Exodus 2:13-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 2:13

The second day. i.e. "the following day ." See Acts 7:26 . Him that did the wrong. Literally, "the wicked one." Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow? Literally "thy neighbour." In interposing here Moses certainly did nothing but what was right. The strife was one in which blows were being exchanged, and it is the duty of everyone in such a case, by persuasion at any rate. to seek to stop the combat. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 2:13-14

2. Moses as a peacemaker. A great sin disqualifies a man for many a long year from setting himself up to be a guide and teacher of others. It may at any time be thrown in his teeth, nothing could be better intended than the efforts of Moses, on the day after his crime, to compose the quarrels of his brethren, and set the disputants at one. nor is he fairly taxable with any want of equity, or even of tact, in the manner in which he set to work. He rebuked "him that did the wrong." His... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 2:13-15

Moses the hater of all oppression. I . WE HAVE HERE FURTHER IMPORTANT REVELATIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE CHARACTER OF MOSES AND HIS FITNESS TO BE DELIVERER OF ISRAEL . 1. It is evident that his conscience did not accuse him, as touching the slaying of the Egyptian. Wrong as the action was, he made it clear that he had done it from a right motive. Although he had taken the life of a fellowman, he had taken it not as a murderer, with malice in his... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 2:14

Who made thee a prince and a judge over us ? It was not his interference now, but his wrongful act of the day before, that exposed Moses to this rebuke. There was no assumption of lordship or of judicial authority in the bare inquiry, "Why smitest thou thy neighhour?" nor in the fuller phrase reported by St. Stephen, "Sirs, ye are brethren. Why do ye wrong one to another?" ( Acts 7:26 ), unless as coupled with the deed of the preceding day. Thus the violence of today renders of no avail... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 2:13

Thy fellow - “Thy neighbor.” the reproof was that of a legislator who established moral obligations on a recognized principle. Hence, in the following verse, the offender is represented as feeling that the position claimed by Moses was that of a Judge. The act could only have been made known by the Hebrew on whose behalf Moses had committed it. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 2:14

Exodus 2:14. He said, Who made thee a prince? He challengeth his authority. A man needs no great authority for giving a friendly reproof; it is an act of kindness; yet this man will needs interpret it an act of dominion, and represents his reprover as imperious and assuming. Thus, when people are sick of good discourse, or a seasonable admonition, they will call it preaching, as if a man could not speak a word for God, and against sin, but he took too much upon him. Yet Moses was indeed... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Exodus 2:1-25

Preparation of Moses (2:1-25)Moses was the person God chose to save his people and lead them out of Egypt. He was born of godly Hebrew parents, who no doubt taught him that the true and living God was the only legitimate object of human worship, and this God had chosen Israel to be his people. At the same time Moses grew up in the Egyptian palace, where he was trained in the best learning and culture available at that time (2:1-10; see Acts 7:22; Hebrews 11:23).By the time he was forty years of... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Exodus 2:13

men . Hebrew, plural of 'ish, or 'enosh. App-14 . strove = striving. he said . Supposing they would have understood. "But they understood not, "Acts 7:25 . wrong. Hebrew. rash`a, App-44 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Exodus 2:14

Who made thee . . . ? Figure of speech Erotesis ( App-6 ) for emphasis. Spoken by a Hebrew; compare Genesis 37:8 . Luke 19:14 . a prince . Hebrew, "a man ('ish), a prince". feared . The "not fearing, "in Hebrews 11:27 refers to Exodus 10:28 , Exodus 10:29 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Exodus 2:11-15

"And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown up, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he saw an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his brethren. And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he smote the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. And he went out the second day, and, behold, two men of the Hebrews were striving together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow? And he said, Who made... read more

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