Exodus 2:8 (BSB)

“Go ahead,” Pharaoh’s daughter told her. And the girl went and called the boy’s mother.

From Exodus 2. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Exodus 2:8

  • Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Exodus 2:5-10: Here is, I. Moses saved from perishing. Come see the place where that great man lay when he was a little child; he lay in a bulrush-basket by the river's side. Had he been left to lie there, he must have perished in a little time with hunger, if he had not been sooner washed into the river or devoured by a crocodile.
  • John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Exodus 2:8: And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, go,.... She fell in at once with the proposal, being, no doubt, overruled, by the providence of God, to agree to have such a person called: and the maid went and called the child's mother; and her own, whose name was Jochebed the wife of Amram, as observed in Exo 2:1.
  • Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Exodus 2:8: And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother. (c) Man's counsel cannot hinder that which God has determined shall come to pass.
  • Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Exodus 2:6-8: Exo 2:6-8 The exposure of the child at once led the king’s daughter to conclude that it was one of the Hebrews’ children. The fact that she took compassion on the weeping child, and notwithstanding the king’s command (Exo 1:22) took it up and had it brought up (of course, without the knowledge of the king), may be accounted for from the love to children...