Exode 4:20 BDS

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 4:1-31

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 displayed his classic and poetic genius on the rod of Amram’s son. Reference has also been made to the Thyrsus of Bacchus, which was a dart surround with leaves of the vine. The fabulous history of Bacchus we have in old Hesiod, fab. 3. Pliny, book 16, chap. 4. Cicero on the nature of the gods,... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Exodus 4:20

Exodus 4:20Returned to the land of Egypt.The journey to EgyptI. That a good man journeying on the service of God should take his family with him. Never go on any good errand without your family; teach the youthful feet to walk in obedience to God.II. That a good man journeying on the service of God should take his rod with him. Never go on a journey of moral service without God. Especially if you are a minister of the gospel, take the rod on your journey to Egypt.1. It will keep you humble. It... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Exodus 4:20

Exo 4:20 And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand. Ver. 20. Upon an ass. ] This may argue his poverty, as Zechariah 9:9 . Especially if he had but one ass for the whole family. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Exodus 4:20

the rod of God: Exodus 4:2, Exodus 4:17, Exodus 17:9, Numbers 20:8, Numbers 20:9 Reciprocal: Exodus 2:21 - Zipporah Exodus 7:9 - Take Exodus 14:16 - lift Numbers 18:20 - General 2 Kings 4:24 - Then she 1 Chronicles 23:15 - Gershom Acts 7:29 - General read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Exodus 4:20

And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.The rod of God — His shepherd's crook so called, as it was God's instrument in so many glorious works. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 4:20

20. And Moses took his wife Zipporah . And his (two) sons Gershom and Eliezer . Set thereupon an ass Rather, made them ride upon the ass . Probably only Zipporah and the child Eliezer rode, while Moses and Gershom walked by the side of the ass . This was an humble, an unostentatious, entry of the commander of the hosts of Israel! read more