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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly. God has dealt kindly and graciously with us, yet here is an all too true description of what we have done: “We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly. Three time is the confession of sin here made. It is a good beginning when we can begin with confessing sin. I wish that some people had begun there, when they took up with religion; but they too often jump into it, and I am afraid that they will jump out of it...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt,.... Or, "our fathers in Egypt" (l); while they were there, they did not understand, or wisely consider and attend unto, the miracles there wrought, the plagues inflicted on the Egyptians. These were done in their sight, they saw them with their eyes; yet had not hearts to perceive them, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea. They had hardly started out of Egypt before they provoked Jehovah. They had only just caught sight of the rolling waters of the Red sea, when they began to murmur against God and against his servant, Moses.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt. Yet they were very plain, easy to understand, for they were the wonders of power that were wrought by God on behalf of his people; but they understood them not. Psa_106:7. They remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; They had bad memories as well as bad understandings, and it is so often with...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; They saw them; they were surprised by them; but they could not make them out, could not tell what God was at when he smote the Egyptians. A want of understanding of divine truth is a very fatal want. Psa_106:7. They remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; What we do not understand we soon...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Nevertheless, he saved them for his name's sake,.... Not for any worth or worthiness in them; not for their righteousness sake, for they were a rebellious and disobedient people; but for his name's sake, because his name was called upon them, and he was called the God of the Hebrews, as Aben Ezra observes; and the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, — Oh, is not that a grand word? Well might Jehovah say, “Not for your sakes do I this, O house of Israel.” He saved them for his own sake, Psa_106:8. That he might make his mighty power to be known. Free grace finds in itself, not in us, its own motive, and discovers its own reason for acting on our...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known. He saved them, not for their own sakes, but for his name’s sake, for the manifestation of his own power and glory. This is how God still deals with his children; not on the ground of their merits, but for the manifestation of his own mercy and grace...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known. He could not save them for their own sake, but he saved them for his own name’s sake.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up,.... By sending a strong east wind, which drove the waters back, and made the sea a dry land, Exodus 14:21. So he led them through the depths; that is, the deep waters of the sea, which were cast up as an heap, and stood as a wall on each side, through which they passed. As through the wilderness;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness. And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of them left. Then believed they his words; they sang his praise. They soon...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness. And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of them left. Then believed they his words; they sang his praise. I should...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through depths, as through the wilderness. The bottom of the sea was made as dry and as easy for their feet as the plains of the wilderness, and God led them through.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them,.... As Pharaoh and his people did, because of their numerous increase, which they endeavoured to prevent; and still more because of the plagues inflicted on them; and now because they were got away from them, and therefore pursued them in great wrath and indignation, Exodus 15:9. And redeemed...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of them left. Then believed they his words; they sang his praise. It is almost a sarcasm. They believed when they saw. When the promise was fulfilled, then they believed it. Ah! my dear...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the waters covered their enemies,.... They pursuing the Israelites into the sea, the waters returned, and covered Pharaoh and all his host, and drowned them, so that they sunk as a stone, and as lead into the bottom of the sea, Exodus 14:28. There was not one of them left; to return back to Egypt, and give an account of what became of the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then believed they his words,.... And not till then; for this is observed, not to their commendation, but to show the slowness of their hearts to believe; they believed on sight, but not before, as Thomas did; whereas, "blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed", John 20:29. When they saw the Egyptians dead on the sea shore, then...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
They soon forgat his works,.... The miracles he wrought in Egypt, the deliverance of them from thence with a mighty hand and outstretched arm, and the leading them through the Red sea as on dry land, and destroying all their enemies; all these they soon forgot, for they had gone but three days' journey into the wilderness after this, ere they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel: but lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert. And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul. So it always is with us when we begin to let our desires outrun the will of God. He will sometimes let us discover our own folly by granting us our...