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Bible Memory collection
…them safe to learn. Exodus 20:2-3 God introduces himself as the Lord who brought Israel out of Egypt and out of slavery, and only then says they shall have no other gods before him. Rescue comes before requirement. Exodus 20:12 Honour your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the…
Bible Memory verse
God introduces himself as the Lord who brought Israel out of Egypt and out of slavery, and only then says they shall have no other gods before him. Rescue comes before requirement. It sets the shape of all biblical obedience: God saves, and then he commands. Learn the order and the law stops…
Chapter study
…Moses answers from the bush with the same word before he learns what Egypt will cost him. 1 Samuel 3:4 A boy answers in the dark, having to be taught who is calling. Isaiah 6:8 Here am I, send me, spoken after the coal…
Chapter study
…in the context of failure. Psalm 80 pictures a vine God brought out of Egypt and planted, only to watch it broken down and burned. Isaiah 5 sings of a vineyard given every advantage that yielded wild grapes instead of…
Chapter study
…same culture used the shepherd as its standard picture of kingship, and Egyptian and Mesopotamian rulers carried a crook as an emblem of office. So David reaches for an image that is humble and royal at once. He had…
Bible study
…the Ancient Near East, 'shepherd' was a standard royal title. Kings of Egypt, Assyria and Babylon all called themselves shepherds of their people. For an Israelite to sing that the Lord himself is his shepherd is a…
Dig Deeper
…His friends, verse 13. Psalm 80:8-16 Israel as a vine brought out of Egypt, then broken down. The background to the true vine. Isaiah 5:1-7 The vineyard God tended that brought forth wild grapes. The disappointment…
Verse study
…Moses answers from the bush with the same word before he learns what Egypt will cost him. 1 Samuel 3:4 A boy answers in the dark, having to be taught who is calling. Isaiah 6:8 Here am I, send me, spoken after the coal…
Verse study
…in the context of failure. Psalm 80 pictures a vine God brought out of Egypt and planted, only to watch it broken down and burned. Isaiah 5 sings of a vineyard given every advantage that yielded wild grapes instead of…
Verse study
…same culture used the shepherd as its standard picture of kingship, and Egyptian and Mesopotamian rulers carried a crook as an emblem of office. So David reaches for an image that is humble and royal at once. He had…
Reading plan
…rather than mere technique. Collections of wise sayings were common in Egypt and Mesopotamia, so the form of Proverbs would have felt familiar to its first readers. What Proverbs does with the form is what makes it…
Devotional
…the covenant made with Israel's fathers when he brought them out of Egypt, meaning the Sinai covenant of Exodus 24, and says my covenant, which they broke, although I was a husband to them. Jeremiah is diagnosing…
Devotional
…the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant which they broke. The fault named in Jeremiah 31:32 is that the people broke the covenant. Verse 34 adds that under this new covenant,…
Devotional
…treaty: God recounts what He has already done, bringing them out of Egypt on eagles' wings (19:4), before He asks anything of them. Obedience is requested from a people already rescued, not from a people trying to earn…
Devotional
…the exodus narrative, where it describes the power that both judged Egypt and delivered Israel (Deuteronomy 5:15). The same hand disciplines and rescues, and Peter's readers, under real persecution, are told to submit…
Devotional
…for God's name. The answer is not a title borrowed from the gods of Egypt. It is a self-existing declaration: I am who I am. God does not derive His existence or His identity from anything outside Himself. This name…
Devotional
…I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.” WEB This declaration comes right after the bitter waters of Marah are made sweet, at the start of the wilderness…
Devotional
…25:13-16, always tied to the character of God who brought Israel out of Egypt. Commercial honesty was treated as a matter of covenant faithfulness, not merely good business practice. Proverbs 20:10 repeats the same…
Devotional
…in Genesis 50 spans roughly two decades and the entirety of his rise in Egypt. His forgiveness is not offered in the moment of injury. It comes after famine, after his brothers stand before him unaware of who he is,…
Devotional
…with a different reason attached: remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and Yahweh brought you out. Exodus grounds Sabbath in creation; Deuteronomy grounds it in redemption. Together they give rest two roots, one in…
Devotional
…second reason when the commandment is repeated: remembering slavery in Egypt, where rest was denied. The Sabbath functioned as a standing reminder that the God who redeemed His people does not want them to recreate a…
Devotional
…Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. WEB Before Moses receives his commission, God states what…
Devotional
…saying, "I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage." WEB Before a single commandment is given, God identifies Himself by what He has already done. He is the one who…
52 Week Journey
…saying, "I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage." WEB The Law Cannot Justify By the works of the law no flesh will be justified. Romans 3:20 Because by the works of…
52 Week Journey
…Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. WEB Slow to Anger, Yet by No Means Clearing the Guilty…
52 Week Journey
…I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.” WEB By His Stripes We Are Healed The suffering servant carries sickness as well as sin. Isaiah 53:5 But he was…
Biblical concept
…by reminding Israel that the LORD is the one who brought them out of Egypt, before a single command is given. The law was never meant to be the way Israel earned God's favour. It was meant to be the shape of a life…
Biblical concept
…by re-enacting, of eating the meal as though the escape from Egypt were happening again to you, shaped Israel's whole sense of identity as a people who had been rescued by blood rather than by their own strength. By the…
Biblical concept
…the word is used of God himself acting as redeemer, out of slavery in Egypt. Exodus 6:6 God's first announcement of himself as redeemer, setting the pattern for every later use of the word. Ruth 4:9-10 Shows the kinsman…
Biblical concept
…in Scripture is rescue. It begins with God delivering Israel from Egypt and runs through to the New Testament's use of the same word for deliverance from sin, judgement and death. Ephesians 2:8 to 9 states the terms…
Biblical concept
…and answers it. Psalm 80:8 Asaph pictures God bringing a vine out of Egypt and planting it, driving out the nations to make room for it. The image of Israel as a vine God planted and tended runs through the Old…
Biblical concept
…of the vineyard, and the verdict. Psalm 80:8-16 A vine brought out of Egypt and planted. John 15:1-5 I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Jesus tells the parable of the tenants in a vineyard (Mark…
Place in Scripture
…(Leviticus 23:42-43). Because the wilderness removes substitutes. In Egypt there were pots of meat and a system that worked; in the wilderness there is God or nothing. Deuteronomy 8 says the point was to know what was…
Bible question
…in a trade is treated as a gift of God, not a lesser calling. Joseph in Egypt Genesis 39:1-6 He worked as a slave and later as a prisoner, in a household not his own and under people who could dispose of him. The Lord…
Bible question
…and recorded these words at Sinai Israel, recently rescued from Egypt and newly guilty of making a golden calf Exodus 34 follows the calf of Exodus 32 and Moses' intercession in Exodus 33. God renews the covenant and,…
Bible question
…it. Israel on the night of Passover Exodus 12:12-13 Every household in Egypt was under the same judgment, and no family was safer than another by nature. God provided a lamb and a doorframe marked with blood, and where…
Bible question
…50:20 Joseph was sold by his brothers, lied about, and left in an Egyptian prison after doing the right thing. Thirteen years passed with no sign that God was working. God was working the whole time, and Joseph could…
Bible question
…itself is called God's son, Exodus 4:22, and Hosea 11:1 says out of Egypt I called my son. So the title already carried the sense of chosen, loved and responsible before any king wore it. By the first century, Son of…
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