And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
Parallel translations
- WEB I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth,
- BSB But I will judge the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will depart with many possessions.
- NKJV And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions.
- NASB But I will also judge the nation whom they will serve, and afterward they will come out with many possessions.
- NLT But I will punish the nation that enslaves them, and in the end they will come away with great wealth.
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Quick answer
God promised to judge the nation that enslaved Israel and bring His people out with great wealth. Affliction would end in deliverance and justice.
Overview
The Lord pledges both to punish the oppressor and to liberate His people, fulfilled when He judged Egypt and Israel left laden with plunder. This shows God's faithfulness to deliver and His justice against those who harm His people. The exodus becomes the great Old Testament picture of redemption, anticipating the greater deliverance from sin through Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 18
- Neh 9:9–11And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea;
- Exod 6:5–6And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.
- Exod 12:32–38Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.
- Josh 24:4–7And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.
- Exod 7:1–14And the LORD said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.
- Ps 135:14For the LORD will judge his people, and he will repent himself concerning his servants.
- Deut 4:20But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.
- 1 Sam 12:8When Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried unto the LORD, then the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, which brought forth your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place.
- Deut 6:22And the LORD shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes:
- Deut 7:18–19Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;
- Josh 24:17For the LORD our God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed:
- Ps 105:27–37They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
- Deut 11:2–4And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,
- Gen 46:1–34And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.
- Exod 3:21–22And I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty:
- Ps 51:4Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
- Ps 78:43–51How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:
- Ps 135:9Who sent tokens and wonders into the midst of thee, O Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants.
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