Chapter 5:
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 Genesis Leviticus
Exodus 5
Concise Complete
Pharaoh's displeasure, He increases the tasks of the
Israelites. (1-9) The sufferings of the Israelites, Moses' complaint to God.
(10-23)
Verses 1-9 God will
own his people, though poor and despised, and will find a time to plead their
cause. Pharaoh treated all he had heard with contempt. He had no knowledge of
Jehovah, no fear of him, no love to him, and therefore refused to obey him. Thus
Pharaoh's pride, ambition, covetousness, and political knowledge, hardened him
to his own destruction. What Moses and Aaron ask is very reasonable, only to go
three days' journey into the desert, and that on a good errand. We will
sacrifice unto the Lord our God. Pharaoh was very unreasonable, in saying that
the people were idle, and therefore talked of going to sacrifice. He thus
misrepresents them, that he might have a pretence to add to their burdens. To
this day we find many who are more disposed to find fault with their neighbours,
for spending in the service of God a few hours spared from their wordly
business, than to blame others, who give twice the time to sinful pleasures.
Pharaoh's command was barbarous. Moses and Aaron themselves must get to the
burdens. Persecutors take pleasure in putting contempt and hardship upon
ministers. The usual tale of bricks must be made, without the usual allowance of
straw to mix with the clay. Thus more work was to be laid upon the men, which,
if they performed, they would be broken with labour; and if not, they would be
punished.
Verses 10-23 The
Egyptian task-masters were very severe. See what need we have to pray that we
may be delivered from wicked men. The head-workmen justly complained to Pharaoh:
but he taunted them. The malice of Satan has often represented the service and
worship of God, as fit employment only for those who have nothing else to do,
and the business only of the idle; whereas, it is the duty of those who are most
busy in the world. Those who are diligent in doing sacrifice to the Lord, will,
before God, escape the doom of the slothful servant, though with men they do
not. The Israelites should have humbled themselves before God, and have taken to
themselves the shame of their sin; but instead of that, they quarrel with those
who were to be their deliverers. Moses returned to the Lord. He knew that what
he had said and done, was by God's direction; and therefore appeals to him. When
we find ourselves at any time perplexed in the way of our duty, we ought to go
to God, and lay open our case before him by fervent prayer. Disappointments in
our work must not drive us from our God, but still we must ponder why they are
sent.
Chapter 5:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| Wesley
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 Genesis Leviticus
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