_AND THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES, GO IN UNTO PHARAOH: FOR I HAVE HARDENED HIS HEART, AND THE HEART OF HIS_ _ SERVANTS, THAT I MIGHT SHEW THESE MY SIGNS BEFORE HIM:_ Show these my signs ... Sinners even of the worst description are to be admonished, even though there may be little hope of amendment; an... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THAT THOU MAYEST TELL IN THE EARS OF THY SON, AND OF THY SON'S SON, WHAT THINGS I HAVE WROUGHT IN EGYPT, AND MY SIGNS WHICH I HAVE DONE AMONG THEM; THAT YE MAY KNOW HOW THAT I AM THE LORD._ And that thou mayest tell ... There was a further and higher reason for the infliction of those awful ju... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MOSES AND AARON CAME IN UNTO PHARAOH, AND SAID UNTO HIM, THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD OF THE HEBREWS, HOW LONG WILT THOU REFUSE TO HUMBLE THYSELF BEFORE ME? LET MY PEOPLE GO, THAT THEY MAY SERVE ME._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_ELSE, IF THOU REFUSE TO LET MY PEOPLE GO, BEHOLD, TO MORROW WILL I BRING THE LOCUSTS INTO THY COAST:_ Tomorrow will I bring the locusts. Moses was commissioned to renew the request so often made and denied, with an assurance that an unfavourable answer would be followed on the morrow by an invasio... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY SHALL COVER THE FACE OF THE EARTH, THAT ONE CANNOT BE ABLE TO SEE THE EARTH: AND THEY SHALL EAT THE RESIDUE OF THAT WHICH IS ESCAPED, WHICH REMAINETH UNTO YOU FROM THE HAIL, AND SHALL EAT EVERY TREE WHICH GROWETH FOR YOU OUT OF THE FIELD:_ They shall cover the face of the earth - literall... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY SHALL FILL THY HOUSES, AND THE HOUSES OF ALL THY SERVANTS, AND THE HOUSES OF ALL THE EGYPTIANS; WHICH NEITHER THY FATHERS, NOR THY FATHERS' FATHERS HAVE SEEN, SINCE THE DAY THAT THEY WERE UPON THE EARTH UNTO THIS DAY. AND HE TURNED HIMSELF, AND WENT OUT FROM PHARAOH._ No JFB commentary on... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND PHARAOH'S SERVANTS SAID UNTO HIM, HOW LONG SHALL THIS MAN BE A SNARE UNTO US? LET THE MEN GO, THAT THEY MAY SERVE THE LORD THEIR GOD: KNOWEST THOU NOT YET THAT EGYPT IS DESTROYED?_ Pharaoh's servants said. Many of his courtiers must have suffered serious losses from the late visitations, and t... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES, STRETCH OUT THINE HAND OVER THE LAND OF EGYPT FOR THE LOCUSTS, THAT THEY MAY COME UP UPON THE LAND OF EGYPT, AND EAT EVERY HERB OF THE LAND, EVEN ALL THAT THE HAIL HATH LEFT._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MOSES STRETCHED FORTH HIS ROD OVER THE LAND OF EGYPT, AND THE LORD BROUGHT AN EAST WIND UPON THE LAND ALL THAT DAY, AND ALL THAT NIGHT; AND WHEN IT WAS MORNING, THE EAST WIND BROUGHT THE LOCUSTS._ The Lord brought an east wind - the rod of Moses was again raised, and the locusts came. They are... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LOCUSTS WENT UP OVER ALL THE LAND OF EGYPT, AND RESTED IN ALL THE COASTS OF EGYPT: VERY GRIEVOUS WERE THEY; BEFORE THEM THERE WERE NO SUCH LOCUSTS AS THEY, NEITHER AFTER THEM SHALL BE SUCH._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES, STRETCH OUT THINE HAND TOWARD HEAVEN, THAT THERE MAY BE DARKNESS OVER THE LAND OF EGYPT, EVEN DARKNESS WHICH MAY BE FELT._ Stretch out thine hand ... darkness. Whatever secondary means were employed in producing it-whether thick clammy fogs and vapours, according to s... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MOSES STRETCHED FORTH HIS HAND TOWARD HEAVEN; AND THERE WAS A THICK DARKNESS IN ALL THE LAND OF EGYPT THREE DAYS:_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEY SAW NOT ONE ANOTHER, NEITHER ROSE ANY FROM HIS PLACE FOR THREE DAYS: BUT ALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL HAD LIGHT IN THEIR DWELLINGS._ Neither rose any from his place - literally, 'they did not rise each one from under him; i:e., from that which he had under him.' The appalling character of this... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND PHARAOH CALLED UNTO MOSES, AND SAID, GO YE, SERVE THE LORD; ONLY LET YOUR FLOCKS AND YOUR HERDS BE STAYED: LET YOUR LITTLE ONES ALSO GO WITH YOU._ Pharaoh called unto Moses. Terrified by the preternatural darkness, the stubborn king relents, and proposes another compromise-the flocks and herds... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT THE LORD HARDENED PHARAOH'S HEART, AND HE WOULD NOT LET THEM GO._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND PHARAOH SAID UNTO HIM, GET THEE FROM ME, TAKE HEED TO THYSELF, SEE MY FACE NO MORE; FOR IN THAT DAY THOU SEEST MY FACE THOU SHALT DIE._ Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee from me. The calm firmness of Moses provoked the tyrant. Frantic with disappointment and rage, with offended and desperate mal... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MOSES SAID, THOU HAST SPOKEN WELL, I WILL SEE THY FACE AGAIN NO MORE._ Moses said, Thou hast spoken well.... [ Continue Reading ]