13And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:
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But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.
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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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