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23For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done evil to this people; neither hast thou delivered thy people at all.

Exodus 5:23

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD. …

  • Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.

  • Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD.

  • Therefore thus saith the LORD of the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that thou die not by our hand:

  • For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 15-23)

It was a great strait that the head-workmen were in, when they must either abuse those that were under them or be abused by those that were over them; yet, it should seem, rather than they would tyrannize, they would be tyrannized over; and they were so. In this evil case (Exod. 5:19), observe, I. How justly they complained to Pharaoh: They came and cried unto Pharaoh , Exod. 5:15. Whither should…

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