Exodus 1:21
Because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.
In Context
20God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:28Please forgive the trespass of your servant. For the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights the LORD’s battles. Evil will not be found in you all your days.
2 Samuel 7:27For you, LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, have revealed to your servant, saying, ‘I will build you a house.’ Therefore your servant has found in his heart to pray this prayer to you.
1 Kings 11:38It shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do that which is right in my eyes, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did, that I will be with you, and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.
Psalms 112:1Praise the LORD! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who delights greatly in his commandments.
Psalms 127:3Behold, children are a heritage of the LORD. The fruit of the womb is his reward.
Ecclesiastes 8:12Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 1:16-22
15 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah: 16 And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live. 17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive. 18 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done… Read the whole commentary →