Then Pharaoh said unto him, But what hast thou lacked with me, that, behold, thou seekest to go to thine own country? And he answered, Nothing: howbeit let me go in any wise.
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Gill's Exposition
And God stirred him up another adversary,.... One from the north, as the other was from the south:
Rezon, the son of Eliadah, which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah: when David fought with…
Adam Clarke
Let me go in any wise - It does not appear that he avowed his real intention to Pharaoh; for at this time there must have been peace between Israel and Egypt, Solomon having married the daughter of…
While Solomon kept closely to God and to his duty there was no adversary nor evil occurrent (Kg1 5:4), nothing to create him any disturbance or uneasiness in the least; but here we have an account of…
Cambridge Bible
And he answered, Nothing The Hebrew has for the last word only the simple negative -Not." (See A.V. marg.) The verb -I have lacked" is to be supplied.
let me go in any wise The verb is not the same as…
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