John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 2. Moses called unto all Israel , etc.] He had been speaking before to the heads of them, and delivered at different times what is before recorded; but now he summoned the whole body of the people together, a solemn covenant being to be made between God and them; or such things being to be made known unto them as were of universal concernment: and said unto them ; what is in this chapter; which is only a preparation or introduction to what he had to declare unto them in the following: ye have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt ; the Targum of Jonathan is, “what the Word of the Lord did;” for all the wonderful things there done in Egypt were done by the essential Word of God, Christ, the Son of God; who appeared to Moses in the bush, and sent him to Egypt, and by him and Aaron wrought the miracles there; which many now present had seen, and were then old enough to take notice of, and could remember, though their fathers then in being were now dead: unto Pharaoh and unto all his servants, and unto all his land ; the plagues he inflicted on the person of Pharaoh, and on all his courtiers, and on all the people in Egypt, for they reached the whole land.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-9 - Both former mercies, and fresh mercies, should be thought on by us a motives to obedience. The hearing ear, and seeing eye, and the understanding heart, are the gift of God. All that have them, have the from him. God gives not only food and raiment, but wealth and larg possessions, to many to whom he does not give grace. Many enjoy the gifts, who have not hearts to perceive the Giver, nor the true desig and use of the gifts. We are bound, in gratitude and interest, as wel as in duty and faithfulness, to keep the words of the covenant.
Original Hebrew ויקרא7121 משׁה4872 אל413 כל3605 ישׂראל3478 ויאמר559 אלהם413 אתם859 ראיתם7200 את853 כל3605 אשׁר834 עשׂה6213 יהוה3068 לעיניכם5869 בארץ776 מצרים4714 לפרעה6547 ולכל3605 עבדיו5650 ולכל3605 ארצו׃776
