One day, Moses happened upon two fierce street fighters and intervened on the side of his brother, the Jewish slave. He believed that he was on the side of God and good, fulfilling a divine mission. By the next day, he could hardly take another open walk along the same streets. They had become unsafe. He had tried to intervene in another street fight between two brothers and had been rudely put away by the aggressor, with a veiled threat that referenced his yesterday.
He had killed and buried the enemy the day before, in a quick, shallow grave. He was very sure that nobody else had seen him. The next day, social media was already digging up his carefully buried patriotic involvements of the recent past. What he thought was a well-intentioned secret support to his own people had been posted as a national threat. Overnight. Even the king had heard of it so quickly – but it happened only yesterday! His careful secret connections had suddenly become a matter of public concern. It was already on Egypt’s social media, and Pharaoh’s secret police were after his life (Exodus 2:11-15; Acts 7:22-29). Who told Pharaoh, an Egyptian or a Jew?
What happened had happened in the poor slums of Goshen, where the Jewish slaves lived. Pharaoh didn’t live there. Pharaoh lived far away in the exclusive, opulent palace reserves, several unapproachable security checkpoints away. There were no telephones, not even if all the poor slaves could afford one. Who then told Pharaoh? Was it the endangered brother he had delivered from the terrorist Egyptian yesterday, who had recklessly ‘testified’ on social media about his rare ‘princely deliverance’ from an Egyptian brute, and thus exposed him? If so, alas, what careless and “dangerous testimony”! What proud and foolish tactless ‘testimony’! Unless to massage his slavish ego about connections to “Prince Moses,” did he have to give every ‘testimony’ everywhere? On the other hand, did Pharaoh have his paid agents among the sufferers in Goshen? Hungry, shameless agents hired to report against their own people for a fee from the palace of their oppressors? As they would say, “With us, but for them; among us but against us”? That was unthinkable, but from his trained princely instincts, Moses could tell that that was what had happened. A Doeg! (1 Samuel 22:9-20). Whatever the case, Pharaoh was already after his life. Moses had to flee the country immediately.
Who told Pharaoh, an Egyptian or a Jew?
From The Preacher’s diary,
November 6, 2025.
I guess Pharaoh was told by an Egyptian who perhaps heard the israelites discussing the supposed secret.
Anyway, a man’s enemies are those of his own household.
Hmmmm. Who told Pharaoh? I’m bombazzled! But, who told Pharaoh? I feel abducted by both the caption and content. I pray I can ever recover from their binding grips.
Indeed what seem to be a secret will be voiced out as a result of grievances of the looser of a fight. Looking at the scenario of Moses meeting his brothers fighting, in cause of settling them resulted to a reminder of his crime yesterday saying “have you come to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?”. Such questions can put anyone off balance as he or she run for his dear life. Who told Pharaoh? The tone shows that the statement was loud, anybody can go to report to the king either an Egyptian or a Jew.
Yes indeed good question, who told Pharaoh ?
Pharaoh was told when Moses had tried to intervene in another street fight between two brothers and had been rudely put away by the aggressor, in public audience with a veiled threat that referenced his yesterday.
The Aggressor in the second event was a Jew most likely the same person involved in the first event. The aggressor most likely a troublesome brute who was aggressively fighting every other day.
Who told Pharaoh? Only God knows Prof. Often what is whispered in closed rooms, is carried by a bird and broadcast on rooftops. God preserve our missions in Jesus mighty name
Amen
It was certainly a Jew that told on Moses.
“…careless and dangerous… proud and foolish tactless testimony…”
The description above caught my attention. This is because of the prevalent of such even in our worship centres.
I personally feel that some testimonies are not meant to be shared in public becausr of their high sensitivity.
Thank you sir.
Great grace.