Exodus 2:17
And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
And the shepherds came and drove them away,.... The daughters of the priest of Midian, and their flock likewise; these were shepherds of some neighbouring princes or great men, who were so rude and…
Methodist theologian, 1762–1832
Adam Clarke
The shepherds - drove them - The verb יגרשים yegareshum, being in the masculine gender, seems to imply that the shepherds drove away the flocks of Reuel's daughters, and not the daughters themselves.…
Moses here gains a settlement in Midian, just as his father Jacob had gained one in Syria, Gen 29:2, etc. And both these instances should encourage us to trust Providence, and to follow it. Events…
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