Exodus 6:3 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Exodus 6:3

1 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh. For ^awith a strong hand he will let them go, and with a strong hand ^bhe will drive them out of his land.”

2 And God spoke to Moses and said to him: “I am¹ the Lord.

3 ^aI appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as ^bGod Almighty, but by My name ^cLord I was not known to them.

4 ^aI have also established My covenant with them, ^bto give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, ^cin which they were strangers.

5 And ^aI have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant.

6 Therefore say to the children of Israel: ^a‘I am the Lord; ^bI will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, I will ^crescue you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with¹ an outstretched arm and with great judgments.

7 I will ^atake you as My people, and ^bI will be your God. Then you shall know that I am the Lord your God who brings you out ^cfrom under the burdens of the Egyptians.

8 And I will bring you into the land which I ^aswore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and I will give it to you as a heritage: I am the Lord.’ ”

9 So Moses spoke thus to the children of Israel; ^abut they did not heed Moses, because of ^banguish of spirit and cruel bondage.

10 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

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Exodus 6:3

I . . . God Almighty—All enemies must fall, all difficulties must vanish before My omnipotent power, and the patriarchs had abundant proofs of this.

but by my name, etc.—rather, interrogatively, by My name Jehovah was I not known to them? Am not I, the Almighty God, who pledged My honor for the fulfilment of the covenant, also the self-existent God who lives to accomplish it? Rest assured, therefore, that I shall bring it to pass. This passage has occasioned much discussion; and it has been thought by many to intimate that as the name Jehovah was not known to the patriarchs, at least in the full bearing or practical experience of it, the honor of the disclosure was reserved to Moses, who was the first sent with a message in the name of Jehovah, and enabled to attest it by a series of public miracles.

Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Exodus 6:3:

Genesis 17:1
Exodus 6:1
Job 1:6
Isaiah 26:4
Isaiah 42:8
Jeremiah 16:21
Ezekiel 20:5-6
Hosea 12:5
Malachi 3:6

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