Moses Returns to Egypt. So Moses took his wife [Zipporah] and his sons [Gershom and Eliezer] and seated them on donkeys, and returned to the land of Egypt. Moses also took the staff of God in his hand. Exo 4:20
INTRODUCTION TO THE OLD TESTAMENT
The Nation Israel Delivered and Organized
ISRAEL IN EGYPT, Exodus 1:8-12:36
2. The Deliverer Raised up and Called, Exodus 2:1-4:31
9. By what acts of obedience did he begin his mission!
MOSES RETURNS TO EGYPT
Then Moses went away and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, “Please, let me go back so that I may return to my relatives in Egypt, and see if they are still alive.” And Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”
Then the LORD said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all the men who were seeking your life [for killing the Egyptian] are dead.” [Exo_2:11-12]
So Moses took his wife [Zipporah] and his sons [Gershom and Eliezer] and seated them on donkeys, and returned to the land of Egypt. Moses also took the staff of God in his hand.
The LORD said to Moses, “When you return to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders (miracles) which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and make him stubborn so that he will not let the people go.
Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the LORD, “Israel is My son, My firstborn.
So I say to you, ‘Let My son go so that he may serve Me’; and if you refuse to let him go, behold, I will kill your son, your firstborn.”‘”
Now it happened at the lodging place, that the LORD met Moses and sought to kill him [making him deathly ill because he had not circumcised one of his sons]. [Gen_17:9-14]
Then Zipporah took a flint knife and cut off the foreskin of her son and threw it at Moses’ feet, and said, “Indeed you are a husband of blood to me!”
So He let Moses alone [to recover]. At that time Zipporah said, “You are a husband of blood”–because of the circumcision.
The LORD said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.” So he went and met him at the mountain of God (Sinai) and kissed him.
Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD with which He had sent him, and all the signs that He had commanded him to do.
Then Moses and Aaron went [into Egypt] and assembled all the elders of the Israelites;
and Aaron said all the words which the LORD had spoken to Moses. Then Moses performed the signs [given to him by God] before the people.
So the people believed; and when they heard that the LORD was concerned about the Israelites and that He had looked [with compassion] on their suffering, then they bowed their heads and worshiped [the LORD].
Comments by
F.B.Meyer
On
Exodus 4:18-31
MOSES AND AARON ANNOUNCE GOD’S PURPOSE TO ISRAEL
So often the keenest tests of a man’s fitness for his life-work are furnished by his behavior in his home. It may be that Zipporah had resisted the earlier imposition on her son of the initial rite of the Jewish faith and her proud soul had to yield. No man who has put his hand to God’s plow can take counsel with flesh and blood, or look back. At whatever cost we must set our own house in order, before we can emancipate a nation.
When God designs it, He will contrive for us to meet the man, or men, who are to help us in our life mission. Our paths meet in the Mount of God. When the Alps were bored for the railway track, the work started on either side, and the workers met in the middle. Help is coming to you from unexpected quarters, and will meet you when you need it most.
Comments by
WILLIAM MACDONALD
Believers Bible Commentary
On
Exodus 4:18-31
III. THE CALL OF MOSES (Chaps. 3, 4)
C. The Return of Moses to Egypt (4:18-31)
4:18-23 Forty years after fleeing to Midian, Moses returned to Egypt at God’s command and with Jethro’s blessing. His wife and sons were Zipporah, Gershom, and Eliezer (Exo_18:2-4). The staff in verse 2 becomes the rod of God in verse 20. The Lord uses ordinary objects to do extraordinary things so that it can be plainly seen that the power is from God. The wonders which God commanded Moses to perform before Pharaoh were the plagues that followed. God hardened Pharaoh’s heart, but only after that despotic ruler had first hardened his own heart. “Firstborn” sometimes refers to the order in physical birth, but here it means a position of honor normally held by the firstborn son, the inheritor of the birthright. Pharaoh was forewarned that if he did not obey, God would slay his son.
4:24-26 But before Moses could deliver the message, he had to learn obedience himself. He had failed to circumcise his own son (Gershom or Eliezer), possibly because of Zipporah’s opposition. When God threatened to kill Moses, perhaps by serious illness, Zipporah angrily circumcised the son and secured her husband’s release. She called him a “husband (or “bridegroom,” NASB) of blood.” This incident, plus Zipporah’s apparent lack of faith in the Lord, may have been the reason why Moses sent Zipporah home to her father with her two sons (Exo_18:2-3).
4:27-31 Aaron came out to meet Moses as he returned to Egypt. They both stood before the people of Israel, delivered the Lord’s message, and confirmed it with the three signs which the Lord had given. So the people believed and worshiped the Lord.
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