Exodus 5:23

Ever since I came to Pharaoh to speak to him in your name, he has caused trouble for this people, and you have not set your people free at all.”

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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 Yahweh and said, “Lord, why have you caused trouble for this people? Why did you send me in the first place?

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Cross References

Job 22:17those who said to God, 'Depart from us'; 1 those who said, 'What can the Almighty do to us?' 1

Isaiah 26:17As a pregnant woman nears the time for her to give birth, 1 when she is in pain and cries out in her labor pains, 1 so we have been before you, Lord. 1

Jeremiah 11:21Therefore Yahweh says this concerning the people of Anathoth who are seeking your life, “They say, 'You must not prophesy in the name of Yahweh, or you will die by our hand.'

Hebrews 10:36For you need patience, so that you may receive what God has promised, after you have done his will. 1

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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