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New King James Version

Exodus 2:24

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Anthropomorphisms;   God;   God Continued...;   Israel;   Prayer;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Prayer, Answers to;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Covenant;   Exodus, book of;   God;   Law;   Leviticus;   Moses;   Yahweh;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Biblical Theology;   Family Life and Relations;   Forgiveness;   Hear, Hearing;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Abraham;   God;   Promise;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Covenant;   Exodus;   Isaac;   Moses;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Jacob;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Moses;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Exodus, the;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Exodus, the Book of;   Groan;   Remember;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Exodus, Book of;   Patriarchs, the;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Avraham, with Yitzchak, and with Ya`akov.
King James Version
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Lexham English Bible
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob,
New Century Version
God heard their cries, and he remembered the agreement he had made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
New English Translation
God heard their groaning, God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob,
Amplified Bible
So God heard their groaning and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Israel).
New American Standard Bible
So God heard their groaning; and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then God heard their mone, and God remembred his couenant with Abraham, Izhak, and Iaakob.
Legacy Standard Bible
So God heard their groaning; and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Contemporary English Version
and God heard their loud cries. He did not forget the promise he had made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
Complete Jewish Bible
God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Avraham, Yitz'chak and Ya‘akov.
Darby Translation
and God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob;
Easy-to-Read Version
God heard their painful cries and remembered the agreement he made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
English Standard Version
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
George Lamsa Translation
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Good News Translation
who heard their groaning and remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Christian Standard Bible®
And God heard their groaning; and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob;
Literal Translation
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And their crye ouer their labor, came before God. And God herde their coplaynte, & remebred his couenaunt with Abraham Isaac and Iacob.
American Standard Version
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Bible in Basic English
And at the sound of their weeping the agreement which God had made with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob came to his mind.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And their complaynt came vp vnto God from the bondage: and God heard their mone, and God remembred his couenaunt with Abraham, Isahac, and Iacob.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
King James Version (1611)
And God heard their groning, and God remembred his Couenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Iacob.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And God heard their groanings, and God remembered his covenant made with Abraam and Isaac and Jacob.
English Revised Version
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Berean Standard Bible
So God heard their groaning, and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he herde the weilyng of hem, and he hadde mynde of the boond of pees, which he hadde maad with Abraham, Ysaac, and Jacob; and he bihelde the sones of Israel,
Young's Literal Translation
and God heareth their groaning, and God remembereth His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob;
Update Bible Version
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Webster's Bible Translation
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
World English Bible
God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
New Living Translation
God heard their groaning, and he remembered his covenant promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
New Life Bible
God heard their crying and remembered His agreement with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
New Revised Standard
God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And God heard their groaning, - and God remembered his covenant, with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he heard their groaning, and remembered the covenant which he made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Revised Standard Version
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
THE MESSAGE
God listened to their groanings. God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So God heard their groaning; and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Contextual Overview

23 Now it happened in the process of time that the king of Egypt died. Then the children of Israel groaned because of the bondage, and they cried out; and their cry came up to God because of the bondage. 24 So God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. 25 And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God acknowledged them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

God heard: Exodus 6:5, Judges 2:18, Nehemiah 9:27, Nehemiah 9:28, Psalms 22:5, Psalms 22:24, Psalms 79:11, Psalms 102:20, Psalms 138:3

remembered: Genesis 15:14-18, Genesis 17:7, Genesis 18:18, Genesis 26:3, Genesis 26:24, Genesis 28:12-14, Genesis 32:28, Genesis 46:2-4, Nehemiah 9:8, Nehemiah 9:9, Psalms 105:6-13, Psalms 105:42, Psalms 106:45, Luke 1:72, Luke 1:73

Reciprocal: Genesis 8:1 - God remembered Genesis 16:11 - hath Genesis 17:21 - my Exodus 22:27 - when he crieth Leviticus 26:42 - will I Leviticus 26:45 - for their Numbers 20:16 - we cried 1 Samuel 12:8 - cried 2 Samuel 16:12 - the Lord 2 Kings 13:23 - had respect Job 24:12 - groan Job 34:28 - they Psalms 12:5 - oppression Psalms 44:24 - forgettest Psalms 94:5 - afflict Psalms 107:10 - bound Psalms 107:39 - oppression Psalms 115:12 - hath Psalms 132:1 - remember Ecclesiastes 4:1 - and considered Isaiah 5:7 - a cry Isaiah 52:5 - make Isaiah 58:3 - labours Jeremiah 14:2 - the cry Ezekiel 16:4 - for Ezekiel 16:6 - and saw James 5:4 - the cries

Cross-References

Genesis 2:1
Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished.
Genesis 2:2
And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.
Genesis 2:3
Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
Genesis 2:4
This is the history [fn] of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,
Genesis 2:6
but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground.
Genesis 2:7
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
Genesis 2:9
And out of the ground the LORD God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 2:10
Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four riverheads.
Genesis 2:11
The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which skirts the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
Genesis 2:12
And the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and the onyx stone are there.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Remembered - This means that God was moved by their prayers to give effect to the covenant, of which an essential condition was the faith and contrition involved in the act of supplication. The whole history of Israel is foreshadowed in these words: God heard, remembered, looked upon, and knew them. It evidently indicates the beginning of a crisis marked by a personal intervention of God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 2:24. God remembered his covenant — God's covenant is God's engagement; he had promised to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give their posterity a land flowing with milk and honey, &c. They are now under the most oppressive bondage, and this was the most proper time for God to show them his mercy and power in fulfilling his promise. This is all that is meant by God's remembering his covenant, for it was now that he began to give it its effect.


 
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