Exodus 17:4 KJV — MannaFest

Exodus 17:4

And Moses cried unto the Lord, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.

KJV

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ASV

And Moses cried unto Jehovah, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they are almost ready to stone me.

WEB

Then Moses cried out to the LORD, “What should I do with these people? A little more and they will stone me!”

YLT

And Moses crieth to Jehovah, saying, `What do I to this people? yet a little, and they have stoned me.'

DBT

And Moses cried to Jehovah, saying, What shall I do with this people? Yet a little, and they will stone me!

About this book

Old Testament

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Exodus — Deliverance, covenant, presence. A slave-people redeemed from Egypt, brought to Sinai, and given a tabernacle so that God might dwell among them.

Author: Moses — traditional attribution; internal narrator identifies Moses as recorder (17:14, 24:4, 34:27)
Date: 15th or 13th century BC, depending on chronology of the exodus

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Cross-references

15 verses on the floor

1 Samuel 30:6
And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.
Numbers 14:10
But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the Lord appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.
Exodus 14:15
And the Lord said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward:
Job 42:10
And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.
John 10:31
Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.

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Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

Ungoverned passions, provoked by the crossing of unbridled appetites, sometimes make men guilty of the greatest absurdities, and act like madmen, that cast firebrands, arrows, and death, among their best friends. They began to question whether God were with them or not: They tempted the Lord, saying, "Is the Lord among us or not?

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Moses begs of God to direct him what he should do, for he was utterly at a loss; he could not of himself either supply their want or pacify their tumult; He pleads his own peril: " They are almost ready to stone me;

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Moses cried unto the Lord, saying, What shall I do unto this people?--His language, instead of betraying any signs of resentment or vindictive imprecation on a people who had given him a cruel and unmerited treatment, was the expression of an anxious wish to know what was the best to be done in the circumstances (compare Mt 5:44;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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H561922× in canon H681755× in canon H4592101× in canon

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

EXO 17:41SA 30:6 PSA 56:3-4
EXO 17:41SA 30:6 PSA 56:11
EXO 17:41SA 30:6 PSA 62:5
EXO 17:41SA 30:6 PSA 27:1-3
EXO 17:41SA 30:6 PSA 18:6
EXO 17:4JHN 8:59 JHN 11:8
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
EXO 17:4NUM 14:10 1SA 30:6
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
EXO 17:4ACT 14:19 2CO 11:25

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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