Exo 5:22-23 | TNotes | STEP | Summary for Exod 5:22-23: 5:22-23 This was the crisis point. After the initial burst of enthusiasm (4:29-31 ), the offer of rescue produced nothing but skepticism, hostility, and worse oppression than before. Moses, the rescuer, was himself reduced to doubt. 5:22 The phrase brought all this trouble could be translated even more strongly as done all this evil. Is God really good or not? Instead of rescuing the people out of their evil circumstances as he had promised, it seems that God had only made the situation worse. Is he faithful or not? Is he powerful or not? (cp. Ps 105:25-27 ).

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‏ Exodus 5:22-23

Summary for Exod 5:22-23: 5:22-23 ^a This was the crisis point. After the initial burst of enthusiasm (4:29-31 ^b), the offer of rescue produced nothing but skepticism, hostility, and worse oppression than before. Moses, the rescuer, was himself reduced to doubt. 5:22 ^c The phrase brought all this trouble could be translated even more strongly as done all this evil. Is God really good or not? Instead of rescuing the people out of their evil circumstances as he had promised, it seems that God had only made the situation worse. Is he faithful or not? Is he powerful or not? (cp. Ps 105:25-27 ^d).