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Selected Verse: Exodus 5:1 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ex 5:1 |
Strong Concordance |
And afterward [0310] Moses [04872] and Aaron [0175] went in [0935], and told [0559] Pharaoh [06547], Thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068] God [0430] of Israel [03478], Let my people [05971] go [07971], that they may hold a feast [02287] unto me in the wilderness [04057]. |
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King James |
And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
FIRST INTERVIEW WITH PHARAOH. (Exo. 5:1-23)
Moses and Aaron went in--As representatives of the Hebrews, they were entitled to ask an audience of the king, and their thorough Egyptian training taught them how and when to seek it.
and told Pharaoh--When introduced, they delivered a message in the name of the God of Israel. This is the first time He is mentioned by that national appellation in Scripture. It seems to have been used by divine direction (Exo 4:2) and designed to put honor on the Hebrews in their depressed condition (Heb 11:16). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Pharaoh - This king, probably Tothmosis II, the great grandson of Aahmes Exo 1:8, the original persecutor of the Israelites, must have been resident at this time in a city, probably Tanis Exo 2:5, of Lower Egypt, situated on the Nile.
The Lord God - Yahweh God of Israel demanded the services of His people. The demand, according to the general views of the pagans, was just and natural; the Israelites could not offer the necessary sacrifices in the presence of Egyptians. |
| The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
Let my people
Compare (Exo 4:22); (Exo 4:23).
Possibly Moses and Aaron shrank from delivering the message concerning the firstborn. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| Pharaoh's Answer to the Request of Moses and Aaron. - Exo 5:1-5. When the elders of Israel had listened with gladness and gratitude to the communications of Moses and Aaron respecting the revelation which Moses had received from Jehovah, that He was now about to deliver His people out of their bondage in Egypt; Moses and Aaron proceeded to Pharaoh, and requested in the name of the God of Israel, that he would let the people of Israel go and celebrate a festival in the wilderness in honour of their God. When we consider that every nation presented sacrifices to its deities, and celebrated festivals in their honour, and that they had all their own modes of worship, which were supposed to be appointed by the gods themselves, so that a god could not be worshipped acceptably in every place; the demand presented to Pharaoh on the part of the God of the Israelites, that he would let His people go into the wilderness and sacrifice to Him, appears so natural and reasonable, that Pharaoh could not have refused their request, if there had been a single trace of the fear of God in his heart. But what was his answer? "Who is Jehovah, that I should listen to His voice, to let Israel go? I know not Jehovah." There was a certain truth in these last words. The God of Israel had not yet made Himself known to him. But this was no justification. Although as a heathen he might naturally measure the power of the God by the existing condition of His people, and infer from the impotence of the Israelites that their God must be also weak, he would not have dared to refuse the petition of the Israelites, to be allowed to sacrifice to their God or celebrate a sacrificial festival, if he had had any faith in gods at all. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Let my people go - Moses, in treating with the elders of Israel, is directed to call God the God of their fathers; but, in treating with Pharaoh, they call him the God of Israel, and it is the first time we find him called so in scripture. He is called the God of Israel, the person, Gen 33:20, but here it is Israel the people. They are just beginning to be formed into a people when God is called their God. Let my people go - They were God's people, and therefore Pharaoh ought not to detain them in bondage. And he expected services and sacrifices from them, and therefore they must have leave to go where they could freely exercise their religion, without giving offence to, or receiving offence from, the Egyptians. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
And afterward Moses and Aaron went - This chapter is properly a continuation of the preceding, as the succeeding is a continuation of this; and to preserve the connection of the facts they should be read together.
How simply, and yet with what authority, does Moses deliver his message to the Egyptian king! Thus saith Jehovah, God of Israel, Let my people go. It is well in this, as in almost every other case where יהוה Jehovah occurs, to preserve the original word: our using the word Lord is not sufficiently expressive, and often leaves the sense indistinct. |
16 But [1161] now [3570] they desire [3713] a better [2909] country, that is [5123], an heavenly [2032]: wherefore [1352] God [2316] is [1870] not [3756] ashamed [1870] [846] to be called [1941] their [846] God [2316]: for [1063] he hath prepared [2090] for them [846] a city [4172].
2 And the LORD [03068] said [0559] unto him, What is that in thine hand [03027]? And he said [0559], A rod [04294].
5 And the daughter [01323] of Pharaoh [06547] came down [03381] to wash [07364] herself at the river [02975]; and her maidens [05291] walked [01980] along by the river's [02975] side [03027]; and when she saw [07200] the ark [08392] among [08432] the flags [05488], she sent [07971] her maid [0519] to fetch [03947] it.
8 Now there arose up [06965] a new [02319] king [04428] over Egypt [04714], which knew [03045] not Joseph [03130].
23 And I say [0559] unto thee, Let my son [01121] go [07971], that he may serve [05647] me: and if thou refuse [03985] to let him go [07971], behold, I will slay [02026] thy son [01121], even thy firstborn [01060].
22 And thou shalt say [0559] unto Pharaoh [06547], Thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068], Israel [03478] is my son [01121], even my firstborn [01060]:
1 And afterward [0310] Moses [04872] and Aaron [0175] went in [0935], and told [0559] Pharaoh [06547], Thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068] God [0430] of Israel [03478], Let my people [05971] go [07971], that they may hold a feast [02287] unto me in the wilderness [04057].
2 And Pharaoh [06547] said [0559], Who is the LORD [03068], that I should obey [08085] his voice [06963] to let Israel [03478] go [07971]? I know [03045] not the LORD [03068], neither will I let Israel [03478] go [07971].
3 And they said [0559], The God [0430] of the Hebrews [05680] hath met [07122] with us: let us go [03212], we pray thee, three [07969] days [03117]' journey [01870] into the desert [04057], and sacrifice [02076] unto the LORD [03068] our God [0430]; lest he fall [06293] upon us with pestilence [01698], or with the sword [02719].
4 And the king [04428] of Egypt [04714] said [0559] unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses [04872] and Aaron [0175], let [06544] the people [05971] from their works [04639]? get [03212] you unto your burdens [05450].
5 And Pharaoh [06547] said [0559], Behold, the people [05971] of the land [0776] now are many [07227], and ye make them rest [07673] from their burdens [05450].
20 And he erected [05324] there an altar [04196], and called it [07121] Elelohe-Israel [0415].