Exodus 5:22

Webster's Bible (1833)

Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, "Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent me?

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  • Exod 17:4 : 4 Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, "What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me."
  • Num 11:11 : 11 Moses said to Yahweh, Why have you dealt ill with your servant? and why haven't I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?
  • Num 11:14-15 : 14 I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me. 15 If you deal thus with me, please kill me out of hand, if I have found favor in your sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
  • 1 Sam 30:6 : 6 David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.
  • 1 Kgs 19:4 : 4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is enough; now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
  • 1 Kgs 19:10 : 10 He said, I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword: and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
  • Ps 73:25 : 25 Who do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth who I desire besides you.
  • Jer 12:1 : 1 Righteous are you, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet would I reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?
  • Jer 20:7 : 7 Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded; you are stronger than I, and have prevailed: I am become a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocks me.
  • Hab 2:3 : 3 For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won't prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won't delay.

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  • 23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble on this people; neither have you delivered your people at all."

  • Num 11:11-12
    2 verses
    84%

    11 Moses said to Yahweh, Why have you dealt ill with your servant? and why haven't I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?

    12 Have I conceived all this people? have I brought them forth, that you should tell me, Carry them in your bosom, as a nursing-father carries the sucking child, to the land which you swore to their fathers?

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    11 Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, "Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

    12 Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, 'He brought them forth for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?' Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people.

  • Exod 5:20-21
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    20 They met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh:

    21 and they said to them, "May Yahweh look at you, and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us."

  • 11 They said to Moses, "Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us forth out of Egypt?

  • 21 Moses said to Aaron, "What did these people do to you, that you have brought a great sin on them?"

  • Exod 17:2-4
    3 verses
    76%

    2 Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, "Give us water to drink." Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?"

    3 The people were thirsty for water there; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?"

    4 Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, "What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me."

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    30 It happened on the next day, that Moses said to the people, "You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh. Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin."

    31 Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, "Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made themselves gods of gold.

  • 15 Moses spoke to Yahweh, saying,

  • 13 Moses said to Yahweh, Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them;

  • Exod 3:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

    10 Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring forth my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt."

    11 Moses said to God, "Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?"

  • Exod 6:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    9 Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn't listen to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.

    10 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • 12 Moses said to Yahweh, "Behold, you tell me, 'Bring up this people:' and you haven't let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, 'I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.'

  • 15 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, "Why do you deal this way with your servants?

  • 19 Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, "Go, return into Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead."

  • 41 Moses said, Why now do you disobey the commandment of Yahweh, seeing it shall not prosper?

  • Num 20:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3 The people strove with Moses, and spoke, saying, Would that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!

    4 Why have you brought the assembly of Yahweh into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?

  • 5 It was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed towards the people, and they said, "What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?"

  • 4 The king of Egypt said to them, "Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people from their work? Get back to your burdens!"

  • 1 Moses answered, "But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, 'Yahweh has not appeared to you.'"

  • 14 He said, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?" Moses was afraid, and said, "Surely this thing is known."

  • 15 If you deal thus with me, please kill me out of hand, if I have found favor in your sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.

  • 8 Moses told his father-in-law all that Yahweh had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the hardships that had come on them on the way, and how Yahweh delivered them.

  • 15 Moses said to his father-in-law, "Because the people come to me to inquire of God.

  • 3 Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: wouldn't it be better for us to return into Egypt?

  • 7 Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Go, get down; for your people, who you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves!

  • 5 Moses brought their cause before Yahweh.

  • 3 My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me!

  • 11 Yahweh said to Moses, How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?

  • 23 Yahweh said to Moses, Has Yahweh's hand grown short? now shall you see whether my word shall happen to you or not.

  • 5 The people spoke against God, and against Moses, Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loathes this light bread.

  • 15 how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers:

  • 26 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

  • 15 Yahweh said to Moses, "Why do you cry to me? Speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward.