10Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.
They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones. …
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 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 sa…
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