出埃及记 5:19

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

以色列人的首領因有命令說：“你們每天本分要做的磚數不可減少”，就知道自己有禍了。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
以 色 列 人 的 官 长 听 说 你 们 每 天 做 砖 的 工 作 一 点 不 可 减 少 ， 就 知 道 是 遭 遇 祸 患 了 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ Then the Israelite foremen went to the king and complained, "Why are you treating us, your servants, this way? ¹⁶ You give us no straw, but we are commanded to make bricks. Our slave masters beat us, but it is your own people's fault." ¹⁷ The king answered, "You are lazy! You don't want to work! That is why you ask to leave here and make sacrifices to the Lord . ¹⁸ Now, go back to work! We will not give you any straw, but you must make just as many bricks as you did before." ¹⁹ The Israelite foremen knew they were in trouble, because the king had told them, "You must make just as many bricks each day as you did before." ²⁰ As they were leaving the meeting with the king, they met Moses and Aaron, who were waiting for them. ²¹ So they said to Moses and Aaron, "May the Lord punish you. You caused the king and his officers to hate us. You have given them an excuse to kill us." ²² Then Moses returned to the Lord and said, "Lord, why have you brought this trouble on your people? Is this why you sent me here? ²³ I went to the king and said what you told me to say, but ever since that time he has made the people suffer. And you have done nothing to save them."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

evil case: Deuteronomy 32:36, Ecclesiastes 4:1, Ecclesiastes 5:8

Reciprocal: Genesis 42:1 - saw Exodus 5:6 - taskmasters Exodus 6:12 - children Deuteronomy 26:6 - General Psalms 107:12 - he brought

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case,.... In a bad condition and circumstances, and that there was no likelihood of their getting out of them, since Pharaoh treated them after this manner; they saw not only that the common people were in a bad condition, in great bondage, misery, and distress, to be obliged to get straw to make brick, and carry in their full tale as before; but that they themselves were in a bad situation, since for the deficiency in their people they were like to be beaten for it from time to time:

after it was said, ye shall not minish ought from your bricks of your daily task; after this had been said and confirmed by Pharaoh, they had no hope of things being better with them, but looked upon their unhappy lot as irretrievable.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 5:19. Did see that they were in evil case] They saw that they could neither expect justice nor mercy; that their deliverance was very doubtful, and their case almost hopeless.