Exodus 4:10-31 ESV

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Exodus 4:19

This seems to have been a second vision, whereby God calls him forth to the present and speedy execution of that command which before was more generally delivered. Which sought thy life, to wit, to take it away. See the like expression, 1 Samuel 22:23; 1 Kings 19:14; Matthew 2:20. God knew very well that one great cause of Moses’s unwillingness to this undertaking was his carnal fear, though he was ashamed to profess it, and therefore gives him this cordial. read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Exodus 4:20

His sons, Gershom, Exodus 2:22, and Eliezer, Exodus 18:4, whom he intended to carry with him; but afterwards observing that they were like to be impediments to him in his great business, and being well assured that it would not be long ere he returned to them, he sent them back to Jethro, as may seem from Exodus 18:5. Upon an ass: one ass might be sufficient for her and her two children, because one of them was but little, Exodus 4:25. Or ass may be put for asses, which changes of the numbers... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Exodus 4:21

In thine hand, i.e. in thy power or commission, to be clone by thy hand, and the rod in it. I will harden his heart, that he shall he unmerciful to all the groans and pressures of the Israelites, inexorable to the requests of Moses, unmovable and incorrigible by all my words and works. But God doth not properly and positively make men’s hearts hard, but only privatively, either by denying to them, or withdrawing from them, that grace which alone can make men soft, and flexible, and pliable to... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Exodus 4:22

By my choice and adoption. They are most dear to me, and reserved by me out of all nations to be my peculiar people; and therefore I will no longer suffer thee to invade my right, nor them to live in the neglect of my service. read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Exodus 4:23

I say unto thee; I command thee; for saying is put for commanding, Luke 4:3; Luke 9:54; and in 1 Chronicles 21:19, compared with 2 Samuel 24:19. I will slay thy son; by which plague, coming after the rest, thou wilt be enforced to do what I advise thee now to do upon cheaper terms. read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Exodus 4:24

Met him, i.e. appeared to him in some visible shape, and sought to kill him. Whom? Moses, spoken of and to before. He offered and endeavoured to kill him, either by inflicting some sudden and dangerous disease or stroke upon him, or by showing himself in some threatening posture, possibly as the angel did to Balaam, and afterwards to David, with a drawn sword in his hand, ready to give him a deadly blow. The reason of this severity was not Moses’s distrust of God, or delay in his journey, nor... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Exodus 4:25

Perceiving the danger of her husband, and the cause of it, and her husband being disenabled from performing that work, whether by some stroke or sickness, or by the terror of so dismal and unexpected an apparition to him, and delays being highly dangerous, she thought it better to do it herself as well as she could, rather than put it off a moment longer; whether because the administration of that sacrament was not confined to any kind or order of persons, or because, if it was so, she did not... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Exodus 4:26

So he let him go; or, he, i.e. God, or the destroying angel sent from God, departed from him, i.e. from Moses, and removed the tokens of God’s indignation, the sickness or stroke laid upon him. Zipporah both repeats and amplifies her former censure, and reproacheth not only her husband, but also God’s ordinance; which perverse and obstinate spirit her husband observing in her, and wisely forecasting how much disturbance she might give him in his great and difficult work in Egypt, he thought fit... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Exodus 4:29

All of them whom they could easily and quickly bring together, or all that were in those parts. Of those elders, see Exodus 3:16; Exodus 24:1,Exodus 24:9; Numbers 11:16. read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Exodus 4:30

Thus beginning to execute the office which God had put upon him, which was to be Moses’s mouth, or spokesman. i.e. Aaron did the signs as Moses’s minister, or by the command and direction of Moses. read more

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Exodus 4:19

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Exodus 4:20

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Exodus 4:21

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Exodus 4:22

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Exodus 4:23

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Exodus 4:24

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Exodus 4:25

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Exodus 4:26

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Exodus 4:29

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Exodus 4:30

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