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42For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant; …
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy; …
And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.
Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 25-45)After the history of the patriarchs follows here the history of the people of Israel, when they grew into a nation. I. Their affliction in Egypt (Ps. 105:25): He turned the heart of the Egyptians, who had protected them, to hate them and deal subtilely with them. God’s goodness to his people exasperated the Egyptians against them; and, though their old antipathy to the Hebrews (which we read of Ge…
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