Exodus 2:24 Cross References

Exodus 2:24

24: God heard their cries and remembered his covenant promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Do as I say, and stay here in this land. If you do, I will be with you and bless you. I will give all this land to you and your descendants, just as I solemnly promised Abraham, your father.

You can be sure that I have heard the groans of the people of Israel, who are now slaves to the Egyptians. I have remembered my covenant with them.

He remembered his covenant with them and relented because of his unfailing love.

But I will punish the nation that enslaves them, and in the end they will come away with great wealth.
(But you will die in peace, at a ripe old age.)
After four generations your descendants will return here to this land, when the sin of the Amorites has run its course."
As the sun went down and it became dark, Abram saw a smoking firepot and a flaming torch pass between the halves of the carcasses.
So the LORD made a covenant with Abram that day and said, "I have given this land to your descendants, all the way from the border of Egypt to the great Euphrates River--

For he has not ignored the suffering of the needy. He has not turned and walked away. He has listened to their cries for help.

where the LORD appeared to him on the night of his arrival. "I am the God of your father, Abraham," he said. "Do not be afraid, for I am with you and will bless you. I will give you many descendants, and they will become a great nation. I will do this because of my promise to Abraham, my servant."

Whenever the LORD placed a judge over Israel, he was with that judge and rescued the people from their enemies throughout the judge's lifetime. For the LORD took pity on his people, who were burdened by oppression and suffering.

You heard their cries for help and saved them. They put their trust in you and were never disappointed.

O children of Abraham, God's servant, O descendants of Jacob, God's chosen one.
He is the LORD our God. His rule is seen throughout the land.
He always stands by his covenant--the commitment he made to a thousand generations.
This is the covenant he made with Abraham and the oath he swore to Isaac.
He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to the people of Israel as a never-ending treaty:

Listen to the moaning of the prisoners. Demonstrate your great power by saving those condemned to die.

"I will continue this everlasting covenant between us, generation after generation. It will continue between me and your offspring forever. And I will always be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

During the night God spoke to him in a vision. "Jacob! Jacob!" he called. "Here I am," Jacob replied.
"I am God," the voice said, "the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will see to it that you become a great nation there.
I will go with you down to Egypt, and I will bring your descendants back again. But you will die in Egypt with Joseph at your side."

As he slept, he dreamed of a stairway that reached from earth to heaven. And he saw the angels of God going up and down on it.
At the top of the stairway stood the LORD, and he said, "I am the LORD, the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of your father, Isaac. The ground you are lying on belongs to you. I will give it to you and your descendants.
Your descendants will be as numerous as the dust of the earth! They will cover the land from east to west and from north to south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your descendants.

So you handed them over to their enemies. But in their time of trouble they cried to you, and you heard them from heaven. In great mercy, you sent them deliverers who rescued them from their enemies.
"But when all was going well, your people turned to sin again, and once more you let their enemies conquer them. Yet whenever your people cried to you again for help, you listened once more from heaven. In your wonderful mercy, you rescued them repeatedly!

He has been merciful to our ancestors by remembering his sacred covenant with them,
the covenant he gave to our ancestor Abraham.

"For Abraham will become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed through him.

When he had proved himself faithful, you made a covenant with him to give him and his descendants the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Jebusites, and Girgashites. And you have done what you promised, for you are always true to your word.
"You saw the sufferings and sorrows of our ancestors in Egypt, and you heard their cries from beside the Red Sea.

"Your name will no longer be Jacob," the man told him. "It is now Israel, because you have struggled with both God and men and have won."

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