God heard their groaning and remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The text says God saw the people of Israel and knew. This closing note sets up the deliverance that follows (Exodus 2:23-25).
Exodus 2:23–25 turns from Moses’s earlier flight to a new moment in Israel’s suffering. A long time passes, Egypt’s king dies, yet Israel’s hard labor continues and intensifies their cries. Their desperate appeal reaches God. These verses close the opening section about Israel’s oppression and Moses’s early life. Earlier, Israel’s forced labor and threat to their children set the crisis (Exodus 1), and Moses’s attempt to intervene leads to exile in Midian (Exodus 2:1–22).
Exodus 2:23–25 presents Israel’s suffering as long-lasting and unresolved even after the death of Egypt’s king. The text’s main movement is from Israel’s “sighing” and “cry” to God’s attentive response.
A careful answer keeps the immediate passage, the book's argument, and the whole-Bible storyline together, so the question is answered in context instead of as a detached idea.
Start with Exodus 2:23-25, then read the surrounding section so the answer stays connected to the passage's flow.
23It happened in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.
24God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
25God saw the children of Israel, and God was concerned about them.