Exo 4:24-25 | KingComments | STEP | After the LORD has spoken of His people as His firstborn son, he addresses Moses on his relationship with his son, probably his firstborn son, Gersom. It is that serious that He wants to put Moses to death. This shows that God cannot condone anything wrong with those He wants to use, even though Moses is about to carry out the LORD’s command. The LORD can only use those who also observe His statutes in their families. The reason the LORD wants to put Moses to death is that one of his children has not been circumcised. Circumcision is the acknowledgment of God’s judgment on the flesh. The picture here is that God’s judgment has not been carried out on the flesh of that child. It may have escaped Moses attention. Perhaps the originally heathen Zipporah didn’t realize its necessity. She does it now because she has to do so, but with the reproach to Moses that he is a “bridegroom of blood” to her. What she means by this is not quite clear. Perhaps it shows that she, although against her will, did the bloody act of circumcision to save her husband. She then gets him back, as it were, as her bridegroom by performing this bloody ritual. The life of Moses is spared. The lesson here is that it is of great importance to every leader of God’s people that he rules his family under God’s authority ( ). His family is his first responsibility. The LORD wanted to put Moses to death, as the head of the family, and not Zipporah.

‏ Exodus 4:24-25

The LORD Wants to Kill Moses

After the LORD has spoken of His people as His firstborn son, he addresses Moses on his relationship with his son, probably his firstborn son, Gersom. It is that serious that He wants to put Moses to death. This shows that God cannot condone anything wrong with those He wants to use, even though Moses is about to carry out the LORD’s command. The LORD can only use those who also observe His statutes in their families.

The reason the LORD wants to put Moses to death is that one of his children has not been circumcised. Circumcision is the acknowledgment of God’s judgment on the flesh. The picture here is that God’s judgment has not been carried out on the flesh of that child. It may have escaped Moses attention. Perhaps the originally heathen Zipporah didn’t realize its necessity. She does it now because she has to do so, but with the reproach to Moses that he is a “bridegroom of blood” to her. What she means by this is not quite clear. Perhaps it shows that she, although against her will, did the bloody act of circumcision to save her husband. She then gets him back, as it were, as her bridegroom by performing this bloody ritual. The life of Moses is spared.

The lesson here is that it is of great importance to every leader of God’s people that he rules his family under God’s authority (1Tim 3:1 ; 4-5). His family is his first responsibility. The LORD wanted to put Moses to death, as the head of the family, and not Zipporah.