Exodus 5:6

taskmasters. Compare Exodus 1:11, Egyptian.

officers: an Egyptian title, scribes, who kept account of work done.

Related Commentaries of Exodus 5:6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Their officers - Or scribes. Hebrews able to keep accounts in writing, appointed by the Egyptian superintendents, and responsible to them for the...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their (d) officers, saying, (d) Who were of the Israelites, and had charge to...
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 thei...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

6. And Pharaoh commanded. We shall more clearly perceive, as the narrative proceeds, that these taskmasters and officers were taken from amo...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying, The task-masters of the people and their officers - The...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Their officers— See verses 14, 15, 19.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying, Pharaoh commanded. It was a natural consequence...
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 th...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The taskmasters are the Egyptian officials, and the officers (lit. 'scribes') are the Hebrew clerks under them whose duty it was to keep an accou...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Taskmasters... officers. — Three grades of officials are mentioned as employed in superintending the forced labours of the Hebrews — (1) “lords of...
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 f...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Request to Worship Jehovah Answered by Oppression Exodus 5:1-14 The bondage of Israel in Egypt is an apt type of our bondage to sin. See J...
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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

This complaint of the idleness of the Israelites was false. See Exodus 1:11 .
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people ,.... Who were Egyptians, and whom Pharaoh sent for the same day, to give them orde...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying, Ver. 6. And Pharaoh commanded. ] He raged the more f...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The people are many Therefore your injury to me is greater, in attempting to make them rest from their labours. The task- masters Were Egyptians;...
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 th...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

3 And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto th...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The task-masters were Egyptians, and the officers were Israelites, under-officers to them, Exodus 5:14,15,19 .
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Pharaoh's Vindictive Response to Their Approach ( Exodus 5:5-19 ). a Pharaoh says, the people of the land are many and you make them rest from t...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 5:1 . Hold a feast] That is, of course, a religious festival,—a “holyday,” as the same word is rendered Psalms 42:4 ; “w...
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 Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Exodus 5:6-2 Rulers are not always content simply to refuse inconvenient demands. Sometimes they set to work with much ingenuity...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Taskmasters Instructed to Burden the People
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters, the overseers who drove them to their work and while they were at work, and their officers, sayi...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

taskmasters. oppressors. Exodus 5:10 Exodus 5:13 Exodus 5:14 Exodus 5:15 Exodus 5:19 Exodus 1:11 Proverbs 12:10 officers. Exodus 2:14...
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...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The task — masters, were Egyptians, the officers were Israelites employed under them.

⁶ And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,

Related Commentaries of Exodus 5:6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy 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

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Exodus 5:6