destruct…
233 wordsSECTION 227Exodus 14:11
Exodus 14:11 Ver. 11. And they said unto Moses,.... The Targum of Jonathan is, "the ungodly of that generation said unto Moses;'' but it seems rather to be understood of the body of the people in general, and is not to be limited to some particular persons of the worse characters among them: because there were no g…
157 wordsSECTION 228Exodus 14:12
Exodus 14:12 Ver. 12. Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt,.... The thing they suggested to him, and talked with him about while they were in the land of Egypt, before they came out of it, particularly after their service and bondage were made more severe and cruel upon Moses and Aaron's demanding their…
146 wordsSECTION 229Exodus 14:13
Exodus 14:13 Ver. 13. And Moses said unto the people,.... Not in wrath and anger, but very coolly and sedately, agreeably to his character of the meekest man on earth; though what they had said to him was very insulting and provoking: fear ye not; Pharaoh and his numerous host, do not be dismayed at them or possess y…
5,970 wordsSECTION 230Exodus 15:1
Exodus 15:1 INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 15 This chapter contains the song of Moses, and of the children of Israel, on the banks of the Red sea; in which they celebrate their passage through it, the destruction of Pharaoh and his host in it, and the glory of the divine perfections displayed therein, interspersed with proph…
1,118 wordsSECTION 231Exodus 15:2
Exodus 15:2 Ver. 2. The Lord is my strength and song,..... The strength of Moses and the children of Israel against the fears of the Egyptians, and of entrance into the Red sea; who inspired them with courage, and strengthened their faith, neither to fear being destroyed by the one, or drowned in the other; and so in …
1,125 wordsSECTION 232Exodus 15:3
Exodus 15:3 Ver. 3. The Lord is a man of war,.... A "man", which has respect to the future incarnation of Christ, for as yet he was not really man; though it was purposed, covenanted, agreed to, and prophesied of, that he should, as he after was; not a mere man, as appears by the following clause: "a man of war"; or a…
284 wordsSECTION 233Exodus 15:4
Exodus 15:4 Ver. 4. Pharaoh's chariots and his hosts hath he cast into the sea,.... Which was done by the Angel of the Lord, who was Jehovah himself, our Immanuel, and man of war, as appears from Ex 14:17, an emblem of the destruction of antichrist, and all the antichristian states, of which Pharaoh and his host were …
127 wordsSECTION 234Exodus 15:5
Exodus 15:5 Ver. 5. The depths have covered them,.... The depths of the sea covered Pharaoh and his host, so as to be seen no more; and in like manner will mystical Babylon, or antichrist, be destroyed, and be no more found and seen; as likewise the sins of God's people, being cast into the depths of the sea, and cove…
166 wordsSECTION 235Exodus 15:6
Exodus 15:6 Ver. 6. Thy right hand, O Lord, is become glorious in power,.... In bringing the children of Israel out of Egypt, and through the Red sea, and in the destruction of Pharaoh and the Egyptians; and so the right hand of Christ, expressive of his power, he has in and of himself, and is the same with his Father…
172 wordsSECTION 236Exodus 15:7
Exodus 15:7 Ver. 7. And in the greatness of thine excellency,.... Christ has an excellency in him, a greatness of excellency, a superlative one; he has a more excellent name and nature than the angels, being a divine Person; and a more excellent ministry, as man and Mediator, than any of the sons of men, as prophet, p…
287 wordsSECTION 237Exodus 15:8
Exodus 15:8 Ver. 8. And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together,.... From the bottom of the sea, and divided and laid on heaps; and this by a strong east wind, called the blast of the nostrils of the Lord, because as easily brought by him as a man's breath or wind is drawn through his nostrils…
184 wordsSECTION 238Exodus 15:9
Exodus 15:9 Ver. 9. The enemy said,.... That is, Pharaoh, who repented that he had let Israel go; an emblem of Satan, who when the people of God are taken out of his hands is uneasy at it, and seeks to recover them again into his possession; or of antichrist breathing out threatening and slaughter to the saints, the r…
277 wordsSECTION 239Exodus 15:10
Exodus 15:10 Ver. 10. Thou didst blow with thy wind,.... A strong east wind, Ex 14:22 which is the Lord Christ's, who has it in his treasury, holds it in his fists, sends it out as he pleases, and it fulfils his word and will: the sea covered them; which stood up in an heap as a wall to let Israel pass through, and f…
132 wordsSECTION 240Exodus 15:11
Exodus 15:11 Ver. 11. Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the gods?.... For the perfections of his nature, for the blessings of his goodness, and for the works of his hands; and especially for the greatness and excellency of his power, seen in the salvation of his people, and the ruin of their enemies: there is none …
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