Exodus 2:14

World English Bible

Contextual Overview

¹¹ It happened in those days, when Moses had grown up, that he went out to his brothers, and looked at their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers. ¹² He looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no one, he killed the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. ¹³ He went out the second day, and, behold, two men of the Hebrews were fighting with each other. He said to him who did the wrong, "Why do you strike your fellow?" ¹⁴ He said, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?" Moses was afraid, and said, "Surely this thing is known." ¹⁵ Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Who: Genesis 19:9, Genesis 37:8-11, Genesis 37:19, Genesis 37:20, Numbers 16:3, Numbers 16:13, Psalms 2:2-6, Matthew 21:23, Luke 12:14, Luke 19:14, Luke 19:27, Acts 7:26-28, Acts 7:35

a prince: Heb. a man

a prince: Genesis 13:8

Moses: Proverbs 19:12, Proverbs 29:25

Reciprocal: Genesis 34:27 - they Exodus 4:1 - General Exodus 5:6 - officers 2 Samuel 20:26 - chief ruler Proverbs 5:12 - and my Mark 11:28 - General Luke 20:2 - who John 7:52 - Art John 9:34 - and dost Acts 4:7 - By what power Acts 7:29 - General Hebrews 11:27 - not fearing

Cross-References

Genesis 10:11
Out of that land he went forth into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,

Genesis 10:22
The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.

Genesis 15:18
In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

Genesis 25:18
They lived from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all his relatives.

Deuteronomy 1:7
turn you, and take your journey, and go to the hill-country of the Amorites, and to all [the places] near thereunto, in the Arabah, in the hill-country, and in the lowland, and in the South, and by the sea-shore, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

Deuteronomy 11:24
Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the hinder sea shall be your border.

Daniel 10:4
In the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel,

Revelation 9:14
saying to the sixth angel who had one trumpet, "Free the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he said, who made thee a prince and a judge over us?.... God had designed him for one, and so he appeared to be afterwards; but this man's meaning is, that he was not appointed by Pharaoh's order then, and so had nothing to do to interfere in their differences and quarrels; though Moses did not take upon him to act in an authoritative way, but to exhort and persuade them to peace and love, as they were brethren:

intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? if this was Dathan, or however the same Hebrew that he had defended and rescued from the Egyptian, it was very ungenerous in him to upbraid him with it; or if that Hebrew had made him his confident, and acquainted him with that affair, as it was unfaithful to betray it, since it was in favour of one of his own people, it was ungrateful to reproach him with it:

and Moses feared; lest the thing should be discovered and be told to Pharaoh, and he should suffer for it: this fear that possessed Moses was before he fled from Egypt, and went to Midian, not when he forsook it, and never returned more, at the departure of the children of Israel, to which the apostle refers, Hebrews 11:27 and is no contradiction to this:

and said, surely this thing is known; he said this within himself, he concluded from this speech, that either somebody had seen him commit the fact he was not aware of, or the Hebrew, whose part he took, had through weakness told it to another, from whom this man had it, or to himself; for by this it seems that he was not the same Hebrew, on whose account Moses had slain the Egyptian, for then the thing would have been still a secret between them as before; only the other Hebrew this was now contending with must hereby come to the knowledge of it, and so Moses might fear, that getting into more hands it would come out, as it did; Hebrews 11:27- :.

Hebrews 11:27- :.

Hebrews 11:27- :.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 2:14. And Moses feared — He saw that the Israelites were not as yet prepared to leave their bondage; and that though God had called him to be their leader, yet his providence had not yet sufficiently opened the way; and had he stayed in Egypt he must have endangered his life. Prudence therefore dictated an escape for the present to the land of Midian.