1 Samuel 12:8

8 Als Jakob nach Ägypten gekommen war, da schrieen eure Väter zu Jehova; und Jehova sandte Mose und Aaron, und sie führten eure Väter aus Ägypten hinweg und ließen sie wohnen an diesem Orte.

1 Samuel 12:8 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 12:8

When Jacob was come into Egypt
With his family to see his son Joseph, and dwelt there; or rather the posterity of Jacob are meant, who settled in Egypt, and continued there many years, and at length were oppressed by the Egyptians, and brought into hard bondage:

and your fathers cried unto the Lord;
by reason of their bondage, for help and deliverance:

then the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, which brought forth your fathers
out of Egypt;
after various messages carried by them from the Lord to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and after many signs and wonders wrought by them, by which the heart of that king was at last brought to consent to their dismission:

and made them dwell in this place;
the land of Canaan; they conducted them through the Red sea, guided them through the wilderness, and accompanied them, especially Moses, to the borders of the land of Canaan; for neither of them went into it, but died before the people's entrance there. Joshua, the successor of Moses, of whom Samuel makes no mention, introduced Israel into it, conquered the land for them, and settled them in it; though Moses and Aaron, as they were the instruments of bringing them out of Egypt, were the cause, by conducting them through the wilderness, and by their prayers, counsels, and instructions, of their entrance into and settlement in it: besides, Moses appointed Joshua in his stead, and ordered him to lead the people there, and directed to the division of the land among them, yea, two tribes and an half were settled by him on the other side Jordan; the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions, read in the singular number, "he made them dwell, that is, the Lord".

1 Samuel 12:8 In-Context

6 Und Samuel sprach zu dem Volke: Jehova ist es, der Mose und Aaron bestellt, und der eure Väter heraufgeführt hat aus dem Lande Ägypten!

7 Und nun tretet her, daß ich vor Jehova mit euch rechte über alle gerechten Taten Jehovas, die er an euch und an euren Vätern getan hat.

8 Als Jakob nach Ägypten gekommen war, da schrieen eure Väter zu Jehova; und Jehova sandte Mose und Aaron, und sie führten eure Väter aus Ägypten hinweg und ließen sie wohnen an diesem Orte.

9 Aber sie vergaßen Jehova, ihren Gott; und er verkaufte sie in die Hand Siseras, des Heerobersten von Hazor, und in die Hand der Philister und in die Hand des Königs von Moab, und sie stritten wider sie.

10 Da schrieen sie zu Jehova und sprachen: Wir haben gesündigt, daß wir Jehova verlassen und den Baalim und den Astaroth gedient haben; und nun errette uns aus der Hand unserer Feinde, so wollen wir dir dienen!