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 God understood.

and the people believed. When they heard that the Lord had attended to the Israelites and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed down close to the ground.

Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the Israelites solemnly swear, "God will surely attend to you, and you will carry my bones up from this place with you."

The nations will hear and tremble; anguish will seize the inhabitants of Philistia.

The Lord visited Sarah just as he had said he would and did for Sarah what he had promised.

Then Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die. But God will surely come to you and lead you up from this land to the land he swore on oath to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."

So she decided to return home from the region of Moab, accompanied by her daughters-in-law, because while she was living in Moab she had heard that the Lord had shown concern for his people, reversing the famine by providing abundant crops.

Of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them? Of what importance is mankind, that you should pay attention to them,

"Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, because he has come to help and has redeemed his people.

They will demolish you -- you and your children within your walls -- and they will not leave within you one stone on top of another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God."

Simeon has explained how God first concerned himself to select from among the Gentiles a people for his name.

Instead someone testified somewhere: "What is man that you think of him or the son of man that you care for him?

and maintain good conduct among the non-Christians, so that though they now malign you as wrongdoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God when he appears.

General references

Then Moses and Aaron went and brought together all the Israelite elders.