So God heard their groaning, and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Parallel translations
- WEB God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
- KJV And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with 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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Quick answer
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 26:3Stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.
- Ps 105:42For He remembered His holy promise to Abraham His servant.
- Exod 6:5Furthermore, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered My covenant.
- Gen 15:14–18But I will judge the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will depart with many possessions.
- Ps 22:24For He has not despised or detested the torment of the afflicted. He has not hidden His face from him, but has attended to his cry for help.
- Gen 26:24and that night the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of My servant Abraham.”
- Luke 1:72–73to show mercy to our fathers and to remember His holy covenant,
- Ps 138:3On the day I called, You answered me; You emboldened me and strengthened my soul.
- Ps 106:45And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.
- Ps 102:20to hear a prisoner’s groaning, to release those condemned to death,
- Gen 46:2–4And that night God spoke to Israel in a vision: “Jacob, Jacob!” He said. “Here I am,” replied Jacob.
- Judg 2:18Whenever the LORD raised up a judge for the Israelites, He was with that judge and saved them from the hands of their enemies while the judge was still alive; for the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning under those who oppressed them and afflicted them.
- Ps 105:6–13O offspring of His servant Abraham, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.
- Gen 17:7I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
- Gen 18:18Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and through him all the nations of the earth will be blessed.
- Ps 22:5They cried out to You and were set free; they trusted in You and were not disappointed.
- Ps 79:11May the groans of the captives reach You; by the strength of Your arm preserve those condemned to death.
- Neh 9:27–28So You delivered them into the hands of enemies who oppressed them, and in their time of distress they cried out to You. From heaven You heard them, and in Your great compassion You gave them deliverers who saved them from the hands of their enemies.
- Gen 28:12–14And Jacob had a dream about a ladder that rested on the earth with its top reaching up to heaven, and God’s angels were going up and down the ladder.
- Neh 9:8–9You found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites and Hittites, of the Amorites and Perizzites, of the Jebusites and Girgashites—to give it to his descendants. You have kept Your promise, because You are righteous.
- Gen 32:28Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”
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