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God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Exodus 2:24 · World English Bible
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  • KJV And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
  • BSB So God heard their groaning, and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
  • NKJV So God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
  • NASB So God heard their groaning; and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
  • NLT God heard their groaning, and he remembered his covenant promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

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God hears their groaning and remembers His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Their deliverance flows from God's covenant promises.

Overview

For God to "remember" is not to recall something forgotten but to act on His sworn commitment. Israel's rescue rests not on their merit but on God's faithfulness to His covenant with the patriarchs. This anchors the exodus in grace and assures believers that God always keeps His promises.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 21

  • Gen 26:3Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.
  • Ps 105:42For he remembered his holy word, and Abraham, his servant.
  • Exod 6:5Moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered my covenant.
  • Gen 15:14–18I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth,
  • Ps 22:24For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.
  • Gen 26:24Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Don’t be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham’s sake.”
  • Luke 1:72–73to show mercy towards our fathers, to remember his holy covenant,
  • Ps 138:3In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.
  • Ps 106:45He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
  • Ps 102:20to hear the groans of the prisoner; to free those who are condemned to death;
  • Gen 46:2–4God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, “Jacob, Jacob!” He said, “Here I am.”
  • Judg 2:18When Yahweh raised up judges for them, then Yahweh was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for it grieved Yahweh because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and troubled them.
  • Ps 105:6–13you offspring of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
  • Gen 17:7I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.
  • Gen 18:18since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?
  • Ps 22:5They cried to you, and were delivered. They trusted in you, and were not disappointed.
  • Ps 79:11Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.
  • Neh 9:27–28Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them. In the time of their trouble, when they cried to you, you heard from heaven; and according to your manifold mercies you gave them saviors who saved them out of the hands of their adversaries.
  • Gen 28:12–14He dreamed. Behold, a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
  • Neh 9:8–9found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his offspring, and have performed your words; for you are righteous.
  • Gen 32:28He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”

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Christ at the center

The Passover lamb whose blood turns away death, the exodus through the sea, the manna, the rock, and the tabernacle where God dwells with his people all foreshadow Jesus — our Passover, our redemption, the bread from heaven, and God-with-us in the flesh.

How Exodus 2:24 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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