The name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, “My father’s God was my help and delivered me from Pharaoh’s sword.”
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The name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, “My father’s God was my help and delivered me from Pharaoh’s sword.”
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And the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh:
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and the name of the other was Eliezer: 'for the God of my father was my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.'
Cross-references (12)
Passages linked to Exodus 18:4 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Acts 12:11 When Peter had come to himself, he said, “Now I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting.”
- 2 Corinthians 1:8-10 For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life. Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead, who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;
- 2 Timothy 4:17 But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
- Hebrews 13:6 So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”
- Exodus 2:15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.
- 1 Chronicles 23:15 The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer.
- Psalms 18:1 I love you, Yahweh, my strength.
- Psalms 34:4 I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.
- Psalms 46:1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
- Isaiah 50:7-9 For the Lord Yahweh will help me. Therefore I have not been confounded. Therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I won’t be disappointed. He who justifies me is near. Who will bring charges against me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me. Behold, the Lord Yahweh will help me! Who is he who will condemn me? Behold, they will all grow old like a garment. The moths will eat them up.
- Daniel 6:22 My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.”
- Psalms 18:48 He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Exo 18:4 And the name of the other [was]…
Exo 18:4 And the name of the other [was] Eliezer; for the God of my father, [said he, was] mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh:
Ver. 4. Eliezer.] Or, Lazarus. We should write God’s mercies upon the names of our children, or some other ways perpetuate the memory of them.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the name of the other was Eliezer,.... Who…
And the name of the other was Eliezer,.... Who seems to be his second son, and was that which was circumcised by Zipporah at the inn, and about which there was such a stir, Exo 4:24, and signifies "my God is help", or, his helper:
for the God of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh; who, on hearing that Moses had killed an Egyptian, was wroth with him, and sought to slay him; and perhaps drew his sword for that purpose, but was prevented: however, this, in all human probability, would have been the case, that he would have fallen by his sword either in a private or public manner, had it not been for the interposition of divine Providence, and therefore he gave this name to his child, to be a standing memorial of it.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The name of the other was Eliezer - My…
The name of the other was Eliezer - My God a help: it looks back to his deliverance from Pharaoh, when he made his escape after the slaying of the Egyptian; but if this were the son that was circumcised in the inn, I would rather translate it, The Lord is mine help, and will deliver me from the sword of Pharaoh, which he had reason to expect would be drawn against him, when he was going to fetch Israel out of bondage.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Exo 18:4. The name of the other was Eliezer…
Exo 18:4. The name of the other was Eliezer — My God a help: it looks back to his deliverance from Pharaoh, when he made his escape after the slaying of the Egyptian; but if this were the son that was circumcised in the inn, it would be better to translate it, The Lord is my help, and will deliver me from the sword of Pharaoh, which he had reason to expect would be drawn against him, when he was going to fetch Israel out of bondage.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 4. Eliezer — Here for the first time mentioned…
4. Eliezer — Here for the first time mentioned by name, but both sons are referred to in Exo_4:20, and it is supposed that this younger son was the one circumcised by the way, (Exo_4:25.) The name means, my God is a help, and was given either in remembrance of Moses’s past deliverance from the sword of Pharaoh, or as expressing his hope for the future. The fear of execution as one guilty of blood, and the purpose of Pharaoh to slay him, were the cause of his flight from Egypt, (Exo_2:15.) The same old fear may have arisen at the thought of his returning, and if Eliezer were born about that time there would have been a special appropriateness in the name. We should then render: and he will deliver me, etc.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 4. the God of my father] Exo_3:6 (E), Exo_15:2…
4. the God of my father] Exo_3:6 (E), Exo_15:2 (the Song).
from the sword of Pharaoh] cf. Exo_2:15.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (4) Eliezer.—Eliezer is supposed to have been the boy…
(4) Eliezer.—Eliezer is supposed to have been the boy whom Zipporah circumcised in the wilderness (Exo_4:25). He grew to manhood, and had a son, Rehabiah (1Ch_23:17), whose descendants were in the time of David very numerous (1Ch_23:17; and comp. 1Ch_26:25-26). It is uncertain whether Moses gave him his name before parting from him, in allusion to his escape from the Pharaoh who “sought to slay him” (Exo_2:15), or first named him on occasion of receiving him back, in allusion to his recent escape from the host which had been destroyed in the Red Sea.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Eliezer. Eliezer had not been previously mentioned by name;…
Eliezer. Eliezer had not been previously mentioned by name; but he was probably the son circumcised by Zipporah, as related in Exo_4:25. We learn from 1Ch_23:15-17, that he grew to manhood, andhad an only son, Rehabiah, whose descendants were in the time of Solomon very numerous. For the God of my father, said he, was my help. Eliezer means literally, "My God (is my) help." It would seem that Zipporah, when she circumcised her infant son, omitted to name him; but Moses, before dismissing her, supplied the omission, calling him Eliezer, because God had been his help against the Pharaoh who had sought his life, (Exo_2:15) and of whose death he had recently had intelligence. (Exo_4:19) Thus the names of the two sons expressed respectively, the despondency natural to an exile, and the exultant gratitude of one who had just learned that by God"s goodness, the term of his banishment was over.
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain i.e. God is help.
Eliezer
i.e. God is help.
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