Exodus 5:22 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou so evil entreated this people? why is it that thou hast sent me? ”

Exodus 5:22 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 5:1 to Exodus 6:1 ( Exodus 5:1 f. and Exodus 5:4 E, the rest J). Pharaoh's first refusal to let Israel go, and his increase of their burdens. The bulk of the story is taken from J,...
Exodus 5:22 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

LORD . One of the 134 places where Jehovah in the Primitive Text was altered to Adonai. See App-32. wherefore... ? why... ? Figure of speech Erotesis (App-6). We , like Moses, are full of sim...
Exodus 5:22 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

22. And Moses returned. This return unto the Lord is here used in a bad sense for forsaking his office; for Moses is not related to have either calmly prayed, or, as in a difficult emergency...
Exodus 5:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou so evil entreated this people? why is it that thou hast sent me? And Moses returned unto the Lord - This may imply, either...
Exodus 5:22 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And Moses returned unto the Lord— This either implies, that there was some particular place, where the Lord condescended to meet with, and reveal himself to Moses; or else we must understand the wo...
Exodus 5:22 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Increase of the Oppression 1. Pharaoh ] probably P. Merenptah. See on Exodus 1:8 . His court may have been at Zoan or Tanis during the events that ensued: cp. Psalms 78:12 ; Psalms 78:43 ; Th...
Exodus 5:22 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Moses returned unto the Lord. — He could find nothing to say to the officers. The course of events had as much disappointed him as it had them All that he could do was to complain to God, with a fr...
Exodus 5:22 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER V. PHARAOH REFUSES. Exodus 5:1-23 . After forty years of obscurity and silence, Moses re-enters the magnificent halls where he had formerly turned his back upon so great a place. The...
Exodus 5:22 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Moses Appeals from Pharaoh to God Exodus 5:15-23 ; Exodus 6:1 God's way is to bring men to an end of themselves before He arises to their help. Our efforts to deliver ourselves only end in inc...
Exodus 5:22 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Here we have the last picture of the people in bondage. As we follow the history, we shall be particularly interested in noticing the process through which Pharaoh passed. Here Moses and Aaron came t...
Exodus 5:22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

It is right in all our distresses to return to the Lord. Provided we do not complain of God, we are commanded to complain to God. See Isaiah 37:14 . How different this from the conduct of Jeremiah....
Exodus 5:22 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

THE UNFAILING RESOURCE ‘And Moses returned unto the Lord, and said,’ etc. Exodus 5:22 Some lessons are embedded in this story of perennial value. I. We are reminded of the difficulties en...
Exodus 5:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Moses returned unto the Lord ,.... Bishop Patrick thinks, that this not only intimates that the Lord had appeared to Moses since he came into Egypt, but that there was some settled place where h...
Exodus 5:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou [so] evil entreated this people? why [is] it [that] thou hast sent me? Ver. 22. And Moses returned unto the Lord. ] He turned...
Exodus 5:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Moses returned unto the Lord And expostulated with him. He knew not how to reconcile the providence with the promise, and the commission he had received. Is this God's coming down to deliver Israe...
Exodus 5:22 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

THE FIRST APPEAL TO PHARAOH AND THE RESULTS (vs.1-23) Moses and Aaron then gain an audience with Pharaoh, and simply tell him the message that the Lord God of Israel has for him, "Let My people g...
Exodus 5:22 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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...
Exodus 5:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Moses returned unto the Lord, to expostulate with him, and pray to him. To the people he saith nothing, but meekly passeth by their severe censures, as forced from them by intolerable oppression; and...
Exodus 5:22 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 5:23 . Neither has thou delivered thy people at all] This, though strong, is scarcely so bold as the original, which here makes an effective use of its preplaced infiniti...
Exodus 5:22 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Exodus 5:22-23 When Moses saw the vision at Horeb, he had passed many more years in the world than Jacob at the time of his vision at Bethel; he knew much of which Jacob was ignorant, and had expe...
Exodus 5:22 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Exodus 5:1 . Moses and Aaron, accompanied by the elders, as in Exodus 6:26 , went to Pharaoh. Exodus 5:2 . Who is Jehovah? I know not JEHOVAH. The mythology of the gentiles supposed every cit...
Exodus 5:22 - The Biblical Illustrator

Why is it that Thou hast sent me? The sorrows of Christian service There is a tone of unspeakable sadness in this complaint of Moses. He had been crossed in his aims, his Divinely-inspired hope...
Exodus 5:22 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Exodus 5:22 , Exodus 5:23 The two brothers made no reply to the words of the officers. Perhaps their hearts were too full for speech; perhaps they knew not what to say. What...
Exodus 5:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Officers Reproach Moses and Aaron
Exodus 5:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

returned Exodus 17:4 1 Samuel 30:6 Psalms 73:25 Jeremiah 12:1 why is it Numbers 11:14 Numbers 11:15 1 Kings 19:4 1 Kings 19:10 Jeremiah 20:7 Habakkuk 2:3
Exodus 5:22 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Controversy Between Pharaoh and God Exodus 5:1-23 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The concluding verses of chapter 4, which link our last message with this one, are most interesting. It would hardly do...
Exodus 5:22 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

He expostulated with him. He knew not how to reconcile the providence with the promise, and the commission he had received. Is this God's coming down to deliver Israel? Must I who hoped to be a ble...

Exodus 5:22 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 5:22 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Exodus 5:22 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 5:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Exodus 5:22 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Exodus 5:22 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 5:22 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Exodus 5:22 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Exodus 5:22 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Exodus 5:22 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Exodus 5:22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Exodus 5:22 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Exodus 5:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Exodus 5:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Exodus 5:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Exodus 5:22 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 5:22 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Exodus 5:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Exodus 5:22 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Exodus 5:22 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Exodus 5:22 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Exodus 5:22 - The Biblical Illustrator

Exodus 5:22 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Exodus 5:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Exodus 5:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 5:22 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Exodus 5:22 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes