Exodus 2:24
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
American King James Version (AKJV)
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
American Standard Version (ASV)
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
And at the sound of their weeping the agreement which God had made with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob came to his mind.
Webster's Revision
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
World English Bible
God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
English Revised Version (ERV)
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Clarke's Exodus 2:24 Bible Commentary
God remembered his covenant - God's covenant is God's engagement; he had promised to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give their posterity a land flowing with milk and honey, etc. They are now under the most oppressive bondage, and this was the most proper time for God to show them his mercy and power in fulfilling his promise. This is all that is meant by God's remembering his covenant, for it was now that he began to give it its effect.
Barnes's Exodus 2:24 Bible Commentary
Remembered - This means that God was moved by their prayers to give effect to the covenant, of which an essential condition was the faith and contrition involved in the act of supplication. The whole history of Israel is foreshadowed in these words: God heard, remembered, looked upon, and knew them. It evidently indicates the beginning of a crisis marked by a personal intervention of God.
Wesley's Exodus 2:24 Bible Commentary
2:24 And God heard their groaning - That is, he made it to appear that he took notice of their complaints. The groans of the oppressed cry loud in the ears of the righteous God, to whom vengeance belongs; especially the groans of God's children, the burdens they groan under, and the blessings they groan after. And God remembered his covenant - Which he seemed to have forgotten, but really is ever mindful of. This God had an eye to, and not to any merit of theirs in what he did for them. And God looked upon the children of Israel - Moses looked upon them and pitied them, but now God looked upon them and helped them. And God had respect unto them - A favourable respect to them as his own. The frequent repetition of the name of God intimates, that now we are to expect something great. His eyes which run to and fro through the earth, are now fixed on Israel, to shew himself strong, to shew himself a God in their behalf.