Exodus 3:16

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Summary

Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt:

Visited

General references

Exodus 4:29

Bible References

Visited

God saw the sons of Israel, and God took notice of them.

So the people believed; and when they heard that the Lord

was concerned about the sons of Israel and that He had seen their affliction, then they bowed low and worshiped.

Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had made the sons of Israel solemnly swear, saying, “God will surely take care of you, and you shall carry my bones from here with you.”

“The peoples have heard, they tremble;
Anguish has gripped the inhabitants of Philistia.

Then the Lord took note of Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as He had promised.

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely take care of you and bring you up from this land to the land which He promised on oath to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob.”

Then she arose with her daughters-in-law that she might return from the land of Moab, for she had heard in the land of Moab that the Lord had visited His people in giving them food.

What is man that You take thought of him,

And the son of man that You care for him?

“Blessed be the Lord God of Israel,
For He has visited us and accomplished redemption for His people,

and they will level you to the ground and your children within you, and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.”

Simeon has related how God first concerned Himself about taking from among the Gentiles a people for His name.

But one has testified somewhere, saying,
“What is man, that You remember him?
Or the son of man, that You are concerned about him?

Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they may because of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God in the day of visitation.

General references

Then Moses and Aaron went and assembled all the elders of the sons of Israel;