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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Exodus 4:26

So He let him go. Then she said, A bloody husband, or bridegroom, thou art, because of the circumcision. She vented her displeasure after the recovery of Moses was assured. It seems that this incident caused Moses to reconsider his intention of taking his family along to Egypt. At any rate, it was not until his return to the peninsula of Sinai that his father-in-law brought his family to him, Exodus 18:2. As circumcision was a sacrament in the Old Testament, so Baptism is a sacrament of the New Testament, and the Lord's zeal for the use of the means of grace is as great as ever.

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See also Exodus 4:26 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    SO HE LET HIM GO - i. e. God withdrew His visitation from Moses. Moses sent Zipporah and her children back to Jethro before he went to Egypt, Exodus 18:2. The journey would have been delayed had he w...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 4:1-28 MOSES' OBJECTIONS, JEHOVAH'S ANSWER AND THE RETURN TO EGYPT _ 1. The first objection (Exodus 4:1)_ 2. The two signs and Jehovah's assurance (Exodus 4:2) 3. The second objection (Exod...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EXODUS 4:24 J. MOSES THREATENED WITH DEATH DECAUSE UNCIRCUMCISED. This is an old and strange boulder of tradition. The incident here follows Exodus 4:20 a. It appears to relate in strongly anthropomor...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HE: i.e., Jehovah. HIM. Moses' son Eliezer. Compare Exodus 4:24.Genesis 17:14....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 4 And Mo-ses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice; for they will say, Je-ho-vah hath not appeared unto thee. (2) And Je-ho...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _SO HE LET HIM GO: THEN SHE SAID, A BLOODY HUSBAND THOU ART, BECAUSE OF THE CIRCUMCISION._ So he let him go. Moses recovered; but the remembrance of this critical period in his life would stimulate t...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    4:26 husband (f-11) Lit. 'bridegroom,' as Psalms 19:5 ; 'son-in-law,' as 1 Samuel 18:18 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    SIGNS ATTESTING THE COMMISSION OF MOSES. HIS RETURN TO EGYPT Moses still hesitates, and now objects that the péople will not believe him when he tells them that Jehovah has sent him. He is granted th...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    HE LET HIM GO] i.e. God let Moses go, removed his sickness and allowed him to recover. It was probably at this time that Moses sent his wife and children back to the house of his father-in-law. They r...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    EXODUS: ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION THE *ISRAELITES LEAVE EGYPT EXODUS CHAPTER S 1 TO 18 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 4 THE *LORD GIVES GREAT POWER TO MOSES – VERSES 1-9 God shows his po...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    SO HE LET HIM GO. — God let Moses go, _i.e.,_ allowed him to recover — accepted Zipporah’s act as sufficient, albeit tardy, reparation, and spared the life of her husband. THEN SHE SAID. — When Moses...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יִּ֖רֶף מִמֶּ֑נּוּ אָ֚ז אָֽמְרָ֔ה חֲתַ֥ן ד

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    MOSES OBEYS _._ Exodus 4:18. Moses is now commissioned: he is to go to Egypt, and Aaron is coming thence to meet him. Yet he first returns to Midian, to Jethro, who is both his employer and the head...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    MOSES AND AARON ANNOUNCE GOD'S PURPOSE TO ISRAEL Exodus 4:18 So often the keenest tests of a man's fitness for his life-work are furnished by his behavior in his home. It may be that Zipporah had res...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    A further difficulty was now declared. The man who first doubted himself and then doubted because of his ignorance of God now doubted because of the people to whom he was to be sent. God had told him...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Exodus 18:2; Joshua 5:2. It is difficult to determine whether Zipporah meant this in anger, or whether it were an instance of faith. If the latter, it carries with it a sweet testimony of the holy joy...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    There is hardly a book of the Old Testament that stands out in more decided contrast with the book of Genesis than the one which follows it most closely. And this is the more striking, because God emp...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Moses still raises difficulties, and God gives him again signs, remarkable signs. The two first seem to me in their character-types, the first, of sin and of its healing; the second, of power, which,...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    SO HE LET HIM GO,.... That is, the Lord let Moses go; suffered him to go on his journey without any further interruption; as the Targums, "it", the angel, ceased from him, or left him; or the disease...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband [thou art], because of the circumcision. Ver. 26. _A bloody husband thou art._] This peal she rings oft in his ears, and so taught him patience. “Co...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Moses rod is turned into a Serpent. 6 His hand is leprous. 10 He is loath to bee sent. 14 Aaron is appointed to assist him. 18 Moses departeth from Iethro. 21 Gods message to Pharaoh. 24 Zippo...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    Exodus 4:1 And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice; for they will say, Jehovah hath not appeared unto 2thee. And Jehovah said unto him, What _is_...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    God's message to Moses has been so clear that it cannot be mistaken. He has made no secret of the opposition of Pharaoh, but has declared positively that He would enable Israel to triumph over this an...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    24-31 God met Moses in anger. The Lord threatened him with death or sent sickness upon him, as the punishment of his having neglected to circumcise his son. When God discovers to us what is amiss in...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SO HE LET HIM GO; or, _he_, i.e. God, or the destroying angel sent from God, _departed from him_, i.e. from Moses, and removed the tokens of God's indignation, the sickness or stroke laid upon him. Zi...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    We are still called to linger at the foot of Mount Horeb, at "the backside of the desert;" and, truly, the air of this place is most healthful for the spiritual constitution. Man's unbelief and God's...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Exodus 4:26 go H7503 (H8799) said H559 (H8804) husband H2860 blood H1818 circumcision H4139...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE THREE SONS (EXODUS 4:21). This section could be described as being at the heart of the book of Exodus, for it deals with three attitudes that lie at the heart of God's dealings with the world: His...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Moses' objections. Unbelief of the people and Moses' lack of eloquence. Return to Egypt. Message delivered to elders. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron, Jethro, Zipporah, elders. CONCLUSION: U...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Exodus 4:1. _They will not believe me._ Then the Lord directed him to work a miracle, the most convincing evidence of divine authority, for the removal of unbelief. Exodus 4:2. _A rod._ Milton has dis...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Zipporah took a sharp stone._ NEGLECTED DUTY A HINDRANCE TO THE PERFORMANCE OF RELIGIOUS WORK I. Moses had neglected the duty of circumcising his son. II. That this neglect of duty introduced an e...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 4:24 The covenant requires circumcision (Genesis 17:9). Failure to be circumcised may lead to being “cut off” (some form of severe punishment from God; see note on...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 4:18 These verses are a transition from Moses’ exile in Midian to his return to Egypt. ⇐ ⇔

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 4:25. A bloody husband.] An unfortunate rendering, bearing an opprobrious tone foreign to the Hebrew which is more exactly (with Benisch, Keil. Young, and others), “A bridegroo...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION EXODUS 4:24-2 The transition is abrupt from the promise of triumph over Pharaoh to the threat of instant death. But we must bear in mind that some days may have elapsed between the two, an...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me (Exodus 4:1), Now he's not convinced. They're gonna say, "Who sent you?" "All right", God said, "Tell them Jehovah God, the God of y...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    So he let him go — The destroying angel withdrew. But still Zipporah cannot forget, but will unreasonably call Moses a bloody husband, because he obliged her to circumcise the child; and upon this occ...

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