Exo 4:13-19, 1Sa 16:2, 1Ki 18:9-14, Jer 20:9-10, Eze 3:14, Jon 1:2-3 | ESV | STEP | But he said , Oh , my Lord , please send someone else .

13 But he said, “Oh, my Lord, please send someone else.” 14 Then the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses and he said, “Is there not Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Behold, ^ahe is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart. 15 ^bYou shall speak to him and ^cput the words in his mouth, and ^dI will be with your mouth and with his mouth and will teach you both what to do. 16 ^eHe shall speak for you to the people, and he shall be your mouth, and ^fyou shall be as God to him. 17 And take in your hand ^gthis staff, with which you shall do the signs.”

Moses Returns to Egypt

18 Moses went back to ^hJethro his father-in-law and said to him, “Please let me go back to my brothers in Egypt to see whether they are still alive.” And Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.” 19 And the Lord said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for ⁱall the men who were seeking your life are dead.”

1 Samuel 16:2

2 And Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me.” And the Lord said, “Take a heifer with you and say, ^j‘I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.’

1 Kings 18:9-14

9 And he said, “How have I sinned, that you would give your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me? 10 ^kAs the Lord your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. And when they would say, ‘He is not here,’ he would take an oath of the kingdom or nation, that they had not found you. 11 And now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here.”’ 12 And as soon as I have gone from you, ^lthe Spirit of the Lord will carry you I know not where. And so, when I come and tell Ahab and he cannot find you, he will kill me, although I your servant have feared the Lord from my youth. 13 Has it not been told my lord what I did ^mwhen Jezebel killed the prophets of the Lord, how I hid a hundred men of the Lord’s prophets by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water? 14 And now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here”’; and he will kill me.”

Jeremiah 20:9-10

9 If I say, “I will not mention him,
or speak any more in his name,”
ⁿthere is in my heart as it were a burning fire
shut up in my bones,
and ^oI am weary with holding it in,
and I cannot.
10 ^pFor I hear many whispering.
^qTerror is on every side!
“Denounce him! ^rLet us denounce him!”
say all my ^sclose friends,
^twatching for ^umy fall.
“Perhaps he will be deceived;
then ^vwe can overcome him
and take our revenge on him.”

Ezekiel 3:14

14 ^wThe Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness in the heat of my spirit, the ^xhand of the Lord being strong upon me.

Jonah 1:2-3

2 “Arise, go to ^yNineveh, that ^zgreat city, and call out against it, ^aafor their evil ^{▼▼The same Hebrew word can mean evil or disaster, depending on the context; so throughout Jonah} has come up before me.” 3 But Jonah ^acrose to flee to ^adTarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to ^aeJoppa and found a ship going to ^afTarshish. So he paid the fare and went down into it, to go with them to ^agTarshish, ^ahaway from the presence of the Lord.