THEOSISEphraem the Syrian
The Lord instructed him to assemble the elders, affirming that He had heard their cries and would bring them to the land of the Canaanites (Exodus 3:9).
Exodus 3:16Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Go and gather together the ancients of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared to me, saying: Visiting I have visited you; and I have seen all that hath befallen you in Egypt.
לֵ֣ךְ וְאָֽסַפְתָּ֞ אֶת־זִקְנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל וְאָמַרְתָּ֤ אֲלֵהֶם֙ יְהוָ֞ה אֱלֹהֵ֤י אֲבֹֽתֵיכֶם֙ נִרְאָ֣ה אֵלַ֔י אֱלֹהֵ֧י אַבְרָהָ֛ם יִצְחָ֥ק וְיַעֲקֹ֖ב לֵאמֹ֑ר פָּקֹ֤ד פָּקַ֙דְתִּי֙ אֶתְכֶ֔ם וְאֶת־הֶעָשׂ֥וּי לָכֶ֖ם בְּמִצְרָֽיִם׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Ex 4:29And they came together, and they assembled all the ancients of the children of Israel.
- Ps 8:4For I will behold thy heavens, the works of thy fingers: the moon and the stars which thou hast founded.
- Ex 4:31And the people believed. And they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction: and falling down they adored.
- Gen 50:24And he made them swear to him, saying: God will visit you, carry my bones with you out of this place:
- Acts 15:14Simon hath related how God first visited to take to the Gentiles, a people to his name.
- Ex 4:5That they may believe, saith he, that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared to thee.
- Acts 11:30Which also they did, sending it to the ancients, by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.
- Luke 19:44And beat thee flat to the ground, and thy children who are in thee. And they shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone: because thou hast not known the time of thy visitation.