Recent Commentaries

In this chapter we find the announcement of the tenth and final plague of the first born dying (v. 1). Moses probably had no definite idea of how many plagues there would be. God’s patience had run out and His final judgment, death to the first born, was His final plague. For yea …

Soon after the seven days when the water was turned to blood, God told Moses, for the first time, to go to Pharoah and demand that he let the children of Israel go so they may serve the true God (v. 1). This command showed that Israel was in bondage; God wanted them t …

In today’s passage, Moses asks two more questions and makes a statement: (3) What if the people reject me (again) (v. 1). Moses’s last attempt at organized resistance hadn’t gone so well (Exo. 2:11-15). This time he would have the Lord on his side, but what if they people didn’t believe that? The Lord responded to his …

After 40 years of training in the courts of Pharaoh, Moses now is near the end of another 40 years of his life as a shepherd. Leading his father-in-law Jethro’s flock, in search of grasslands, Moses approached Mount Horeb in the desert of Sinai (v. 1). One day as he was out in the desert he saw …

The wilderness of Sin was the perfect place for God to test and shape the character of His people. One month after their departure from Egypt Israel lacked sufficient food, but instead of trusting the Lord they complained (vv. 1-2).

Moses’s parents kept him hidden for three months, but eventually they could hide him no longer. They had to get creative. They placed Moses in a waterproof basket among the reeds by the bank of the Nile River (vv. 1-3). His older sister, Miriam, kept watch from a distance (v. 4) until …

Satan certainly filled King Pharaoh’s heart with a very cruel plan of destroying the children of Israel. One day he called the Hebrew midwives, whose work it was to take care of the new-born babies and their mothers (v. 15). Pharaoh instructed them to kill all the Hebrew baby boys as soon …

Exodus records Israel’s birth as a nation. During their time in Egypt, one Hebrew family of seventy persons rapidly multiplies. This small group of people develops into an infant nation numbering between two and three million who God protects, feeds and nurtures. The key figure in the book …

In today’s passage we find the teaching of discipline by our heavenly Father. There are at least three ways God could deal with us when we sin …

Moses was the mediator (go-between) of the Old Covenant in the giving of the law (Gal. 3;19-20). The mediator of the New Covenant is Jesus Christ, and He is the only mediator (I Tim. 2:50. Jesus Christ is God’s superior Priest. He ministers on the basis of a better covenant (Chap. 8), in a better …