Esodo 18:4

4 e l’altro Eliezer, perché avea detto: "L’Iddio del padre mio è stato il mio aiuto, e mi ha liberato dalla spada di Faraone".

Esodo 18:4 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 18:4

And the name of the other was Eliezer
Who seems to be his second son, and was that which was circumcised by Zipporah at the inn, and about which there was such a stir, ( Exodus 4:24-26 ) , and signifies "my God [is] help", or, his helper:

for the God of my father, [said he], was mine help, and delivered me
from the sword of Pharaoh;
who, on hearing that Moses had killed an Egyptian, was wroth with him, and sought to slay him; and perhaps drew his sword for that purpose, but was prevented: however, this, in all human probability, would have been the case, that he would have fallen by his sword either in a private or public manner, had it not been for the interposition of divine Providence, and therefore he gave this name to his child, to be a standing memorial of it.

Esodo 18:4 In-Context

2 E Jethro, suocero di Mosè, prese Sefora, moglie di Mosè,

3 che questi avea rimandata, e i due figliuoli di lei che si chiamavano: l’uno, Ghershom, perché Mosè avea detto: "Ho soggiornato in terra straniera";

4 e l’altro Eliezer, perché avea detto: "L’Iddio del padre mio è stato il mio aiuto, e mi ha liberato dalla spada di Faraone".

5 Jethro dunque, suocero di Mosè, venne a Mosè, coi figliuoli e la moglie di lui, nel deserto dov’egli era accampato, al monte di Dio;

6 e mandò a dire a Mosè: "Io, Jethro, tuo suocero, vengo da te con la tua moglie e i due suoi figliuoli con lei".