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God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.
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God Rewards Courageous Faith
Commentators clarify that God blessed the midwives not for their deception, but for their underlying "fear of God." Charles Ellicott emphasizes that their willingness to disobey the king's wicked command, even at the risk of their own lives, was the basis for God's favor. Their actions demonstrated a greater allegiance to God than to Pharaoh.
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Exodus
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19th Century
Anglican
Therefore God dealt well with the midwives. — The Hebrew text reads, and God dealt well, and so forth. The reaso…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Wherefore God dealt well with the midwives He approved of their conduct upon the whole, however difficult it may be to cl…
Presbyterian
The Egyptians tried to destroy Israel by the murder of their children. The enmity that is in the seed of the serpent, against the Seed of the woman…
