Who Was Responsible For Moses Death Essay

Within the text of the bible, in the early chapters of Exodus. The Pharaoh of Egypt has an irrational fear of being overthrown by the Hebrews. Due to this, he orders the Midwives to kill the newborn Hebrew boys. This specifically points out the pharaoh overlooking the killing of the female Hebrew babies, and overlooking the power of the midwives. The Pharaoh was simply did not see the women as being a threat to him.

Immediately after the Second World War, Robert Moses’ power increased exponentially. He then, got a control over city’s housing authority. Huge amount of money was spent by the federal government on the public housing and low income housing. This money was spent in New York at the command of Robert Moses. Up to that point Moses had been building mostly parks and bridges, now, he was going to build inside the city. No one could have predicted the magnitude of explosion that would overtake New York. Moses demanded to be the construction co-ordinater. The construction co-ordinater has to represent the city in all its dealing with federal government. And therefore, he got a control over public housing and federal money. In the end of the year 1948,

"And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said Because I drew him out of the water."

Moses is born at the time where the pharaoh decides to kill all the first born boys.

Recognition of God's sovereignty is at the heart of worship,--the driving theme of the Book of Exodus,--and the reason God so severely punishes the Egyptians. God does not punish the Egyptians for keeping the Israelites as slaves. God punishes the Egyptians for Pharaoh's attempt to better God by sacrificing His firstborn: Israel. Although many arguments can be made against human sacrifice, none mitigates God's anger with Pharaoh. In general, God's anger is rarely pacified: not even Moses protects the Israelite idol worshipers at Mt. Sinai. At Moses' command, the Levites slay three thousand of their brothers, friends, and neighbors--the innocent along with the guilty. Believing God's wrath has branded them with righteousness, Moses praises the survivors as "blessed." God has other plans: another plague. With the deaths of those who break Faith, God is satisfied. As Supreme Ruler, God defends those who worship Him and destroys those who worship idols. After leading the defeat of the Amalekites at Rephidim, Moses

Moses was tending to his father-in-law’s sheep when he saw a burning bush. The bush was not being consumed by the fire. God called out to him and told him he was on Holy ground. God then explained that the Hebrews were suffering and that He was going to send them to a great land flowing with milk and honey. This place was called the Promised Land. God sent Moses to the Pharaoh to let the Hebrews go. Moses questioned his authority to do what God told him. God explained that He would be with Moses on his journey. Moses questioned whether the Hebrews will know who God is. God then says “I am who I am” this was what Moses was to tell the Hebrews.

He says that the Egyptians would mock the Israelites, laughing that their God would lead them out of their servitude only to face destruction at his own hands. Rather than respecting his power, they would see that he was either unable or unwilling to complete the salvation he set his people upon. And so the Lord agres to set aside his anger at the people, while Moses returns to them with God’s commandments.

The Pharaoh demanded that all the Hebrew baby boys be put to death (thrown in the Nile). I think the person telling this story is possibly Moses's sister because it explains that “his sister stood at a distance, to see what would happen to him”. This is how she could tell the story because I feel as if she was always keeping an eye on him. In the story, Moses is found by the Pharaoh’s daughter, who decided to find him a nurse and keep him as her own (her son) when she grew up. I feel like the Pharaoh would find out that Moses is not her child and be killed. I think the purpose of this story is to show hope and love even in the worst of times.

The interesting aspect of this story, however, is that the servant is Miriam the prophet, Moses’ sister. Miriam, later translated into Mary (Bible Hub n.pag.), ensured the safe keeping of Moses by watching his descent down the Nile and by suggesting the wet nurse be his actual mother (unknown to the pharaoh’s daughter), Jochebed (NRSV, Exodus 2:7-2:8). The same qualities that we see in Puah reflected in Miriam, though Miriam is never said to marry or bear children. Without the rebellion of both the daughter of Pharaoh and Miriam, the exodus would not have occurred, making both just as vital to his ability to succeed as

The moment had arrived, after 40 years of wondering throughout the Sinai wilderness the Jewish People were ready to enter into the Land of Israel. In his final speech, Moses the only man to see God “face to face”, the man who had carried the burdens of an entire nation for 40 years as a faithful shepherd was nearing the end of his days. They would cross the might Jordan River, but he by divine decree would remain on the other side to be buried in an unmarked grave in Moab by the Almighty himself.

The book starts out mentioning that Joseph and his descendants have past and a new king has risen that does not know of him and because of this the Pharaoh feared the Israelites going too quickly and enslaved them, forcing them into hard labor and other duties within the Kingdom. This did not do much to stop them so he then ordered that all newborn Hebrew boys should be killed which is where Moses comes in. After being hidden in the Nile river and found by Pharaoh’s daughter, he was raised in the royal court and leaves once he becomes an older child because he decided to kill an Egyptian tormented a fellow Israelite. After this is where he is met by God and his journey with the Israelites and mission to rescue them from slavery to the Promised Land begins (Coogan and Redmount 2001, pg 60). After Moses parts the Red Sea the make camo at Sinai and this is where God meets not only Moses but the Israelites as well and makes a covenant with them called the Ten Commandments and a series of laws called the Book of the Covenant and details on how to build a temple where Jesus will reside (Exodus 20-23; 24:7;

Moses asks God why he should be the one to go and tell the pharaoh what to do, saying "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt? (Exodus 3:11), after all, Moses was just a shepherd and didn't think that he was worthy of this task. God replies to him saying “I will certainly be with you. And this shall be a sign to you that I have sent you:

Exodus 1:20 states that “God dealt well with the midwives. And the people multiplied and grew very strong.” The next verse reveals that God even gave the women their own families for being God-fearing people. God rewarded the midwives for their reaction to the evil acts that was being asked of them, but Pharaoh still continued to command that every newborn boy be killed by being thrown into the Nile. One might question why Pharaoh ordered this murderous act to be carried out and why it fell on the shoulders of Shiphrah and Puah.

The Israelites reach the borders of the Promised Land and Moses reviews the people’s history in the wilderness and pleads with them to be faithful to the law and to be obedient after they posses the land. Moses is old by this time and he stresses the covenant made between God and Israel through Abraham, Moses and the people reaffirm the covenant and reminding them of the blessings that will come if the people are obedient. The Lord will not allow Moses to cross the river Jordan with them and Joshua becomes his Successor.

“But since then there has not arisen in Israel, a prophet like Moses, whom the lord knew face to face, in all the signs and wonders which the lord sent him to do in the land of Egypt before pharaoh, before all the servants, and in all his land, and by all that mighty power and all the great terror which Moses performed in the sight of all Israel.” (Deuteronomy 34:10-12) We first encounter Moses in the book of Exodus in chapter 1, we learn that after the patriarch Joseph rescued his family from the great famine and situated them in Egypt the land of Goshen. The descendants of Abraham lived in peace for several generations until there rose to power a pharaoh who Joseph meant nothing to.