出埃及记 2:17

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

有些牧人來了，把她們趕走；摩西卻起來，救了她們，也給她們的羊群喝水。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
有 牧 羊 的 人 来 ， 把 他 们 赶 走 了 ， 摩 西 却 起 来 帮 助 他 们 ， 又 饮 了 他 们 的 群 羊 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁶ There was a priest in Midian who had seven daughters. His daughters went to that well to get water to fill the water troughs for their father's flock. ¹⁷ Some shepherds came and chased the girls away, but Moses defended the girls and watered their flock. ¹⁸ When they went back to their father Reuel, he asked them, "Why have you come home early today?" ¹⁹ The girls answered, "The shepherds chased us away, but an Egyptian defended us. He got water for us and watered our flock." ²⁰ He asked his daughters, "Where is this man? Why did you leave him? Invite him to eat with us." ²¹ Moses agreed to stay with Jethro, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses to be his wife. ²² Zipporah gave birth to a son. Moses named him Gershom, because Moses was a stranger in a land that was not his own.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

shepherds: Genesis 21:25, Genesis 26:15-22

watered: Exodus 2:12, Genesis 29:10

Reciprocal: Genesis 13:7 - a strife Judges 5:11 - in the places

Cross-References

Genesis 2:1
So the sky, the earth, and all that filled them were finished.

Genesis 2:4
This is the story of the creation of the sky and the earth. When the Lord God first made the earth and the sky,

Genesis 2:6
but a mist would rise up from the earth and water all the ground.

Genesis 2:9
The Lord God caused every beautiful tree and every tree that was good for food to grow out of the ground. In the middle of the garden, God put the tree that gives life and also the tree that gives the knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 2:10
A river flowed through Eden and watered the garden. From there the river branched out to become four rivers.

Genesis 2:12
The gold of that land is excellent. Bdellium and onyx are also found there.

Genesis 2:13
The second river, named Gihon, flows around the whole land of Cush.

Genesis 2:18
Then the Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is right for him."

Genesis 2:20
The man gave names to all the tame animals, to the birds in the sky, and to all the wild animals. But Adam did not find a helper that was right for him.

Genesis 2:21
So the Lord God caused the man to sleep very deeply, and while he was asleep, God removed one of the man's ribs. Then God closed up the man's skin at the place where he took the rib.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the shepherds came and drove them away,.... The daughters of the priest of Midian, and their flock likewise; these were shepherds of some neighbouring princes or great men, who were so rude and slothful, and to save themselves a little trouble of drawing water, brought up their flocks to drink of the water those virgins had drawn, and to do this forced them and their flocks away:

but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock; moved to see such rude and uncivil treatment of the weaker sex, rose up from the ground on which he sat, and took their parts, and obliged the shepherds to give way, and brought up their flock to the troughs, and drew water for them, and gave them it; either he did this alone, or together with the servants that waited upon the priest's daughters, perhaps alone; and if it be considered that shepherds being usually not of a very martial spirit, and these also in a wrong cause, and Moses a man of an heroic disposition, and had doubtless the appearance of a man of some eminence and authority, they were the more easily intimidated and overcome.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 2:17. The shepherds - drove them — The verb יגרשים yegareshum, being in the masculine gender, seems to imply that the shepherds drove away the flocks of Reuel's daughters, and not the daughters themselves. The fact seems to be, that, as the daughters of Reuel filled the troughs and brought their flocks to drink, the shepherds drove those away, and, profiting by the young women's labour, watered their own cattle. Moses resisted this insolence, and assisted them to water their flocks, in consequence of which they were enabled to return much sooner than they were wont to do, Exodus 2:18.