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23Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
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Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance. …
The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.
Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea.
And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-24)We are here taught, in praising God, to look a great way back, and to give him the glory of what he did for his church in former ages, especially when it was in the founding and forming, which those in its latter ages enjoy the benefit of and therefore should give thanks for. Doubtless we may fetch as proper matter for praise from the histories of the gospels, and the acts of the apostles, which r…
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