The Lord tried to kill Moses?

ByTheSpirit · Feb 18, 2013

Exodus 4:24-26, "At a lodging place on the way, the Lord met [Moses] and was about to kill him. But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her sons foreskin and touched [Moses] feet with it. Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me, she said. So the Lord let him alone. (At that time she said bridegroom of blood, referring to circumcision.)"

What do you think this is about?

Watchman4hm · Feb 18, 2013

It is believed that Zipporah influenced Moses to abstain from Gods command to circumcise his eldest son which was against Gods commandment in Genesis 17:9-13

Bob Carabbio · Feb 18, 2013

Yup - Moses DIDN'T do something that HE KNEW he should have done, and came close to paying the price to it. God is VERY protective of his "Types". That's why Moses, in the final analysis was disqualified from entering the promised land (when he STRUCK the rock - again).

K2K · Feb 18, 2013

Is Christ our Saviour?

Who was going to kill us?

Do we need a high priest to offer a sacrifice?

Is Christ our high priets?

Does He wash our feet, in a spiritual sense?

Is the Bible written as a parable?

And why was the Bible written?

We have a bridegroom, the blood, and so much more in the verse. Was it ever really about circucision of the flesh?

To me it is nothing more than a parable that helps explain that we need the Lord Jesus Christ, and the word He did on the cross. None of us, including Moses, was ever going to be good enough to get into heaven with out our Lord.

Moses was a murderer. But that didn't stop God from using Him to take the people to the promise land! So Moses almost got kill except for the blood, band because of the blood He still could have taken the people to the promise land. And it wasn't that Moses struck the rock but rather because Moses didn't keep the command to speak to the rock in front of the congregation which keep Moses and Aaron from leading the people into the promise land.

Are you qualified to lead God's people if you don't listen to the rock? There is only one thing truely necessary, and that is listening to the rock. Moses was on the mount of transfiguration, so he did truly make it to the promise land. But certainly Jesus, Yeshua, Joshua, was going to have to take the people in.

Watchman4hm · Feb 18, 2013

K2K said:
Is Christ our Saviour?

Who was going to kill us?

Do we need a high priest to offer a sacrifice?

Is Christ our high priets?

Does He wash our feet, in a spiritual sense?

Is the Bible written as a parable?

And why was the Bible written?

We have a bridegroom, the blood, and so much more in the verse. Was it ever really about circucision of the flesh?

To me it is nothing more than a parable that helps explain that we need the Lord Jesus Christ, and the word He did on the cross. None of us, including Moses, was ever going to be good enough to get into heaven with out our Lord.

Moses was a murderer. But that didn't stop God from using Him to take the people to the promise land! So Moses almost got kill except for the blood, band because of the blood He still could have taken the people to the promise land. And it wasn't that Moses struck the rock but rather because Moses didn't keep the command to speak to the rock in front of the congregation which keep Moses and Aaron from leading the people into the promise land.

Are you qualified to lead God's people if you don't listen to the rock? There is only one thing truely necessary, and that is listening to the rock. Moses was on the mount of transfiguration, so he did truly make it to the promise land. But certainly Jesus, Yeshua, Joshua, was going to have to take the people in.

What the heck are you rambling on about? Did you read the scripture?..Did you read the OP's question?..His question was answered in a scriptural way..As for your other stuff..Moses was instructed to "smote" the rock the first time..The second time he was told to "speak" to the rock...The rock=Jesus...He was sacrificed ONCE for our transgressions and now we "speak to Him"...Moses pride got the worst of him because of the murmuring of the congregation and he disobeyed God again, and didnt get to see the promised land..Bob talked about the rock, the OP talked about The Lord wanting to kill Moses...Next time quote someone so we know where your coming from..

lismore · Feb 18, 2013

Zipporah understood well:

without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness (Hebrews 9:22)

Without blood no forgiveness, even for Moses.

murjahel · Feb 18, 2013

In Ex 4, the 'him' that God was about to kill, was Moses' son, not Moses. To not be circumcised, in the law, was to bring a death sentence then... Moses had not circumcised his son yet, and Zipporah was obviously the reaon... When God spoke that this would then bring the death of her son, she begrudgingly circumcised him. So, if the verse out of context looks like it was Moses to be the one to be killed, no... look at the context and see that it was the son, not Moses...

ByTheSpirit · Feb 18, 2013

murjahel said:
In Ex 4, the 'him' that God was about to kill, was Moses' son, not Moses. To not be circumcised, in the law, was to bring a death sentence then... Moses had not circumcised his son yet, and Zipporah was obviously the reaon... When God spoke that this would then bring the death of her son, she begrudgingly circumcised him. So, if the verse out of context looks like it was Moses to be the one to be killed, no... look at the context and see that it was the son, not Moses...

Actually I extracted the quote in the OP from Online Parallel Bible: Weaving God's Word into the Web NIV84. I didn't change a thing. I have other translations as well which support it as being Moses and not his son that was about killed.

murjahel · Feb 18, 2013

Exodus 4:23-24 (KJV)
23 And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn.
24 And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him.

Read this verse 23 with 24... and we see God was talking about killing the son, not Moses...

ByTheSpirit · Feb 18, 2013

Exodus 4:21-26
21The Lord said to Moses, When you return to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders I have given you the power to do. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go. 22Then say to Pharaoh, This is what the Lord says: Israel is my firstborn son, 23and I told you, Let my son go, so he may worship me. But you refused to let him go; so I will kill your firstborn son.
24At a lodging place on the way, the Lord met [Moses]b and was about to kill him. 25But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her sons foreskin and touched [Moses] feet with it.c Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me, she said. 26So the Lord let him alone. (At that time she said bridegroom of blood, referring to circumcision.)

context says that God told Moses to tell Pharoah that Israel was His firstborn son and Pharoah should let him (Israel) go or his (Pharoah) son would die instead. Then the narrative of the OP begins.

Faulty · Feb 18, 2013

Jasher 78:9 says a bit about this, "And Zipporah conceived and bare a son and he called his name Gershom, for he said, I was a stranger in a foreign land; but he circumcised not his foreskin, at the command of Reuel his father-in-law."

And again in 79:8-9, "And Moses rose up to go to Egypt, and he took his wife and sons with him, and he was at an inn in the road, and an angel of God came down, and sought an occasion against him. And he wished to kill him on account of his first born son, because he had not circumcised him, and had transgressed the covenant which the Lord had made with Abraham."

ByTheSpirit · Feb 18, 2013

Thanks Faulty! Is the book of Jasher part of the Apochrypha?

Faulty · Feb 18, 2013

I think of it more as a non-inspired, but biblically-referenced history book, such as in Joshua 10:13 and 2 Sam 1:18.

D2wing · Feb 18, 2013

Like Samuel Clemons said" It's not the parts of the Bible I don't understand that bother me, it the parts I do."

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