In Exodus chapter two, verse fifteen, the land of Midian is a place in the northwest Arabian Peninsula where Moses was there for forty years. Why did he stay there for that period? Moses attempts to break up a fight between two Hebrews and learn that his murder of a violent Egyptian was not a …
In Exodus chapter two, verse twelve, Moses’ willingness to identify with God’s people and defend the Hebrews facing oppression demonstrated his faith in God. Moses rejected the passing pleasures of sin for the honor of suffering for God and his people. The phrase, “He looked this way and that,” is the modern equivalent of the …
Moses was a goodly child from a man of the House of Levi and daughter of Levi: nursed by Pharoah’s daughter by a Hebrew handmaid, which is his mother. He later grew up and moved away from Egypt to Midian. Moses was Jewish and well aware of it. He was an adoptive son of the …
The “son” here referred to is Moses. His birth, escape from death, and all the events of his youth were under the direction of God so that he might deliver Israel from bondage. All believers need to know that God also works in their lives using appropriate means to accomplish His will. The problem, however, …
In Exodus chapter one, verse eleven, the new king of Egypt set taskmasters over the Israelites. These men managed the slave work and supervised the slave labor under Pharoah’s command. They afflicted the Israelites and oppressed them “with heavy burdens,” which could be hard labor of any kind. The building of Pithom and Raamses was …
In Exodus chapter one, verse eight, A new king Pharaoh arose in Egypt who “did not know Joseph.” The implication is that previous Pharaoh respected Joseph’s role in saving their nation, while this new ruler had no knowledge nor concern for this history. Whoever this specific ruler was, he saw the Hebrew people as a …
In Exodus chapter one, verse seven, God promises that the Israelites would multiply abundantly from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, grow to such a magnitude that they numbered about six hundred thousand men besides women and children. In contrast with the first generation of Jacob’s family, which numbered seventy people, the Israelites were now “fruitful and …
At the beginning of Genesis chapter forty-one, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, experiences two troubling and prophetic dreams. The first dream depicts seven beautiful, healthy cows coming out of the Nile River to feed on the grass. Then seven famished, emaciated cows come up after them and devour them. The second dream is similar. Pharaoh sees …
In Genesis chapter thirty-seven, verse two, Joseph, at the age of seventeen, is deeply loved by his father Jacob and deeply resented by his ten older brothers. Thanks to the favoritism by Joseph’s dad, he receives a princely robe, which later he reports dreams that predict his family one day bow before him. On the …
Judah, Er’s father, was the fourth of six sons Leah gave birth to with Jacob. At the beginning of Genesis, chapter thirty-eight, he meets or reconnects with an Adullamite friend named Hirah. Defying this directive, Judah takes a Canaanite woman, the daughter of a man named Shua, presumably as his wife. Then he takes a …
