17 And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
17 Some shepherds came along and drove them away, but Moses got up and came to their rescue and watered their flock.
17 The shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and saved them, and watered their flock.
17 When some shepherds came and chased the girls off, Moses came to their rescue and helped them water their sheep.
17 Then the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
17 But some other shepherds came and chased them away. So Moses jumped up and rescued the girls from the shepherds. Then he drew water for their flocks.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Exodus 2:17
Commentary on Exodus 2:16-22
(Read Exodus 2:16-22)
Moses found shelter in Midian. He was ready to help Reuel's daughters to water their flocks, although bred in learning and at court. Moses loved to be doing justice, and to act in defence of such as he saw injured, which every man ought to do, as far as it is in his power. He loved to be doing good; wherever the providence of God casts us, we should desire and try to be useful; and when we cannot do the good we would, we must be ready to do the good we can. Moses commended himself to the prince of Midian; who married one of his daughters to Moses, by whom he had a son, called Gershom, "a stranger there," that he might keep in remembrance the land in which he had been a stranger.