Exo 5:22 Then Moses turned to the LORD again and said, "Lord, why do you mistreat your people? Why did you send me here?
Exo 5:23 Ever since I went to the king to speak for you, he has treated them cruelly. And you have done nothing to help them!"
Moses went to pharaoh and asked him if he could let the Israelite go so that they can make sacrifice to the Lord. Pharaoh refused and made the Israelite’s life more difficult by not giving them straws for making bricks while at the same time forcing the Israelites to make the same number of bricks.
The Israelites blamed Moses for their difficulties.
“Lord why do you mistreat your people?”
This is the impatient question of a person that had been under slavery for so long, like the Israelite. For these people there is comfort in the security under slavery and freeing them is more difficult than enslaving them.
Weekly Bible Devotional
Jacob Wrestling with the ANGEL of GOD
And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.
And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.
And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
And he said unto him, What [is] thy name? And he said, Jacob.
And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
And Jacob asked [him], and said, Tell [me], I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore [is] it [that] thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.
Genesis32:23-31
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