So Moses cried out to the Lord, saying, “What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me!”
Parallel translations
- WEB Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”
- KJV And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.
- BSB Then Moses cried out to the LORD, “What should I do with these people? A little more and they will stone me!”
- NASB So Moses cried out to the Lord, saying, “What am I to do with this people? A little more and they will stone me!”
- NLT Then Moses cried out to the Lord, “What should I do with these people? They are ready to stone me!”
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Quick answer
Moses cried out to Yahweh, fearing the people were ready to stone him. The faithful leader turned to God amid threat.
Overview
Caught between a rebellious people and his own helplessness, Moses brings his distress to the Lord in prayer. His turning to God models the right response of a leader under pressure: dependence rather than retaliation. Moses, mediating between God and a hostile people, foreshadows Christ, who intercedes for those who oppose him.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- 1 Sam 30:6David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.
- Num 14:10But all the congregation threatened to stone them with stones. Yahweh’s glory appeared in the Tent of Meeting to all the children of Israel.
- John 8:59Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the middle of them, and so passed by.
- Acts 14:19But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.
- John 10:31Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him.
- Exod 15:25Then he cried to Yahweh. Yahweh showed him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there he tested them;
- Num 16:19Korah assembled all the congregation opposite them to the door of the Tent of Meeting. Yahweh’s glory appeared to all the congregation.
- Acts 7:50Didn’t my hand make all these things?’
- Num 11:11Moses said to Yahweh, “Why have you treated with your servant so badly? Why haven’t I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?
- Exod 14:15Yahweh said to Moses, “Why do you cry to me? Speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward.
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The Passover lamb whose blood turns away death, the exodus through the sea, the manna, the rock, and the tabernacle where God dwells with his people all foreshadow Jesus — our Passover, our redemption, the bread from heaven, and God-with-us in the flesh.
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