Infanticide

How Nave’s arranged it

• General scriptures concerningExodus 1:15Exodus 1:16Matthew 2:16–18Acts 7:19

The passages, in Bible order (4)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 4 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Exodus 1:15

   Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah,

   ›Commentary on Exodus 1:152 voices

   “And the king spake to the Hebrew midwives - The two chief of them. They are called Hebrew midwives, probably not because they were themselves Hebrews; for sure Pharaoh could never expect they should be so barbarous to those of their own nation, but because they were generally made use of by the Hebrews, and being Egyptians he hoped to prevail with them.

   “And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives,.... It is difficult to say who these midwives were, whether Egyptian or Hebrew women.

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2. Exodus 1:16

   “When you help the Hebrew women give birth, observe them on the birthstools. If the child is a son, kill him; but if it is a daughter, let her live.”

   ›Commentary on Exodus 1:162 voices

   “Thus too it has been said that the Pharaoh of Egypt was a type of the devil, in that he cruelly ordered the males to be cast into the Nile and permitted the females to live. So too the devil, ruling over the great Egypt of the world "from Adam unto Moses," made an effort to carry off and destroy the male and rational offspring of the soul in the flood of the passions, while he takes delight in seeing the carnal and sensual offspring increase and multiply.

   “And he said, when ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women,....

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3. Matthew 2:16–18

   When Herod saw that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was filled with rage. Sending orders, he put to death all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, according to the time he had learned from the Magi.

   ›Commentary on Matthew 2:16–182 voices

   “Then Herod, &c.--As Deborah sang of the mother of Sisera: "She looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots? Have they not sped?" so Herod wonders that his messengers, with pious zeal, are not hastening with the news that all is ready to receive him as a worshipper.

   “But (we hold the contrary): for Christ, by "accepting praise out of the mouth of babes and sucklings," has declared that neither childhood nor infancy is without sensibility, -the former of which states, when meeting Him with approving shouts, proved its ability to offer Him testimony; while the other, by being slaughtered, for His sake of course, knew what violence meant.

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4. Acts 7:19

   He exploited our people and oppressed our fathers, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.

   ›Commentary on Acts 7:192 voices

   “Moreover, this season of visitation according to Christ also appears. During which all shadowy and typical things are transferred to the truth according to the Gospel. Therefore those who do not endure being so transformed are represented as hard of neck and uncircumcised, hard-hearted with …

   “The same dealt subtilly with our kindred,....

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