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Friday, September 12th, 2025
the Week of Proper 18 / Ordinary 23
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出埃及记 5:2

法老回答:“耶和華是誰,我要聽他的話,讓以色列人離開呢?我不認識耶和華,也不讓以色列人離開。”

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blindness;   Disobedience to God;   Infidelity;   Presumption;   Skepticism;   Thompson Chain Reference - Humility-Pride;   Impiety;   Pride;   Righteousness-Unrighteousness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Disobedience to God;   Egypt;   Ignorance of God;   Obedience to God;   Rebellion against God;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Pharaoh;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Moses;   Pharaoh;   Pride;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Aaron;   Deliver;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Exodus, the;   Moses;   Priest;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Exodus, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Aaron;   Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread;   Pharaoh;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Moses;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Exodus, the;   On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Circumcision;   Moses;   Plagues of Egypt;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Humility;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
法 老 说 : 耶 和 华 是 谁 , 使 我 听 他 的 话 , 容 以 色 列 人 去 呢 ? 我 不 认 识 耶 和 华 , 也 不 容 以 色 列 人 去 !

Contextual Overview

1 After Moses and Aaron talked to the people, they went to the king of Egypt and said, "This is what the Lord , the God of Israel, says: ‘Let my people go so they may hold a feast for me in the desert.'" 2 But the king of Egypt said, "Who is the Lord ? Why should I obey him and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord , and I will not let Israel go."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Who: Exodus 3:19, 2 Kings 18:35, 2 Chronicles 32:15, 2 Chronicles 32:19, Job 21:15, Psalms 10:4, Psalms 12:4, Psalms 14:1

I know not: 1 Samuel 2:12, John 16:3, Romans 1:28, 2 Thessalonians 1:8

neither: Exodus 3:19, Jeremiah 44:16, Jeremiah 44:17

Reciprocal: Genesis 3:5 - as gods Exodus 7:17 - thou shalt Exodus 8:8 - Entreat Exodus 18:11 - in the thing Judges 2:10 - knew not 1 Samuel 25:10 - Who is David 1 Kings 12:13 - answered 1 Kings 18:21 - if the Lord 2 Kings 19:22 - Whom Nehemiah 9:10 - they Job 15:25 - strengtheneth Job 18:21 - knoweth Job 41:34 - he is Psalms 17:10 - with Psalms 73:9 - set Proverbs 18:23 - rich Proverbs 30:9 - Who Isaiah 36:20 - that the Lord Isaiah 37:23 - Whom hast Jeremiah 42:13 - General Jeremiah 43:2 - all the Jeremiah 48:26 - for he Jeremiah 50:33 - they refused Daniel 3:15 - and who Malachi 3:13 - Your 2 Corinthians 10:5 - and every Galatians 4:8 - when James 3:5 - so

Cross-References

Genesis 1:27
So God created human beings in his image. In the image of God he created them. He created them male and female.
Genesis 2:15
The Lord God put the man in the garden of Eden to care for it and work it.
Genesis 2:23
And the man said, "Now, this is someone whose bones came from my bones, whose body came from my body. I will call her ‘woman,' because she was taken out of man."
Malachi 2:15
God made husbands and wives to become one body and one spirit for his purpose—so they would have children who are true to God. So be careful, and do not break your promise to the wife you married when you were young.
Matthew 19:4
Jesus answered, "Surely you have read in the Scriptures: When God made the world, ‘he made them male and female.'
Mark 10:6
But when God made the world, ‘he made them male and female.'
Acts 17:26
God began by making one person, and from him came all the different people who live everywhere in the world. God decided exactly when and where they must live.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Pharaoh said, who is the Lord,.... Jehovah, they made mention of, which, whether he took it for the name of a deity, or of a king, whose ambassadors they declared themselves to be, was a name he had never heard of before; and this being expressed and pronounced, shows that this name is not ineffable, or unlawful to be pronounced, as say the Jews:

that I should obey his voice, to let Israel go? he knew of no superior monarch to him, whose orders he was obliged to obey in any respect, and particularly in this, the dismission of the people of Israel out of his land, though it was but for a short time:

I know not the Lord; who this Jehovah is, that made this demand, and required Israel's dismission. The Targum of Jonathan paraphrases it,

"I have not found the name of Jehovah written in the book of angels, I am not afraid of him.''

An Egyptian book, in which, the paraphrast supposes, were written the names of gods and of angels; and no such name being there, he was the more bold and insolent:

neither will I let Israel go; determining he would pay no regard to such an unknown Deity, or King, be he who he would.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I know not the Lord - Either Pharaoh had not heard of Yahweh, or he did not recognize Him as a God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 5:2. Who is the Lord — Who is Jehovah, that I should obey his voice? What claims has he on me? I am under no obligation to him. Pharaoh spoke here under the common persuasion that every place and people had a tutelary deity, and he supposed that this Jehovah might be the tutelary deity of the Israelites, to whom he, as an Egyptian, could be under no kind of obligation. It is not judicious to bring this question as a proof that Pharaoh was an atheist: of this the text affords no evidence.


 
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