Postulasagan 13:17

Heilögum Biblíunni

17 Guð lýðs þessa, Ísraels, útvaldi feður vora og hóf upp lýðinn í útlegðinni í Egyptalandi. Með upplyftum armi leiddi hann þá út þaðan.

Bible Verse Review
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God: Acts 7:2-53, Genesis 12:1-3, Genesis 17:7, Genesis 17:8, Deuteronomy 4:37, Deuteronomy 7:6-8, Deuteronomy 9:5, Deuteronomy 14:2, Nehemiah 9:7, Nehemiah 9:8, Psalms 105:6-12, Psalms 105:42, Psalms 105:43, Psalms 135:4, Isaiah 41:8, Isaiah 41:9, Isaiah 44:1, Jeremiah 33:24-26, 1 Peter 2:9

and exalted: Acts 7:17, Exodus 1:7-9, Deuteronomy 10:22, Psalms 105:23, Psalms 105:24

and with: Acts 7:36, Exodus 6:1 - Exodus 14:31, Exodus 15:1-21, Exodus 18:11, Deuteronomy 4:20, Deuteronomy 4:34, Deuteronomy 7:19, 1 Samuel 4:8, Nehemiah 9:9-12, Psalms 77:13-20, Psalms 78:12, Psalms 78:13, Psalms 78:42-53, Psalms 105:26-39, Psalms 106:7-11, Psalms 114:1-8, Psalms 135:8-10, Psalms 136:10-15, Isaiah 63:9-14, Jeremiah 32:20, Jeremiah 32:21, Amos 2:10, Micah 6:4, Micah 7:15, Micah 7:16

Reciprocal: Exodus 12:40 - sojourning Exodus 14:8 - with an high hand Joshua 24:7 - ye dwelt Psalms 69:6 - O God of Israel Psalms 105:37 - brought Acts 13:26 - children Acts 22:14 - The God

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers,.... Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and their seed after them, to be a peculiar people to himself; wherefore he is often, as here, styled their God, and whom he distinguished and blessed with many blessings, civil and religious, above all people upon the face of the earth. The apostle seems particularly to address himself to the Gentiles, the inhabitants of Antioch, and the proselytes of righteousness, now in the synagogue, Acts 13:42 and, as it were, with his finger pointed to the native Jews present, the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, a part of the people whose God the Lord was:

and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt as they did for many years, and as the Lord foretold to Abraham they should, Genesis 15:13 This refers either to the great honour and dignity Joseph was advanced unto, and to the favours and privileges bestowed on Jacob and his family at the first of their sojourning in that land; or to the great increase of their posterity towards the close of it, even when they were the most oppressed and afflicted.

And with an high arm he brought them out of it out of the land of Egypt, and out of their oppression in it; which was owing to, and was a wonderful display of his mighty power and great strength here expressed by an "high arm" for nothing short of that could have wrought deliverance for them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The God of this people - Who has manifested himself as the special friend and protector of this nation. This implied a belief that he had been particularly their God; a favorite doctrine of the Jews, and one that would conciliate their favor toward Paul.

Of Israel - The Jews.

Chose our fathers - Selected the nation to be a chosen and special people to himself, Deuteronomy 7:6-7.

And exalted the people - Raised them up from a low and depressed state of bondage, to freedom, and to special privileges as a nation.

When they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt - ἐν τῇ παροικίᾳ en tē paroikia. This properly refers to their dwelling there as foreigners. They were always strangers there in a strange land. It was not their home. They never mingled with the people; never became constituent parts of the government; never used their language; never united with their usages and laws. They were a strange, separate, depressed people there; not less so than Africans are strangers and foreigners a depressed and degraded people in this land (America), Genesis 36:7; Exodus 6:4; Exodus 22:21; Exodus 23:9; Leviticus 19:34; Deuteronomy 10:19.

And with an high arm - This expression denotes “great power.” The arm denotes “strength,” as that by which we perform anything. A high arm, an arm lifted up, or stretched out, denotes that “strength exerted to the utmost.” The children of Israel are represented as having been delivered with an “outstretched arm,” Deuteronomy 26:8; Exodus 6:6. “With a strong hand,” Exodus 6:1. Reference is made in these places to the plagues inflicted on Egypt, by which the Israelites were delivered; to their passage through the Red Sea; to their victories over their enemies, etc.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 13:17. The God of - our fathers — The apostle begins his discourse with the Egyptian bondage, and their deliverance from it, as points the most remarkable and striking in their history; in which the providence and mighty power of God, exerted so frequently in their behalf, were peculiarly conspicuous.

Exalted the people — Even when they were strangers in the land, and greatly oppressed, God exalted them; made them a terror to their enemies, and multiplied them greatly.

With a high arm — A literal translation of the Hebrew phrase, בזרוע רמה bezeroa ramah, with a lifted-up arm, to protect them and destroy their enemies. The meaning of the phrase is, a manifest display of the Divine power.