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Ashort View of the Whole Scripture History
Ashort View of the Whole Scripture History Author:Isaac Watts Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. The Deliverance of the Israelites front Egypt, and of Moses and Aaron. 1 Q. Who delivered the Israelites from the slavery of Egypt ? A. " G... more »od heard their cry, and delivered them by the hand of Moses and Aaron. Exod. iii. 9,10, and xii. 31. Josh, xxiv. 5, 6. 2 Q. Who was Moses ? A. He was one of the family of Levi among the people of Israel, who was wonderfully .saved from drowning when he was an infant. Exod, ii. 10. 3 Q. How was he in danger of drowning ? A. Pharaoh the king of Egypt had commanded every male child to be drowned ; and when Moses's parents could hide him no longer, they laid him by the bank of the river in an ark or box of bulrushes. Exod. i. 22t and ii. 3. 4 Q. How was he saved ? A. The king of Egypt's daughter found him by the river, and pitied the child, and brought him up for her own son. Exod. ii. 5,6, 9. 5 Q. Did he continue a courtier in Egypt ? A. No; for when he was grown a man he shewed pity to his kindred in their slavery, and slew an Egyptian ; which being known, he fled from the court of Fha- raoh. iiirorf.ii.ll—14. 6 Q. Whither did he fly ? A. To the land of Midian, where he kept the sheep of Jethro a priest, or prince of the country, and married his daughter. Exod. ii. 14, and iii. 1. 7 Q. How did God appoint him to deliver Israel ? A. God appeared to him in a burning bush,as he was keeping Jelhro's sheep, and sent him to Pharaoh, to require the release of Israel his people. Exod. iii. 1—18. 8 Q. What was his office afterwards ? - ( God made him. the leader arid lawgiver of thepeople of Israel. Exod. xxxii. 34. Deut. xxxiii. 4, 5. John .17. 9 Q. Who was Aaron ? Jl. He was brother to Moses, and he was sent of God to meet hit as he was returning to Egypt, and appointed to assist him...« less