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Exodus 5:15

in Exodus 5

So the Israelite foremen went and appealed to Pharaoh: “Why are you treating your servants this way?

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?

KJV

Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?

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This verse in Exodus 5

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

came and cried unto Pharaoh

on Exodus 5:15-16

Israel cried at 2:23 and the cry came up unto God, who heard and remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Here the officers cry to the man who signed the order they are appealing against, and they leave with nothing. They tell him that the fault is in thine own people, which is as near an accusation as a slave may carry to a king.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Whither should they go with a remonstrance of their grievances but to the supreme power, which is ordained for the protection of the injured? As bad as Pharaoh was his oppressed subjects had liberty to complain to him; there was no law against petitioning: it was a very modest, but moving, representation that they made of their condition (

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Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh,.... Made their complaints to him, perhaps with tears in their eyes, being used so very ill. They little thought it was by Pharaoh's orders; they supposed he knew nothing of it, and therefore hoped to have their grievances redressed by him, but were mistaken: saying, wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants? so they call themselves, they living in his country, and being under his jurisdiction, though not properly his subjects; however, he had made them his slaves, and so indeed even bondservants.

The words behind it

12 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיָּבֹ֗אוּand they went

    vaiyavouH935 →2568 times

  • שֹֽׁטְרֵי֙[the] foremen of

    shotereiH7860 →25 times

  • בְּנֵ֣י[the] people of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • וַיִּצְעֲק֥וּand they cried out

    vaiyitzakuH6817 →55 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • פַּרְעֹ֖הPharaoh

    parohH6547 →274 times

  • לֵאמֹ֑ר<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

  • לָ֧מָּה<to> why?

    lamahH4100 →752 times

  • תַעֲשֶׂ֦הare you doing

    taasehH6213 →2628 times

  • כֹ֖הthus

    khohH3541 →577 times

  • לַעֲבָדֶֽיךָ׃to servants your

    laavadeikhaH5650 →799 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

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About Exodus

The Giving of the Law on Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Giving of the Law on Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Exodus: the study guide →Read Exodus 5 →

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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