Joseph and all his brothers died, but their descendants were numerous, and it made the Egyptians nervous. They thought, "This is not good, if our enemies come to fight us, the Israelites will join with them and overpower us!" So they made the whole nation slaves to them. Sounds like it would be difficult to do, them being... a whole nation and all. But to slow down the population, the midwives were told to kill every baby boy. These gals are in my book of overlooked Bible heroes. It said that they feared God, and did not obey the Pharaoh's orders. BUT he saw that little boys were still running around left and right, so he questioned the midwives as to why they weren't obeying. They said, "Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive."
Then it says, "So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous. And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own." God rewarded them for their fear of him! Those midwives were responsible for the population of Israel growing to what it was. But when Pharaoh figured that the midwife idea wasn't working, he ordered his own people to take care of things and throw the boys in the river.
Then it says, "So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous. And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own." God rewarded them for their fear of him! Those midwives were responsible for the population of Israel growing to what it was. But when Pharaoh figured that the midwife idea wasn't working, he ordered his own people to take care of things and throw the boys in the river.
Of course, Moses was saved in that basket and we all know that part, so let's skip ahead until he's grown up. Moses was walking around one day where the Israelites were working, and he saw an Egyptian beating an Israelite up. The Bible says Moses looked both ways and saw nobody around, so he killed the Egyptian and buried him in the sand. I thought it was kinda interesting... if you're mad enough to kill somebody, I wouldn't guess you'd have the presence of mind to see if anybody's around to see you do it. But apparently he didn't notice that there was a little kid that was out looking for his lost kitty, and that kid went out and told everybody about it. The Pharaoh wanted to kill Moses, so Moses ran away to Midian - where he got married and thought he was gonna live happily ever after... until a burning bush popped up and told him that God had other plans.
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