Exodus 5:23

Ever since I went to Pharaoh to speak for you, he has been even harder on your people, and you haven't done anything to save them!”

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In The King James Version

For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done evil to this people; neither hast thou delivered thy people at all.

In Context

22Moses went back to the Lord and complained, “Why have you caused all this trouble for your own people, Lord? Was this why you sent me?

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Cross References

Job 22:17They had told God, ‘Get lost! What can the Almighty do to us?’

Isaiah 26:17Just as a pregnant woman giving birth tosses about and cries out in pain, that's what we were like in your presence, Lord.

Jeremiah 11:21So this is what the Lord says about the people of Anathoth who are trying to kill you, telling you, “Don't prophesy in the name of the Lord, or we'll kill you.”

Hebrews 10:36You need to be patient so that having done what God wants, you'll receive what he has promised.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 5:16-23

15 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants? 16 There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people. 17 But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to the Lord . 18 Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks. 19 And the officers of… Read the whole commentary →

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