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"I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket.
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God the Deliverer
Commentators unanimously identify the speaker as God, who is reminding Israel of His mighty act of deliverance. The 'burden' and 'basket' (or 'pots') refer directly to the grueling forced labor of slavery in Egypt, such as making and carrying bricks. God personally intervened to free His people from this oppression.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
I removed his shoulder from the burden - The burden which the people of Israel were called to bear in Egypt. The reference is undou…
19th Century
Anglican
Pots. —Deriving from a root to boil, and with allusion to potteries, which, probably, together with the bric…
Baptist
I removed his shoulder from the burden:
Is not that true of many of you in a spiritual sense? Oh, what a burden of sin we used to c…
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16th Century
Protestant
I have removed his shoulder from the burden. Here God begins to recount the benefits which he had bestowed upon the Israelites, and the ma…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
I removed his shoulder from the burden These are the words of God, declaring how he had delivered the Israelites fro…
All the worship we can render to the Lord is beneath his excellences and our obligations to him, especially in our redemption from sin and wrath. W…
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