And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Parallel translations
- WEB 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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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.
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- Gen 26:3Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;
- Ps 105:42For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.
- Exod 6:5And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.
- Gen 15:14–18And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
- Ps 22:24For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
- Gen 26:24And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham’s sake.
- Luke 1:72–73To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;
- Ps 138:3In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul.
- Ps 106:45And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
- Ps 102:20To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;
- Gen 46:2–4And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.
- Judg 2:18And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.
- Ps 105:6–13O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his chosen.
- Gen 17:7And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
- Gen 18:18Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
- Ps 22:5They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
- Ps 79:11Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;
- Neh 9:27–28Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies.
- Gen 28:12–14And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
- Neh 9:8–9And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous:
- Gen 32:28And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
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