18And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive?
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Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?
Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.
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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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