Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
God dealt well with the midwives—This represents God as rewarding them for telling a lie. This difficulty is wholly removed by a more correct translation. To "make" or "build up a house" in Hebrew idiom, means to have a numerous progeny. The passage then should be rendered thus: "God protected the midwives, and the people waxed very mighty; and because the midwives feared, the Hebrews grew and prospered."
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Exodus 1:20:
Ezekiel 16:4
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