Why God tried to kill Moses?
Exodus 4:24 (NIV) “At a lodging place on the way, the LORD met Moses and was about to kill him.” Meaning in its immediate setting What has just happened (4:18-23): Moses has finally accepted God’s call at the burning bush (chapters 3-4) and is on his way back to Egypt with his wife Zipporah and their sons. God has told him what to say to Pharaoh and has warned that judgment will fall on Egypt’s firstborn if Pharaoh refuses to let Israel (God’s “firstborn son”) go. The crisis (4:24-26): Suddenly the LORD confronts Moses and intends to kill him. Zipporah “took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ feet with it. ‘Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,’ she said. So the LORD let him alone.” What the text itself explains: Verse 26 concludes, “(At that time she said ‘bridegroom of blood,’ referring to circumcision.)” The LORD’s lethal anger is therefore linked to the boy’s lack of circumcision. Why uncircumcision was so serious: Genesis 17:9-14 (NIV) records God’s...