Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Exodus 3:19
I am sure he will not let you go — God sends his messengers to those whose obstinacy he foresees, that it may appear he would have them turn and live.
I am sure he will not let you go — God sends his messengers to those whose obstinacy he foresees, that it may appear he would have them turn and live.
Verse Exodus 3:19. _I AM SURE THAT THE KING OF EGYPT WILL NOT LET YOU GO,_ _NO, NOT BY A MIGHTY HAND_] When the facts detailed in this history have been considered in connection with the assertion as...
NO, NOT - See the marginal rendering. Others explain it to mean, Pharaoh will not let the people go even when severely smitten....
CHAPTER 3 THE BURNING BUSH AND THE CALL AND COMMISSION OF MOSES _ 1. The vision of the burning bush (Exodus 3:1)_ 2. Jehovah speaks and calls Moses (Exodus 3:4) 3. Moses' answer (Exodus 3:11) 4. T...
EXODUS 3:19 E (Exodus 3:19 F. amplified). FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT OF PLAGUES. For the spoiling of the Egyptians, _see Exodus 12:36_. Read in Exodu
NO, NOT, &c. Figure of speech _Epitasis_ (App-6)....
Exodus 3:1 TO EXODUS 4:17. Moses commissioned by Jehovah at Horeb to deliver His people. The dialogue between Jehovah and Moses, as in other cases (cf. Delitzsch on Genesis 12:1), must be pictured, no...
WILL NOT LET YOU GO, NO, NOT BY A MIGHTY HAND— _But by a strong hand._ Margin of our Bibles. i.e. But by the exertion of a strong and mighty power, which he will not be able to resist; and which shall...
THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 3 Now Mo-ses was keeping the flock of Je-thro his father-in-law, the priest of Mid-i-an: and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to the mountain of...
_AND THE LORD SAID, I HAVE SURELY SEEN THE AFFLICTION OF MY PEOPLE WHICH ARE IN EGYPT, AND HAVE HEARD THEIR CRY BY REASON OF THEIR TASKMASTERS; FOR I KNOW THEIR SORROWS;_ I have surely seen the affli...
3:19 not (a-15) Or 'unless it be.'...
NO, NOT BY A MIGHTY HAND] This means either 'in spite of the fact that I will lay My hand heavily upon him'; or better, with a slight change of reading, as LXX has it, 'unless I lay My hand heavily up...
THE CALL OF MOSES AND HIS COMMISSION TO BE THE DELIVERER OF ISRAEL 1. Horeb] The names Horeb and Sinai seem to be synonymous, though it has been suggested that Horeb is the name given to the entire mo...
EXODUS: ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION THE *ISRAELITES LEAVE EGYPT EXODUS CHAPTER S 1 TO 18 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 3 GOD CALLS MOSES 3:1 – 4:17 THE BUSH THAT BURNED – VERSES 1-6 V1 N...
I AM SURE. — Heb., _I know,_ which is more suitable, since it is God who speaks, and to Him the future is known with as absolute a certainty as the past. NO, NOT BY A MIGHTY HAND. — Rather, _not even...
וַ אֲנִ֣י יָדַ֔עְתִּי כִּ֠י לֹֽא ־יִתֵּ֥ן אֶת
Exodus 3:16. THE COMMISSION. Exodus 3:10, Exodus 3:16. We have already learned from the seventh verse that God commissioned Moses, only when He had Himself descended to deliver Israel. He sends non...
MOSES SENT TO DELIVER ISRAEL Exodus 3:13 How unlike this Moses was to the man who, forty years before, had acted with such impulsive haste, Acts 7:23. He had learned much since then, and most about h...
At last the actual call of God came to Moses. It found him fulfilling a daily duty, keeping the sheep of his father-in-law. There can be no doubt that in the silent solitudes of the wilderness he had...
Exodus 5:2....
There is hardly a book of the Old Testament that stands out in more decided contrast with the book of Genesis than the one which follows it most closely. And this is the more striking, because God emp...
19._And I am sure that the king of Egypt. _God forearms his people, lest, suffering a repulse at their first onset, they should retire, and abandon in despair the work enjoined to them. It was, indeed...
But at last God looks upon His people, and not only gives the faith that identifies itself with His people, but displays the power which delivers them. That Moses, who was rejected as a prince and a j...
