Exodus 4:26

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 had he waited for the healing of the child.

Related Commentaries of 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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

He : i.e., Jehovah. him . Moses' son Eliezer. Compare Exodus 4:24 . Genesis 17:14 .
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.
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 remembran...
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 t...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

He let him go ] i.e. God let Moses go, removed his sickness and allowed him to recover. It was probably at this time that Moses sent his wife and ch...
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...
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 t...
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 b...
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...
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 l...
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...
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 rin...
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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Circumcision of the Son of Moses. B. C. 1491....
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...
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...
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 exact...
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 rem...
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 hi...
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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Moses dismissed by Jethro
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

So He let him go. Then she said, A bloody husband, or bridegroom, thou art, because of the circumcision. She vented her displeasure after the recov...
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 o...

²⁶ So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.

Related Commentaries of Exodus 4:26

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Exodus 4:26