Exodus 2:23 BSB — MannaFest

Exodus 2:23

After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And it came to pass in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.

KJV

And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.

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Commentary

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Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

In process of time - Nearly forty years Act 7:30. This verse marks the beginning of another section. We now enter at once upon the history of the Exodus. Their cry came up unto God - This statement, taken in connection with the two following verses, proves that the Israelites retained their faith in the God of their Fathers. The divine name, “God,” אלהים 'ĕlohı̂ym, is chosen because it was that which the Israelites must have used in their cry for help, that under which the covenant had been ratified with the Patriarchs (compare Jas 5:4).

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Original language & word study

19 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיְהִי֩	vay.Hi	and it was	H1961 →
בַיָּמִ֨ים	vai.ya.Mim	in the days	H3117 →
הָֽרַבִּ֜ים	ha.ra.Bim	<the> many	H7227 →
הָהֵ֗ם	ha.Hem	<the> those	H1992 →
וַיָּ֙מָת֙	vai.Ya.mot	and he died	H4191 →
מֶ֣לֶךְ	Me.lekh	[the] king of	H4428 →
מִצְרַ֔יִם	mitz.Ra.yim	Egypt	H4714 →
וַיֵּאָנְח֧וּ	vai.ye.'a.ne.Chu	and they groaned	H584 →
בְנֵֽי־	ve.nei-	[the] people of	H1121 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
מִן־	min-	from	H4480 →
הָעֲבֹדָ֖ה	ha.'a.vo.Dah	the labor	H5656 →
וַיִּזְעָ֑קוּ	vai.yiz.'A.ku	and they cried out	H2199 →
וַתַּ֧עַל	va.Ta.'al	and it went up	H5927 →
שַׁוְעָתָ֛ם	shav.'a.Tam	cry for help their	H7775 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים	ha.'E.lo.Him	<the> God	H430 →
מִן־	min-	from	H4480 →
הָעֲבֹדָֽה׃	ha.'a.vo.Dah	the labor	H5656 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
James 5:4
Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
leads to
- Leviticus 19:13
  You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.
- Jeremiah 22:13
  “Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,
- Deuteronomy 24:14–15
  Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.
- Romans 9:29
  It is just as Isaiah foretold: “Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.”
- Malachi 3:5
  “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud…
Through
Acts 7:30
After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.
leads to
- Exodus 3:1–2
  Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
- Acts 7:35
  This Moses, whom they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ is the one whom God sent to be their ruler and redeemer through the angel who appeared to him…
- Isaiah 43:2
  When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you go through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched;…