Exodus 5:23

For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble on this people. You have not rescued your people 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 returned to the LORD, and said, “Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent me?

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Cross References

Job 22:17who said to God, ‘Depart from us!’ and, ‘What can the Almighty do for us?’

Isaiah 26:17Just as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs, so we have been before you, LORD.

Jeremiah 11:21“Therefore the LORD says concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, ‘You shall not prophesy in the LORD’s name, that you not die by our hand’—

Hebrews 10:36For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

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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