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Exodus 5:19 KJV
Exodus · chapter 5 · verse 19
And 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.Exodus 5:19 · King James Version
Exodus 5:19 in context
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.
20And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh:
21And they said unto them, The LORD look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- officersshôṭêrproperly, a scribeH7860 →
- childrenbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- minishgâraʻto scrape offH1639 →
- brickslᵉbênâha brickH3843 →
- dailyyôwma day , whether literal , or figurativeH3117 →
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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