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Exodus 5:17 KJV
Exodus · chapter 5 · verse 17
But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to the LORD.Exodus 5:17 · King James Version
Exodus 5:17 in context
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.
17But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to the LORD.
18Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.
19And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish ought from your bricks of your daily task.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- sacrificezâbachto slaughter an animalH2076 →
- saidʼâmarto sayH559 →
- idlerâphâhto slackenH7503 →
- goyâlakto walkH3212 →
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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 (Exo 5:19), observe, I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 15-23