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Acts 7:19 KJV
Acts · chapter 7 · verse 19
The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.Acts 7:19 · King James Version
Acts 7:19 in context
17But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
18Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph.
19The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.
20In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father’s house three months:
21And when he was cast out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- entreatedkakoōto oppress, afflict, harm, maltreat, to embitter, render evil affectedG2559 →
- subtillykatasophizomaito circumvent by artifice or fraud, conquer by subtle devices, to outwit, overreach, to…G2686 →
- childrenbrephosan unborn child, embryo, a foetus, a new-born child, an infant, a babeG1025 →
- kindredgenoskindred, offspring, family, stock, tribe, nationG1085 →
- fatherspatērgenerator or male ancestor, either the nearest ancestor father of the corporeal nature…G3962 →
- endeisinto, unto, to, towards, for, amongG1519 →
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Stephen here goes on to relate, I. The wonderful increase of the people of Israel in Egypt; it was by a wonder of providence that in a little time they advanced from a family into a nation. 1. It was when the time of the promise drew nigh - the time when they were to be formed into a people.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 17-29