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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Exodus 3:19

I am sure. — Heb., I know, which is more suitable, since it is God who speaks, and to Him the future is known with as absolute a certainty as the past.

No, not by a mighty hand. — Rather, not even under a mighty hand (ne quidem valida manu castigatus, Rosenmüller). Pharaoh, even when chastised by My mighty hand, will not voluntarily permit of your departure (see Exodus 14:5).

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See also Exodus 3:19 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Exodus 3:19. _I AM SURE THAT THE KING OF EGYPT WILL NOT LET YOU GO,_ _NO, NOT BY A MIGHTY HAND_] When the facts detailed in this history have been considered in connection with the assertion as...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    NO, NOT - See the marginal rendering. Others explain it to mean, Pharaoh will not let the people go even when severely smitten....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 3 THE BURNING BUSH AND THE CALL AND COMMISSION OF MOSES _ 1. The vision of the burning bush (Exodus 3:1)_ 2. Jehovah speaks and calls Moses (Exodus 3:4) 3. Moses' answer (Exodus 3:11) 4. T...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EXODUS 3:19 E (Exodus 3:19 F. amplified). FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT OF PLAGUES. For the spoiling of the Egyptians, _see Exodus 12:36_. Read in Exodu

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    NO, NOT, &c. Figure of speech _Epitasis_ (App-6)....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Exodus 3:1 TO EXODUS 4:17. Moses commissioned by Jehovah at Horeb to deliver His people. The dialogue between Jehovah and Moses, as in other cases (cf. Delitzsch on Genesis 12:1), must be pictured, no...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    WILL NOT LET YOU GO, NO, NOT BY A MIGHTY HAND— _But by a strong hand._ Margin of our Bibles. i.e. But by the exertion of a strong and mighty power, which he will not be able to resist; and which shall...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 3 Now Mo-ses was keeping the flock of Je-thro his father-in-law, the priest of Mid-i-an: and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to the mountain of...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THE LORD SAID, I HAVE SURELY SEEN THE AFFLICTION OF MY PEOPLE WHICH ARE IN EGYPT, AND HAVE HEARD THEIR CRY BY REASON OF THEIR TASKMASTERS; FOR I KNOW THEIR SORROWS;_ I have surely seen the affli...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    3:19 not (a-15) Or 'unless it be.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    NO, NOT BY A MIGHTY HAND] This means either 'in spite of the fact that I will lay My hand heavily upon him'; or better, with a slight change of reading, as LXX has it, 'unless I lay My hand heavily up...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE CALL OF MOSES AND HIS COMMISSION TO BE THE DELIVERER OF ISRAEL 1. Horeb] The names Horeb and Sinai seem to be synonymous, though it has been suggested that Horeb is the name given to the entire mo...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ אֲנִ֣י יָדַ֔עְתִּי כִּ֠י לֹֽא ־יִתֵּ֥ן אֶת

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Exodus 3:16. THE COMMISSION. Exodus 3:10, Exodus 3:16. We have already learned from the seventh verse that God commissioned Moses, only when He had Himself descended to deliver Israel. He sends non...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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

    At last the actual call of God came to Moses. It found him fulfilling a daily duty, keeping the sheep of his father-in-law. There can be no doubt that in the silent solitudes of the wilderness he had...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Exodus 5:2....

  • 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 Calvin's Bible Commentary

