Exodus 2 · Verse 24

Exodus 2:24

And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Exodus 2:24, King James Version

Exodus 2:24 in other translations

BSBSo God heard their groaning, and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
WEBGod heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
ASVAnd God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
YLTand God heareth their groaning, and God remembereth His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob;
DARBYand God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob;
BBEAnd at the sound of their weeping the agreement which God had made with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob came to his mind.
WebsterAnd God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

What does Exodus 2:24 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 24 God remembered his covenant - God's covenant is God's engagement; he had promised to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give their posterity a land flowing with milk and honey, etc. They are now under the most oppressive bondage, and this was the most proper time for God to show them his mercy and power in fulfilling his promise. This is all that is meant by God's remembering his covenant, for it was now that he began to give it its effect.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Exodus 2:23-25

The Israelites' bondage in Egypt continued, though the murdering of their infants did not continue. Sometimes the Lord suffers the rod of the wicked to lie very long and very heavy on the lot of the righteous. At last they began to think of God under their troubles. It is a sign that the Lord is coming towards us with deliverance, when he inclines and enables us to cry to him for it. God heard their groaning; he…

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Exodus 2:24 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיִּשְׁמַ֥עvai.yish.Ma'and he heardH8085
אֱלֹהִ֖ים'E.lo.HimGodH430
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
נַאֲקָתָ֑םna.'a.ka.Tamgroaning theirH5009
וַיִּזְכֹּ֤רvai.yiz.Korand he rememberedH2142
אֱלֹהִים֙'E.lo.HimGodH430
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
בְּרִית֔וֹbe.ri.Tocovenant hisH1285
אֶת\־'et-withH854
אַבְרָהָ֖ם'av.ra.HamAbrahamH85
אֶת\־'et-withH854
יִצְחָ֥קyitz.ChakIsaacH3327
וְאֶֽת\־ve.'Etand withH854
יַעֲקֹֽב\׃ya.'a.KoJacobH3290

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Cross references for Exodus 2:24

  • Genesis 26:3

    Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;

  • Psalms 105:42

    For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.

  • Exodus 6:5

    And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.

  • Genesis 15:14-18

    And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces. …

  • Luke 1:72-73

    To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant; The oath which he sware to our father Abraham,

  • Psalms 22:24

    For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.

  • Psalms 138:3

    In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul.

  • Genesis 26:24

    And the Lord appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham’s sake.

  • Psalms 106:45

    And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.

  • Psalms 102:20

    To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;

  • Psalms 105:6-13

    O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his chosen. He is the Lord our God: his judgments are in all the earth. He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations. Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac; …

  • Judges 2:18

    And when the Lord raised them up judges, then the Lord was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the Lord because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
God heard.
6:5; Jud 2:18; Ne 9:27,28; Ps 22:5,24; 79:11; 102:20; 138:3
remembered.
Ge 15:14-18; 17:7; 18:18; 26:3,24; 28:12-14; 32:28; 46:2-4; Ne 9:8,9
Ps 105:6-13,42; 106:45; Lu 1:72,73

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Context

  • Exodus 2:23

    And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.

  • Exodus 2:24

    And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

  • Exodus 2:25

    And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.

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Exodus 2:24 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y oyó Dios el gemido de ellos, y acordóse de su pacto con Abraham, Isaac y Jacob.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et Dieu entendit leur gémissement, et Dieu se souvint de son alliance avec Abraham, avec Isaac, et avec Jacob.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und Gott hörte ihr Wehklagen, und Gott gedachte seines Bundes mit Abraham, mit Isaak und mit Jakob;
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Et audivit gemitum eorum, ac recordatus est fœderis quod pepigit cum Abraham, Isaac et Jacob.