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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Exodus 6 The Lord encourages Moses to hope for success from his name Jehovah, and the covenant he had made with the fathers of his people, Exodus 6:1, orders him to assure the children of Israel that he would deliver them from their bondage and burdens, and bring them into the land of Canaan; but through their distress and anguish they hearkened not to him, Exodus 6:6 but Moses is...
John Gill
And I will bring you in unto the land,.... The land of Canaan: concerning the which I did swear; or lift up my hand (a), which was a gesture used in swearing, Genesis 14:22 to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; see Exodus 6:4: and I will give it you for an heritage; to be possessed as an inheritance by them, so long as they were obedient to his will, or until the Messiah came: I am the...
Matthew Henry
Much ado there was to bring Moses to his work, and when the ice was broken, some difficulty having occurred in carrying it on, there was no less ado to put him forward in it. Witness this chapter, in which, I. God satisfies Moses himself in an answer to his complaints in the close of the foregoing chapter, ver. 1. II. He gives him fuller instructions than had yet been given him what to say to the...