Bible Strands
1 Samuel 12:8
When Jacob went to Egypt, your fathers cried out to the LORD, and He sent them Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt and settled them in this place.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Samuel addresses the assembled Israelites during a formal covenant review, recounting the Exodus event to confront their current spiritual neglect. He speaks as a prophet-judge establishing a historical baseline of divine rescue to check their pattern of apostasy.
The words — The verb יִזְעֲקוּ (yiz'aku) means they cried out in distress, and מִצְרָ֑יִם (mitzrayim) names Egypt, the location of both the patriarchal migration and the subsequent bondage.
The thread — The narrative sequence of descent, cry, and deliverance maps directly onto Exodus 2:23 for the groaning under slavery, Exodus 4:14 for the Lord’s provision of Aaron alongside Moses, and Genesis 46:5 for Jacob’s initial journey to the region.
Why it lands — The text explicitly states that Yahweh responded to ancestral cries by sending Moses and Aaron to extract and settle the people in the land. It requires the reader to treat present loyalty as a direct response to recorded historical intervention rather than abstract devotion.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
When Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried unto the Lord, then the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, which brought forth your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place.
Cross-references
- Exodus 4:14 Then the anger of the LORD burned against Moses, and He said, “Is not Aaron the Levite your brother? I know that he can speak well, and he is now on his way to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.
- Exodus 2:23 After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.
- Genesis 46:5 Then Jacob departed from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel took their father Jacob in the wagons Pharaoh had sent to carry him, along with their children and wives.
- Exodus 3:9 And now the cry of the Israelites has reached Me, and I have seen how severely the Egyptians are oppressing them.
- Exodus 4:27 Meanwhile, the LORD had said to Aaron, “Go and meet Moses in the wilderness.” So he went and met Moses at the mountain of God and kissed him.
- Exodus 6:26 It was this Aaron and Moses to whom the LORD said, “Bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their divisions.”
- Exodus 12:51 And on that very day the LORD brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their divisions.
- Exodus 14:30 That day the LORD saved Israel from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the shore.
- Numbers 20:15 how our fathers went down to Egypt, where we lived many years. The Egyptians mistreated us and our fathers,
- Joshua 1:2 “Moses My servant is dead. Now therefore arise, you and all these people, and cross over the Jordan into the land that I am giving to the children of Israel.