And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Here is, 1. The continuance of the Israelites' bondage in Egypt, Exo 2:23. Probably the murdering of their infants did not continue; this part of their affliction attended only the period immediately connected with the birth of Moses, and served to signalize it.
Commenting on Exodus 2:23-25
And God heard their groaning,.... The petitions they put up to him with groans and cries: and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob; that he would bring their seed out of a land not theirs, in which they were strangers, and were afflicted, into the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession.
Through faith Moses renounced palace and power to identify himself with God's suffering people, a sacrifice no earthly king has matched. The sight of a taskmaster scourging a Hebrew slave without cause fired even his meek nature with indignation.
AI summary
Commenting on Exodus 2:11-25