John Gill Commentary Exodus 3:10

"Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt." — Exodus 3:10 (ASV)

Come now therefore. Leave your flock, your family, and the land of Midian: and I will send you to Pharaoh: this Pharaoh, according to Eusebius, was Cenchres, the successor of Achoris; but according to Bishop Usher, his name was Amenophis, who immediately succeeded Ramesses Miamun, under whom Moses was born. Clemens of Alexandria ^F23 relates from Apion, and he, from Ptolemy Mendesius, that it was in the times of Amosis that Moses led the children of Israel out of Egypt; but Tacitus^F24 says, the name of this king was Bocchoris, who obliged them to go out, being advised by an oracle to do so; and so says Lysimachus^F25:

that you may bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt; and conduct them through the wilderness to the land of Canaan, and so be their deliverer, guide, and governor under God, who now gave him a commission to act for him.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F23: Stromat. l. 1. p. 320.
• F24: Hist. l. 5. c. 3.
• F25: Apud Joseph. contr. Apion, l. 1. c. 34.