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Exodus 5:14 KJV
Exodus · chapter 5 · verse 14
And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?Exodus 5:14 · King James Version
Exodus 5:14 in context
12So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
13And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
14And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?
15Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?
16There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- taskmastersnâgasto driveH5065 →
- Pharaoh'sParʻôhParoh, a general title of Egyptian kingsH6547 →
- fulfilledkâlâhto end, whether intransitive or transitivedH3615 →
- officersshôṭêrproperly, a scribeH7860 →
- childrenbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
- demandedʼâmarto sayH559 →
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Pharaoh's orders are here put in execution; straw is denied, and yet the work not diminished. 1. The Egyptian task-masters were very severe. Pharaoh having decreed unrighteous decrees, the task-masters were ready to write the grievousness that he had prescribed, Isa 10:1.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 10-14