17But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
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Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.
But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-22)The Egyptians’ indignation at Israel’s increase, notwithstanding the many hardships they put upon them, drove them at length to the most barbarous and inhuman methods of suppressing them, by the murder of their children. It was strange that they did not rather pick quarrels with the grown men, against whom they might perhaps find some occasion: to be thus bloody towards the infants, whom all must…
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