    19._And I am sure that the king of Egypt. _God forearms his people, lest, suffering a repulse at their first onset, they should retire, and abandon in despair the work enjoined to them. It was, indeed...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    But at last God looks upon His people, and not only gives the faith that identifies itself with His people, but displays the power which delivers them. That Moses, who was rejected as a prince and a j...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND I AM SURE THAT THE KING OF EGYPT WILL NOT LET YOU GO,.... Or "but" c "I am sure", c. though so reasonable a request was made him, yet it would not be granted this is observed to them, that they mi...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand. Ver. 19. _Will not let you go._] A sturdy rebel he was; but God tamed him, and took him down by those ten plagues,...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Hath met with us_ Hath appeared to us, declaring his will, that we should do what follows. _I am sure he will not let you go_ God sends his messengers to those whose obstinacy he foresees, that it ma...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Moses keepeth Iethros flocke. 2 God appeareth to him in a burning bush. 9 He sendeth him to deliuer Israel. 14 The name of God. 15 His message to Israel. 1 NOWE Moses kept the flocke of Iethro...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE PROMISE OF DELIVERANCE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand. The omniscient God knew that Pharaoh would not permanently submit to Him, not even after the ten plagues, but would...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    C. THE CALL OF MOSES. HIS REFUSAL AND OBEDIENCE. HIS ASSOCIATION WITH AARON AND THEIR FIRST MISSION TO THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL Exodus 2:3 1Now Moses kept [was pasturing] the flock of Jethro his father-i...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    THE BURNING BUSH: MOSES CALLED TO EGYPT In tending Jethro's sheep Moses came to Mount Horeb, called "the mountain of God," because it signified Israel's relationship with God as under law. It is also...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    NO NOT BY A MIGHTY HAND: Or, but by strong hand...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    16-22 Moses' success with the elders of Israel would be good. God, who, by his grace, inclines the heart, and opens the ear, could say beforehand, They shall hearken to thy voice; for he would make t...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    I AM SURE; I know it infallibly beforehand. NO, NOT BY A MIGHTY HAND; though he see and feel the miraculous and dreadful works of a strong, yea, almighty hand, yet he will not consent to your going; w...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    We shall now resume the personal history of Moses, and contemplate him during that deeply-interesting period of his career which he spent in retirement-a period including, as we should say, forty of h...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Exodus 3:19 sure H3045 (H8804) king H4428 Egypt H4714 let H5414 (H8799) go H1980 (H8800) mighty...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    MOSES IS THEREFORE TO GO TO THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL AND PROMISE A GLORIOUS DELIVERANCE (EXODUS 3:16). a Moses is to gather the elders and explain that Yahweh the God of their fathers has visited them a...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Moses called as deliverer. The burning bush. CHARACTERS: Jethro, Moses, angel. CONCLUSION: Those qualified for great service may expect for a time to be confined to obscurity for special p...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Exodus 3:1. _Horeb_ and Sinai are the same mountain, almost surrounded by two branches of the Red sea. But it has two summits, Sinai on the east, and Horeb on the west. Justinian built a monastery her...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _I am sure the king of Egypt will not let you go._ THE DIVINE KNOWLEDGE OF THE SUCCESS OR OTHERWISE OF MINISTERIAL WORK I. That God is thoroughly acquainted with the moral obstinacy of men. 1. There...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 3:19 The strength of God’s HAND is the means by which he will bring Israel out of Egypt. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 3:19_ THE DIVINE KNOWLEDGE OF THE SUCCESS OR OTHERWISE OF MINISTERIAL WORK I. THAT GOD IS THOROUGHLY ACQUAINTED WITH THE MORAL OBSTINACY OF MEN. “And I am...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    THE CALL AND MISSION OF MOSES. EXPOSITION EXODUS 3:1 THE MISSION OF MOSES. After forty years of monotonous pastoral life, affording abundant opportunity for meditation, and for spiritual communion...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to mount Horeb (Exodus 3:1). Now n...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    will not. Exodus 5:2 Exodus 7:4 no, not by a mighty hand. or, but by a strong hand. Exodus 6:1 Exodus 7:1...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    THE DELIVERER Exodus 3:11 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We continue a study concerning Israel in _Egypt_ and God's great deliverance which He wrought through Moses. We wish to refer you to the 9th verse of ou...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    FAITH AS EXEMPLIFIED IN MOSES Selections from Exodus 3:1; Exodus 6:1; Exodus 7:1; Exodus 8:1;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    I am sure he will not let you go — God sends his messengers to those whose obstinacy he foresees, that it may appear he would have them turn and live....

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