Exodus 4:26-31 ESV

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 4:19-31

7. Moses’ return to Egypt 4:19-31 read more

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 4:24-26

This brief account raises several questions.Evidently God afflicted Moses because Moses had not been obedient to God. He failed to circumcise at least one of his two sons (Exodus 18:3-4). The Egyptians practiced partial circumcision on adults. [Note: J. M. Sasson, "Circumcision in the Ancient Near East," Journal of Biblical Literature 85 (1966):473-74.] God’s sentence for this sin of omission was death ("cut off from his people," cf. Genesis 17:14). God was ready to carry out this sentence on... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 4:27-31

Aaron was evidently in Egypt when God told him to meet Moses and directed him to Horeb (Exodus 4:27). Moses was apparently on his way from Midian back to Egypt when Aaron met him. Compare the reunion of Jacob and Esau (Genesis 33).The Israelites believed what Moses and Aaron told them and what their miracles confirmed. They believed that the God of their fathers had appeared to Moses and had sent him to lead them out of Egypt and into the Promised Land (Exodus 4:31; cf. Exodus 3:6 to Exodus... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 4:1-31

Signs Attesting the Commission of Moses. His Return to EgyptMoses still hesitates, and now objects that the péople will not believe him when he tells them that Jehovah has sent him. He is granted the power of working three signs by way of substantiating his commission.2. A rod] probably his shepherd’s staff.3. Fled from before it] A graphic trait, showing that the change was real, and that Moses was not prepared for it. 4. By the tail] Snake charmers usually take snakes by the neck to prevent... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Exodus 4:26

(26) So he let him go.—God let Moses go, i.e., allowed him to recover—accepted Zipporah’s act as sufficient, albeit tardy, reparation, and spared the life of her husband.Then she said.—When Moses was sufficiently recovered, Zipporah explained to him why she had called him “a bloody husband;” it was “on account of the circumcisions,” i.e., the two circumcisions—of Gershom in Midian, many years previously, and now of Eliezer. We learn from Exodus 18:2-3, that Zipporah and her boys were sent back... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Exodus 4:27

(27) Go into the wilderness.-Either the directions given to Aaron were more definite than this, or they were supplemented by Divine guidance. He went and met Moses on “the mount of God,” i.e., in the Sinaitic region. Without Divine guidance, he would naturally have sought him in Midian.Kissed him.—Comp. Genesis 33:4; Genesis 45:14-15. In the East, men closely related still kiss on meeting, as they did in Moses’ time, and in the days of Herodotus (i. 134). read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Exodus 4:28

(28) Who had sent him.—Rather, “which he had laid upon him,” τοὺς λόγους κυρίου, οὓς , LXX.All the signs, i.e., the three miracles of Exodus 4:3-9. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Exodus 4:29

THE RETURN TO EGYPT.(29) Moses and Aaron went.—The two brothers returned together from the Sinaitic region to Egypt. No particulars of the journey are narrated, nor can we even tell what was the route which they followed. On their arrival, they at once set themselves to carry out the charge committed to them (Exodus 3:16). The Israelites in Egypt, though suffering under severe oppression, had an organisation of their own, jurisdiction attaching probably to the heads of tribes, or of chief... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Exodus 4:30

(30) Aaron spake.—According to the Divine command (Exodus 4:16).And did the signs.—So, generally, afterwards (Exodus 7:10; Exodus 7:19; Exodus 8:6; Exodus 8:17, &c.), not, however, universally (see Exodus 9:10; Exodus 9:23; Exodus 10:13; Exodus 14:21; &c).The people believed.—The narrative is very much compressed. The elders heard the words, and saw the signs first. Then they must have summoned an assembly of the people, after working hours, and the people must have been addressed and... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Exodus 4:1-31

The Rod That Is in Thine Hand Exodus 4:2 ; Exodus 4:17 I. God often does His greatest works by the humblest means. The great forces of nature are not in the earthquake which tumbles cities into ruins. This power passes in a moment; the soft silent light, the warm summer rain, the stars whose voice is not heard these are the majestic mighty forces which fill the earth with riches, and control the worlds which constitute the wide universe of God. II. So in Providence. The founders of... read more

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 4:19-31

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 4:24-26

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 4:27-31

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 4:1-31

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Exodus 4:26

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Exodus 4:27

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Exodus 4:28

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Exodus 4:29

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Exodus 4:30

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Exodus 4:1-31

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