Glancing Through the Scriptures!

(KJV,)  EXODUS 5:15-24

Pharaoh oppresses Israel.

(15)  Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying;  Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?

(16)  There is no straw given unto thy servants and they say to us,  Make bricks and behold, thy servants are beaten, but the fault is in thine own people;

(17)  But he said,  Ye are idle, ye are idle;  therefore, ye say,  Let us go and do sacrifice to the LORD.

(18)  Go, therefore now, and work, for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.

(19)  And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case after it was said,  Ye, shall not minish aught from your bricks of your daily task.

(20)  And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh.

(21)  And they said unto them,  The LORD look upon you, and judge;  because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.

(22)  And Moses, returned unto the LORD; and said,  Lord, wherefore, hast thou so evil entreated this people?  why is it that thou hast sent me?

(23)  For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name; he hath done evil to this people; neither hast thou delivered thy people at all.

ADDENDUM

Why did not Pharaoh adhered to the words of God, at the initial commandment,  charging him to let his people get out of his land?