Exodus 2:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

And he said, &c.— See Acts 7:25. A Jesuit, (Berruyer) who has written the history of the people of God, thinks it highly probable, that these two quarrelsome Hebrews were Jannes and Jambres, mentioned by the Apostle, 2 Timothy 3:8 as having withstood Moses, because they would not acknowledge him to have been a proper judge of their quarrel; though God had designed him the judge of all his people. When it is said, that Moses feared, this no way contradicts what is said, Hebrews 11:27 by faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for this refers wholly to his conducting the people from Egypt, and his contempt of Pharaoh and all his hosts.

Exodus 2:14

14 And he said, Who made thee a princeb and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.