Exodus 2:24

24 God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob.

Exodus 2:24 in Other Translations

24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

24 God heard their groaning, and he remembered his covenant promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

24 God listened to their groanings. God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

24 So God heard their groaning, and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Exodus 2:24 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 2:24

And God heard their groaning
The petitions they put up to him with groans and cries:

and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with
Jacob;
that he would bring their seed out of a land not theirs, in which they were strangers, and were afflicted, into the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession.

Exodus 2:24 In-Context

22 Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.”

23 During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God.

24 God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob.

25 So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them.

Cross References

• 1. S Genesis 8:1
• 2. S Genesis 9:15; Genesis 15:15; Genesis 17:4; Genesis 22:16-18; Genesis 26:3; Genesis 28:13-15; Exodus 32:13; Exodus 6:5; 2 Kings 13:23; Psalms 105:10,42; Jeremiah 14:21