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Selected Verse: Acts 7:17 - Basic English
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ac 7:17 |
Basic English |
But when the time was near for putting into effect the undertaking which God had given to Abraham, the people were increasing in Egypt, |
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King James |
But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt, |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
But when--rather, "as."
the time of the promise--that is, for its fulfilment.
the people grew and multiplied in Egypt--For more than two hundred years they amounted to no more than seventy-five souls; how prodigious, then, must have been their multiplication during the latter two centuries, when six hundred thousand men, fit for war, besides women and children, left Egypt! |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
The time of the promise - The time of the "fulfillment" of the promise.
The people grew ... - Exo 1:7-9. |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
When (καθὼς)
Rev., more correctly, as; the word being not a particle of time, but meaning in proportion as. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Exo 1:7. |
7 And the children of Israel were fertile, increasing very greatly in numbers and in power; and the land was full of them.
8 Now a new king came to power in Egypt, who had no knowledge of Joseph.
9 And he said to his people, See, the people of Israel are greater in number and in power than we are:
7 And the children of Israel were fertile, increasing very greatly in numbers and in power; and the land was full of them.