AND I AM SURE THAT THE KING OF EGYPT WILL NOT LET YOU GO,.... Or "but" c "I am sure", c. though so reasonable a request was made him, yet it would not be granted this is observed to them, that they mi...
And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand. Ver. 19. _Will not let you go._] A sturdy rebel he was; but God tamed him, and took him down by those ten plagues,...
_Hath met with us_ Hath appeared to us, declaring his will, that we should do what follows. _I am sure he will not let you go_ God sends his messengers to those whose obstinacy he foresees, that it ma...
1 Moses keepeth Iethros flocke. 2 God appeareth to him in a burning bush. 9 He sendeth him to deliuer Israel. 14 The name of God. 15 His message to Israel. 1 NOWE Moses kept the flocke of Iethro...
THE PROMISE OF DELIVERANCE...
And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand. The omniscient God knew that Pharaoh would not permanently submit to Him, not even after the ten plagues, but would...
C. THE CALL OF MOSES. HIS REFUSAL AND OBEDIENCE. HIS ASSOCIATION WITH AARON AND THEIR FIRST MISSION TO THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL Exodus 2:3 1Now Moses kept [was pasturing] the flock of Jethro his father-i...
THE BURNING BUSH: MOSES CALLED TO EGYPT In tending Jethro's sheep Moses came to Mount Horeb, called "the mountain of God," because it signified Israel's relationship with God as under law. It is also...
NO NOT BY A MIGHTY HAND: Or, but by strong hand...
16-22 Moses' success with the elders of Israel would be good. God, who, by his grace, inclines the heart, and opens the ear, could say beforehand, They shall hearken to thy voice; for he would make t...
I AM SURE; I know it infallibly beforehand. NO, NOT BY A MIGHTY HAND; though he see and feel the miraculous and dreadful works of a strong, yea, almighty hand, yet he will not consent to your going; w...
We shall now resume the personal history of Moses, and contemplate him during that deeply-interesting period of his career which he spent in retirement-a period including, as we should say, forty of h...
Exodus 3:19 sure H3045 (H8804) king H4428 Egypt H4714 let H5414 (H8799) go H1980 (H8800) mighty...
MOSES IS THEREFORE TO GO TO THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL AND PROMISE A GLORIOUS DELIVERANCE (EXODUS 3:16). a Moses is to gather the elders and explain that Yahweh the God of their fathers has visited them a...
CONTENTS: Moses called as deliverer. The burning bush. CHARACTERS: Jethro, Moses, angel. CONCLUSION: Those qualified for great service may expect for a time to be confined to obscurity for special p...
Exodus 3:1. _Horeb_ and Sinai are the same mountain, almost surrounded by two branches of the Red sea. But it has two summits, Sinai on the east, and Horeb on the west. Justinian built a monastery her...
_I am sure the king of Egypt will not let you go._ THE DIVINE KNOWLEDGE OF THE SUCCESS OR OTHERWISE OF MINISTERIAL WORK I. That God is thoroughly acquainted with the moral obstinacy of men. 1. There...
EXODUS 3:1 Call of Moses. These chapters focus primarily on the call of Moses at the burning bush (Exodus 3:1). They also cover Moses’ return from Midian to Egypt: the peaceful departure from Jethro ...
EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 3:19 The strength of God’s HAND is the means by which he will bring Israel out of Egypt. ⇐...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 3:19_ THE DIVINE KNOWLEDGE OF THE SUCCESS OR OTHERWISE OF MINISTERIAL WORK I. THAT GOD IS THOROUGHLY ACQUAINTED WITH THE MORAL OBSTINACY OF MEN. “And I am...
THE CALL AND MISSION OF MOSES. EXPOSITION EXODUS 3:1 THE MISSION OF MOSES. After forty years of monotonous pastoral life, affording abundant opportunity for meditation, and for spiritual communion...
Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to mount Horeb (Exodus 3:1). Now n...
will not. Exodus 5:2 Exodus 7:4 no, not by a mighty hand. or, but by a strong hand. Exodus 6:1 Exodus 7:1...
FAITH AS EXEMPLIFIED IN MOSES Selections from Exodus 3:1; Exodus 6:1; Exodus 7:1; Exodus 8:1;...
THE DELIVERER Exodus 3:11 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We continue a study concerning Israel in _Egypt_ and God's great deliverance which He wrought through Moses. We wish to refer you to the 9th verse of ou...