Exodus 17:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me. ”

Exodus 17:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to (c) stone me. (c) How ready the people are to slay the true prophets for their own purposes and how s...
Exodus 17:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 27. Water from the Rock (Exodus 17 :1 P (Rephidim), Exodus 17:1 b - Exodus 17:2 a (strove, strive) E, Exodus 17:3 and Exodus 17:2 b (tempt) J, Exodus 17:4 E, Exodus 17:5 a (peopl...
Exodus 17:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

they be almost ready . Hebrew "yet. little and they will". Moses, David, Jeremiah, Stephen, Paul, and the Lord Jesus suffered from stoning or its threatening
Exodus 17:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

4. And Moses cried. This cry seems not to have been conformed to the true model of prayer, but to have been mixed with confused complaint, to which Moses was impelled by the deep perturbatio...
Exodus 17:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.
Exodus 17:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me. Moses cried unto the Lord. His language, instead of betraying any signs of resentmen...
Exodus 17:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Rephidim. Murmuring for Water. Opposition of Amalek Leaving the maritime plain the Israelites now strike inland, and after halting at Dophkah and Alush (see Numbers 33:12-13 ) they come to Rephid...
Exodus 17:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

They be almost ready to stone me. — Heb., Yet a little and they will stone me. On tumultuary stoning, see the second Note on Exodus 8:26 .
Exodus 17:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Water from the Rock; Victory over Amalek Exodus 17:1-16 From the smitten rock flowed the water for the thirsty hosts. So the Rock of Ages was smitten, and from His riven side has flowed out blo...
Exodus 17:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Another trial of their faith came to the people in the lack of water. In view of the fact that they had been provided with bread and flesh, it would seem as if they would have learned enough to be ab...
Exodus 17:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Observe the plan of Moses; he seeks relief in prayer. Reader! may you and I imitate him in the provocations of life. When men reproach God will comfort; and if they will not hear, God will. Psalms 5...
Exodus 17:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Moses cried unto the Lord ..... Or prayed unto him, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan; which shows the distress he was thrown into, the vehemence of his prayer, and perhaps the loud and lam...
Exodus 17:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me. Ver. 4. Ready to stone me. ] Well might he ask with our Saviour, "For which of my good wo...
Exodus 17:4 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

WATER FROM THE ROCK (vs.1-7) Bread has been provided for the people. Can God provide water also? Why did they not simply appeal to Him in fullest confidence that He would answer just as fully as...
Exodus 17:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Israelites Murmur for Water. B. C. 1491. 1 And all the congregation of the children...
Exodus 17:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
Exodus 17:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Water From the Rock ( Exodus 17:1-7 ). The children of Israel leave the wilderness of Sinai and encamp in Rephidim. Its site is uncertain. There they find themselves without water. Considering the...
Exodus 17:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 17:1 . After their journeys.]—Literally, “their breakings up,” alluding to nomad life, and bringing vividly before the mind the pulling up of the tent-stakes and gener...
Exodus 17:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Exodus 17:1 . Rephidim. The plain before Horeb, where the Israelites encamped before they removed to the plain opposite Sinai. Exodus 17:6 . Thou shalt smite the rock. Horeb was the place wher...
Exodus 17:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

Thou shalt smite the rock. Horeb; or, great mercies from unlikely sources I. The secular department of human history will furnish abundant illustrations of this principle. 1. Does intelligen...
Exodus 17:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THE SECOND MUMURING FOR WATER . When the Israelites had come to Rephidim which was probably in the Wady Feiran, near its junction with the Wady Esh-Sheikh, complaint arose, n...
Exodus 17:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Murmuring at Massah and Meribah
Exodus 17:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

cried Exodus 14:15 Exodus 15:25 Numbers 11:11 almost Numbers 14:10 Numbers 16:19 1 Samuel 30:6 John 8:59 John 10:31 Acts 7:50 Acts 14:19

Exodus 17:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Exodus 17:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 17:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Exodus 17:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 17:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Exodus 17:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Exodus 17:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 17:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Exodus 17:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Exodus 17:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Exodus 17:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Exodus 17:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Exodus 17:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Exodus 17:4 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 17:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Exodus 17:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Exodus 17:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 17:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Exodus 17:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Exodus 17:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

Exodus 17:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Exodus 17:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Exodus 17:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge