“And God spoke all these words, saying” (Exodus 20:1 ESV). Did you know that God actually spoke the Ten Commandments aloud from Mount Sinai for all the Israelites to hear? Before God wrote the Decalogue down onto stone tablets, He actually spoke them aloud from Mount Sinai for all the Israelites to hear. A literal
“But Moses’ hands grew weary, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it, while Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side. So his hands were steady until the going down of the sun” (Exodus 17:12 ESV). As
“Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there by the water” (Exodus 15:27 ESV). As they traveled on, the Israelites came to Elim, an oasis located along the Eastern side of the Red Sea near the desert of Sin. It must have been
“When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near” (Exodus 13:17 ESV). Why did God lead the Israelites the long way around to the Promised Land? He wanted to give them time to grow in their faith before facing warfare with
‘And seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found nothing on it but only leaves. And he said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” And the fig tree withered at once’ (Matthew 21:19 ESV). The morning after Jesus had overturned the tables of the money changers
“The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt” (Exodus 12:13 ESV). The Lord instructed Moses to have each household choose a male
“The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein” (Psalm 24:1 ESV). This psalm of David begins with an announcement of God’s ownership of everything and everyone. David declared that since God had created all things, He therefore owned all things. This meant that David saw himself not
“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want” (Psalm 23:1 ESV). David, the shepherd-king, knew how sheep trusted their shepherd with every need. As he considered his relationship with God, he wrote of his total dependence and contentment to the Lord as his shepherd. He said that having the Lord as his shepherd meant
“Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak.” (Exodus 4:12 ESV). God rebuked Moses for saying he couldn’t obey God’s call because he wasn’t an eloquent speaker. “Who has made man’s mouth?” God asked him. The Lord wanted to move Moses’ perspective from his own abilities
“Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God” (Exodus 3:1 ESV). Moses had spent the first 40 years of his life as an Egyptian prince. Now, he would spend