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Matthew Poole and continuators on Exodus 18:23

Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Browse this work.

Exodus18:23

23 If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so , then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace .

If God approve of the course which I suggest, to whose wisdom I submit my opinion. For Iethro might well think, that Moses neither would nor might make so great an alteration in the government without consulting God about it and expecting his answer. Others render the place thus, both God will give thee his commands, i. e. thou wilst have leisure to ask and take his counsel in all emergencies, which now thou hast not, and thou wilst be able to endure.

To their several habitations, which are called mens places, Iudg. 7. 7. and 9. 55. and 19. 28, 29. where their calling and business lies, from which they are now diverted and detained by fruitless and wearisome attendances.

Orderly and quietly having their minds much eased by this course and their contentions soon ended.

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