Just as the infant Mo'ses had been saved from drowning by the LORD'S guidance upon two different occasions, so he was saved from slavery of his people by being raised in the palace of the king. Had he been found by the E'gyp-tian officers in his parents' home, he would have been thrown into the river Nile; had Pha'raoh's daughter not found him when she did, he soon would have been drowned in the same river when the basket in which he floated finally sank.
It was truly a miracle which saved Mo'ses from the waters of the Nile, and it was a miracle equally great which preserved him from the evils and idolatry of the E'gyp-tians by letting him be brought up under the care of his God-fearing mother. The LORD also made it possible for him to enjoy all the advantages of education which the adopted son of an E'gyp-tian princess could gain through wealth and high position. Thus the very king who sought to destroy Is'ra-el was led by the providence of God to be the means of training the child who would soon become the deliverer of the people held in bondage.
