Exodus 3:16

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt:

Visited

General references

Exodus 4:29

Bible References

Visited

God saw the Israelites, and He took notice.

The people believed, and when they heard that the Lord had paid attention to them and that He had seen their misery, they bowed down and worshiped.

Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, because Joseph had made the Israelites swear a solemn oath, saying, “God will certainly come to your aid; then you must take my bones with you from this place.”

When the peoples hear, they will shudder;
anguish will seize the inhabitants of Philistia.

The Lord came to Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what He had promised.

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will certainly come to your aid and bring you up from this land to the land He promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

She and her daughters-in-law prepared to leave the land of Moab, because she had heard in Moab that the Lord had paid attention to His people’s need by providing them food.

what is man that You remember him,
the son of man that You look after him?

Praise the Lord, the God of Israel,
because He has visited
and provided redemption for His people.

They will crush you and your children within you to the ground, and they will not leave one stone on another in you, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.”

Simeon has reported how God first intervened to take from the Gentiles a people for His name.

But one has somewhere testified:

What is man that You remember him,
or the son of man that You care for him?

Conduct yourselves honorably among the Gentiles, so that in a case where they speak against you as those who do what is evil, they will, by observing your good works, glorify God on the day of visitation.

General references

Then Moses and Aaron went and assembled all the elders of the Israelites.