Kindness Linked to Deliverance from Egypt

"The Psalmist tells us why God delivered Israel from Egypt: 

He brought forth His people with joy, 

and His chosen with gladness: 

and gave them the lands of the heathen: 

and they inherited the labor of the people; 

--that they might observe His statutes, 

--and keep His laws."  

Psalm 105:43-45. 

 

 

Thus in Deuteronomy 24:17, 18 the fact of

their deliverance from Egypt is cited as placing them under special obligation to show kindness to the widow and the fatherless: "thou shalt not pervert the judgment ofthe stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge: but thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the Lord thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing." Patriarchs&ProphetsAppendix