Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Exodus 5:5
The people are many — Therefore your injury to me is the greater, in attempting to make them rest from their labours.
The people are many — Therefore your injury to me is the greater, in attempting to make them rest from their labours.
Verse Exodus 5:5. _THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND NOW_ ARE _MANY_] The sanguinary edict had no doubt been long before repealed, or they could not have multiplied so greatly....
3. MOSES AND AARON IN EGYPT Chapter S 4:29-5:23 Before the Elders and Before Pharaoh _ 1. Before the elders of Israel (Exodus 4:29)_ 2. Before Pharaoh, and his answer (Exodus 5:1) 3. The increased...
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 their burdens. The bulk of the sto
THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 5 And afterward Mo-ses and Aar-on came, and said unto Pha-raoh, Thus saith Je-ho-vah, the God of Is-ra-el, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wi...
_AND PHARAOH SAID, BEHOLD, THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND NOW ARE MANY, AND YE MAKE THEM REST FROM THEIR BURDENS._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
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 that ensued: cp. Psalms 78:12; Psalms 78:43; THE LORD GOD OF...
EXODUS: ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION THE *ISRAELITES LEAVE EGYPT EXODUS CHAPTER S 1 TO 18 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 5 MOSES AND AARON VISIT *PHARAOH – VERSES 1-5 V1 Afterwards Moses an...
AND PHARAOH SAID. — Moses and Aaron having retired, _re infectâ,_ Pharaoh turns to the officers of his court and reproaches them with allowing the Hebrews to be idle. They have time to hold meetings ...
וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר פַּרְעֹ֔ה הֵן ־רַבִּ֥ים עַתָּ֖ה ע
CHAPTER V. _ PHARAOH REFUSES._ Exodus 5:1. After forty years of obscurity and silence, Moses re-enters the magnificent halls where he had formerly turned his back upon so great a place. The rod of a...
THE REQUEST TO WORSHIP JEHOVAH ANSWERED BY OPPRESSION Exodus 5:1 The bondage of Israel in Egypt is an apt type of our bondage to sin. See John 8:34; Romans 7:23. The weary tyranny of our besetting si...
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 which Pharaoh passed. Here Moses and Aaron came to...
And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now [are] many, and ye (c) make them rest from their burdens. (c) As though you would rebel....
_Increased, the edict against children being abrogated. (Menochius) --- He insists upon their labour being so intense and toilsome, as to thin their ranks._...
This complaint of the idleness of the Israelites was false. See Exodus 1:11....
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...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 5 THROUGH 13. At the news of the goodness of God, the people adore Him; but the struggle against the power of evil is another matter. Satan will not let the p...
AND PHARAOH SAID, BEHOLD, THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND NOW ARE MANY,.... So that if some were taken off, as suggested, there were enough of them to do business and so he cared not; but if allowed to go, the...
_And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now [are] many, and ye make them rest from their burdens._ Ver. 5. _The people of the land now are many._] _Et nihil agendo male agere discent._ Iphi...
_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; _the officers_ Were Israelites employed under them...
1 Pharaoh chideth Moses and Aaron for their message. 5 Hee encreaseth the Israelites taske. 15 Hee checketh their complaints. 19 They cry out vpon Moses and Aaron. 22 Moses complaineth to God. 1...
And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens, you want to secure for them a vacation, a period of rest, and their great numbers caused such a...
THE TASKMASTERS INSTRUCTED TO BURDEN THE PEOPLE...
D. MOSES AND AARON BEFORE PHARAOH. THE SEEMINGLY MISCHIEVOUAS EFFECT OF THEIR DIVINE MESSAGE, AND THE DISCOURAGMENT OF THE PEOPLE AND THE MESSENGERS THEMSELVES. GOD REVERSES THIS EFFECT NU SOLEMNLY PR...
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 the Lord God of Israel has for him, "Let My people go, t...
1-9 God will own his people, though poor and despised, and will find a time to plead their cause. Pharaoh treated all he had heard with contempt. He had no knowledge of Jehovah, no fear of him, no lo...
Ver. 5. The Israelites in this land are very numerous, and therefore it were a madness in me to permit them all to meet and go together as you desire, which may tend to the ruin of my whole kingdom, a...
The effect of the first appeal to Pharaoh seemed ought but encouraging. The thought of losing Israel made him clutch them with greater eagerness and watch them with greater vigilance. Whenever Satan's...
Exodus 5:5 Pharaoh H6547 said H559 (H8799) people H5971 land H776 many H7227 rest H7673 (H8689) labor...
PHARAOH'S VINDICTIVE RESPONSE TO THEIR APPROACH (EXODUS 5:5). a Pharaoh says, the people of the land are many and you make them rest from their burdens (Exodus 5:5). b Pharaoh commands officers and...
CONTENTS: Moses' first contest with Pharaoh. CHARACTERS: Moses, Aaron, Pharaoh, taskmasters. CONCLUSION: God, in coming toward His people in mercy may sometimes employ strange methods so that people...
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 mythology of the gentiles supposed every city, and e...
EXODUS 5:1 Moses and Aaron: Initial Request. This section describes Moses’ and Aaron’s initial audience and request before Pharaoh (Exodus 5:1) and the Lord’s promises and encouragement in light of Ph...
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; “with processions and dancing,” of we keep close to the prim...
FIRST APPEAL OF MOSES TO PHARAOH, AND INCREASE OF THE OPPRESSION. EXPOSITION EXODUS 5:1 Having secured the adhesion of the Israelitish people, Moses and Aaron sought an intervie
And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told the Pharaoh, Thus saith Jehovah God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness. And Pharaoh said, Who is Jehovah,...
Exodus 1:7 Proverbs 14:28...
THE CONTROVERSY BETWEEN PHARAOH AND GOD Exodus 5:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The concluding verses of chapter 4, which link our last message with this one, are most interesting. It would hardly do to pass...