20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
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20 And God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
20 And God doth good to the midwives, and the people multiply, and are very mighty;
20 And God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied and became very strong.
20 God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.
20 And the blessing of God was on these women: and the people were increased in number and became very strong.
But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.
Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble. The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.
For thou, O God, hast heard my vows: thou hast given me the heritage of those that fear thy name.
For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.
He hath given meat unto them that fear him: he will ever be mindful of his covenant.
He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.
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Commentary on Exodus 1 Matthew Henry Commentary
An Exposition, With Practical Observations, of
The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus
Chapter 1
We have here,
Exd 1:1-7
In these verses we have,
Exd 1:8-14
The land of Egypt here, at length, becomes to Israel a house of bondage, though hitherto it had been a happy shelter and settlement for them. Note, The place of our satisfaction may soon become the place of our affliction, and that may prove the greatest cross to us of which we said, This same shall comfort us. Those may prove our sworn enemies whose parents were our faithful friends; nay, the same persons that loved us may possibly turn to hate us: therefore cease from man, and say not concerning any place on this side heaven, This is my rest for ever. Observe here,
Exd 1:15-22
The Egyptians' indignation at Israel's increase, notwithstanding the many hardships they put upon them, drove them at length to the most barbarous and inhuman methods of suppressing them, by the murder of their children. It was strange that they did not rather pick quarrels with the grown men, against whom they might perhaps find some occasion: to be thus bloody towards the infants, whom all must own to be innocents, was a sin which they had to cloak for. Note,