Exodus 4:26 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision. ”

Exodus 4:26 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

So he let him go - i. e. God withdrew His visitation from Moses. Moses sent Zipporah and her children back to Jethro before he went to Egypt, Exodus 18:2 . The journey would have been delayed...
Exodus 4:26 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 4:24-26 J. Moses Threatened with Death Decause Uncircumcised. This is an old and strange boulder of tradition. The incident here follows Exodus 4:20 a. It appears to relate in strongly...
Exodus 4:26 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

He : i.e., Jehovah. him . Moses' son Eliezer. Compare Exodus 4:24 . Genesis 17:14 .
Exodus 4:26 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art , because of the circumcision.
Exodus 4:26 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision. So he let him go. Moses recovered; but the remembrance of this critical period in his life would stimu...
Exodus 4:26 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Signs Attesting the Commission of Moses. His Return to Egypt Moses still hesitates, and now objects that the péople will not believe him when he tells them that Jehovah has sent him. He is granted...
Exodus 4:26 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

So he let him go. — God let Moses go, i.e., allowed him to recover — accepted Zipporah’s act as sufficient, albeit tardy, reparation, and spared the life of her husband. Then she said. — When...
Exodus 4:26 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

MOSES OBEYS . Exodus 4:18-31 . Moses is now commissioned: he is to go to Egypt, and Aaron is coming thence to meet him. Yet he first returns to Midian, to Jethro, who is both his employer and...
Exodus 4:26 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Moses and Aaron Announce God's Purpose to Israel Exodus 4:18-31 So often the keenest tests of a man's fitness for his life-work are furnished by his behavior in his home. It may be that Zippora...
Exodus 4:26 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

A further difficulty was now declared. The man who first doubted himself and then doubted because of his ignorance of God now doubted because of the people to whom he was to be sent. God had told him...
Exodus 4:26 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Exodus 18:2-5 ; Joshua 5:2-3 . It is difficult to determine whether Zipporah meant this in anger, or whether it were an instance of faith. If the latter, it carries with it a sweet testimony of the...
Exodus 4:26 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

So he let him go ,.... That is, the Lord let Moses go; suffered him to go on his journey without any further interruption; as the Targums, "it", the angel, ceased from him, or left him; or the disea...
Exodus 4:26 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband [thou art], because of the circumcision. Ver. 26. A bloody husband thou art. ] This peal she rings oft in his ears, and so taught him patience. “...
Exodus 4:26 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

God's message to Moses has been so clear that it cannot be mistaken. He has made no secret of the opposition of Pharaoh, but has declared positively that He would enable Israel to triumph over this a...
Exodus 4:26 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Circumcision of the Son of Moses. B. C. 1491. 24 And it came to pass by the way in...
Exodus 4:26 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

So he let him go; or, he , i.e. God, or the destroying angel sent from God, departed from him , i.e. from Moses, and removed the tokens of God's indignation, the sickness or stroke laid upon him....
Exodus 4:26 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Three Sons ( Exodus 4:21-26 ). This section could be described as being at the heart of the book of Exodus, for it deals with three attitudes that lie at the heart of God's dealings with the w...
Exodus 4:26 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 4:25 . A bloody husband.] An unfortunate rendering, bearing an opprobrious tone foreign to the Hebrew which is more exactly (with Benisch, Keil. Young, and others), “A bri...
Exodus 4:26 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Exodus 4:1 . They will not believe me. Then the Lord directed him to work a miracle, the most convincing evidence of divine authority, for the removal of unbelief. Exodus 4:2 . A rod. Milton h...
Exodus 4:26 - The Biblical Illustrator

Zipporah took a sharp stone. Neglected duty a hindrance to the performance of religious work I. Moses had neglected the duty of circumcising his son. II. That this neglect of duty introduced...
Exodus 4:26 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Exodus 4:24-2 The transition is abrupt from the promise of triumph over Pharaoh to the threat of instant death. But we must bear in mind that some days may have elapsed between t...
Exodus 4:26 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Moses dismissed by Jethro
Exodus 4:26 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

So he let him go — The destroying angel withdrew. But still Zipporah cannot forget, but will unreasonably call Moses a bloody husband, because he obliged her to circumcise the child; and upon this...

Exodus 4:26 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Exodus 4:26 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 4:26 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Exodus 4:26 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Exodus 4:26 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Exodus 4:26 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 4:26 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Exodus 4:26 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Exodus 4:26 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Exodus 4:26 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Exodus 4:26 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Exodus 4:26 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Exodus 4:26 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Exodus 4:26 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 4:26 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Exodus 4:26 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Exodus 4:26 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 4:26 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Exodus 4:26 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Exodus 4:26 - The Biblical Illustrator

Exodus 4:26 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Exodus 4:26 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Exodus 4:26 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes