Exodus 4:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

EXODUS CHAPTER 4 Moses's objection, Exodus 4:1. The answer, Exodus 4:2. God turns his rod into a serpent, Exodus 4:3-5. He adds another sign, Exodus 4:6-8. And lest they would not believe, water is turned into blood, Exodus 4:9. Moses's objection, Exodus 4:10. God argues with him, Exodus 4:11. God's command and promise, Exodus 4:12. Moses's answer, Exodus 4:13. God is angry, and enjoins Aaron to the same employment, Exodus 4:14; tells what Aaron should be, and what Moses should do, Exodus 4:15-17. Moses returning to Jethro, craves leave to go to Egypt to see his brethren: Jethro's grant, Exodus 4:18. Moses having taken the rod of God, departs with his wife and children into Egypt, Exodus 4:20. God tells him what he should say to Pharaoh, Exodus 4:22,23. God seeketh to kill Moses, Exodus 4:24. Zipporah with a sharp knife cuts off her son's foreskin and what she said, Exodus 4:25,26. God commands Aaron to meet Moses, Exodus 4:27. Moses declares to Aaron both what he had heard and seen, Exodus 4:28. They gather together the elders of Israel, Exodus 4:29; and Aaron speaks all the words and does all the signs which God commanded, Exodus 4:30. The people believe, Exodus 4:31. They will not believe me; which he conjectured both from reason, because the greatness and strangeness of the deliverance made it seem incredible; and their minds were so oppressed with cares and labours, that it was not likely they could raise them up to any such expectation; and from the experience which he had of them forty years before, when their deliverance by his means and interest at court seemed much more credible than now it did.