What is meant by a generation? What must at last become of every generation of man? 7. What is said of the increase of the children of Israel in Egypt? What is meant by "waxed exceeding mighty ?" Whose promises were fulfilled in this great increase? What had God promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, concerning the number of their seed? Gen. xiii. 16. 8. What is said of the new king who arose to reign over Egypt? What is probably meant by the expression "he knew not Joseph ?" Why are kindness and benevolence often forgotten in this world? Who is the only never-failing, everlasting friend? 9. What did the new king of Egypt say to his people about the great number of the people of Israel? What is the meaning of mightier? Were the people of Israel strong, as well as numer ous ? 10. How did the king say they would deal with Israel? What is here meant by wisely? What is written concerning this kind of wisdom, or eunning artifice, in James iii. 14, 15? What did the king of Egypt say he feared if the people of Israel multiplied? What is meant by multiply? If the children of Israel were treated kindly, was there any cause to fear that they would join the enemies of Egypt? What was the king's real design in preventing their increase? 11. What were set over the Israelites, in pursuance of this design? What are task-masters? How did these task-masters afflict the children of Israel? What had God in vision foretold to Abraham concerning this? Gen. xv. 13. What cities did the people of Israel build for Pharaoh? For what use were these cities built? 12. Did the afflictions laid upon them by the Egyptians prevent their increase? What was, on the contrary, the case? How did this affect the Egyptians? Can the persecutions of the world prevent the increase of the Church, the children of God? What effect has the increase and prosperity of the Church upon the people of the world? 13. How did the Egyptians make the children of Israel to serve? What is the meaning of rigour? What sort of treatment is always due to those who serve us? What is written in Col. iv. 1? 14. With what did the Egyptians make the lives of the children of Israel bitter? What is meant by bondage? What is it to make one's life bitter? In what were the children of Israel compelled to work? How was all their service exacted? What was the design of the Egyptians in all this? What is written in Prov. xxi. 30? Verse 22. 22. When Pharaoh found that he could not reduce the people of Israel by all his designs and plans, what charge did he give to his people? Did he mean the children of the Israelites? What must have become of the seed of Jacob, if the Lord had not protected them? What was his design in thus preserving his people in the midst of persecution and trial? LESSON XXXII. Exodus, Chap. ii. verses 1-10, 23-25. Birth of Moses.-God remembers his covenant with Israel. 1. Of what house or tribe, in Israel, were the man and woman mentioned in this chapter? What is said of the man? What were their names, as you learn in Numb. xxvi. 59 ? Who was Levi? 2. What sort of child was this woman's son? When she saw this, what did she do with with him? Why did she hide him? Ex. i. 22. What is written of the faith of this woman and her husband, in Heb. xi. 23 ? What did Stephen say of the beauty of this child, Moses, in Acts vii. 20? What is meant by goodly? 3. When the woman could no longer hide her child, what did she do with him? What are bulrushes ? What is meant here by an ark? Why did the woman daub it with slime and pitch? Where did she lay the ark with the little child? By what river? Who was to take care of the baby there? To what dangers was it exposed? What dreadful animals abound in the river Nile? 4. Who stood afar off? Whose sister? What was her name? See Numb. xxvi. 59 ? 5. Who came down that For what purpose? way Who inclined the daughter of Pharaoh to come to the river at that time? Will God ever disappoint those who trust in him? Where did the maidens of this princess walk? When she saw the ark among the flags, what did she do? 6. What did she see when she opened it? When the little babe wept, how did she feel towards him? What did she say? Whom did she mean by the Hebrews? Why did she suppose one of the children of the Hebrews would be left in that manner? 7. Who then came near and spoke? What did she say? Who put this thought into the heart of the little girl? · 8. How did Pharaoh's daughter answer her? Whom did the little maid go and call? 9. What did Pharaoh's daughter say to the woman? What then did the woman do? 10. When the child was large enough, to whom did she bring him? How was he regarded by Pharaoh's daughter? What name did she give him? Why did she call him by that name? Did Moses always remain with Pharaoh's daughter? Verses 23-25. 23. What came to pass in process of time? What is meant by process of time? In what condition were the children of Is rael? Unto whom did their cry come up ? 24. When God heard the groaning of his people, what did he remember? What covenant was this? See Ps. cv. 9-11. To whom do the poor and destitute never cry in vain ? 25. Upon whom did God look? How did he regard them? What is meant by the expression “he had respect unto -them ?"" -LESSON XXXIII. Exodus, Chap. iii. verses 1-15. Moses sent to the Children of Israel. 1. Whose flock did Moses keep? |