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18 Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you,
yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.
19 And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in
evil case, after it was said, ye shall not monish aught from your bricks of your daily task.
20 And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they
came forth from Pharaoh:
21 and they said unto them, The Lord look upon you, and judge;
because ye have made our savor to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.
How unjustly they complained of Moses and Aaron: The Lord look upon you, and judge, Ex 5:21. This was not fair. Moses and Aaron had given sufficient evidence of their hearty good-will to the liberties of Israel; and yet, because things succeed not immediately as they hoped, they are reproached as accessaries to their slavery. They should have humbled themselves before God, and taken to themselves the shame of their sin, which turned away good things from them; but, instead of this, they fly in the face of their best friends, and quarrel with the instruments of their deliverance, because of some little difficulties and obstructions they met with in effecting it.
Note, Those that are called out to public service for God and their generation must expect to be tried, not only by the malicious threats of proud enemies, but by the unjust and unkind censures of unthinking friends, who judge only by outward appearance and look but a little way before them. Now what did Moses do in this strait? It grieved him to the heart that the event did not answer, but rather contradict, his expectation; and their upbraidings were very cutting, and like a sword in his bones;
The Lord’s Charge to Moses and Aaron
22 And Moses returned unto the Lord, and said, Lord, wherefore hast
thou so evil entreated this people? Why is it that thou hast sent me?