_AND THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES, SEE, I HAVE MADE THEE A GOD TO PHARAOH: AND AARON THY BROTHER SHALL BE THY PROPHET._ The Lord said unto Moses. He is here encouraged to wait again on the king-not, however, as formerly in the attitude of a humble suppliant, but now armed with credentials as God's amba... [ Continue Reading ]
_THOU SHALT SPEAK ALL THAT I COMMAND THEE: AND AARON THY BROTHER SHALL SPEAK UNTO PHARAOH, THAT HE SEND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL OUT OF HIS LAND._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND I WILL HARDEN PHARAOH'S HEART, AND MULTIPLY MY SIGNS AND MY WONDERS IN THE LAND OF EGYPT._ I WILL HARDEN PHARAOH'S HEART. This would be the result; but the divine message would be the occasion, not the cause of the king's impenitent obduracy. God did not assuredly harden the heart of the Egypti... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT PHARAOH SHALL NOT HEARKEN UNTO YOU, THAT I MAY LAY MY HAND UPON EGYPT, AND BRING FORTH MINE ARMIES, AND MY PEOPLE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT BY GREAT JUDGMENTS._ Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt. The succession of terrible judgments wi... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MOSES AND AARON DID AS THE LORD COMMANDED THEM, SO DID THEY._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MOSES WAS FOURSCORE YEARS OLD, AND AARON FOURSCORE AND THREE YEARS OLD, WHEN THEY SPAKE UNTO PHARAOH._ Moses was fourscore years old ... The advanced age of the brothers was a pledge that they had not been readily betrayed into a rash or hazardous enterprise, and a proof, at the same time, tha... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES AND UNTO AARON, SAYING,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHEN PHARAOH SHALL SPEAK UNTO YOU, SAYING, SHEW A MIRACLE FOR YOU: THEN THOU SHALT SAY UNTO AARON, TAKE THY ROD, AND CAST IT BEFORE PHARAOH, AND IT SHALL BECOME A SERPENT._ When Pharaoh shall speak ... Since the king would naturally demand some evidence of their having been sent from God, Moses an... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MOSES AND AARON WENT IN UNTO PHARAOH, AND THEY DID SO AS THE LORD HAD COMMANDED: AND AARON CAST DOWN HIS ROD BEFORE PHARAOH, AND BEFORE HIS SERVANTS, AND IT BECAME A SERPENT._ Aaron cast down his rod .... It is to be presumed that Pharaoh had demanded a proof of their divine mission.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN PHARAOH ALSO CALLED THE WISE MEN AND THE SORCERERS: NOW THE MAGICIANS OF EGYPT, THEY ALSO DID IN LIKE MANNER WITH THEIR ENCHANTMENTS._ Then Pharaoh ... called the wise men and the sorcerers, х_ LACHªKAAMIYM_ (H2450), the wise men; _ WªLAMªKASHªPIYM_ (H3784), and the sorcerers] - those who use... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR THEY CAST DOWN EVERY MAN HIS ROD, AND THEY BECAME SERPENTS: BUT AARON'S ROD SWALLOWED UP THEIR RODS._ But Aaron's rod ... This was what they could not be prepared for, and the discomfiture appeared in the loss of their rods, which were probably real serpents.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE HARDENED PHARAOH'S HEART, THAT HE HEARKENED NOT UNTO THEM; AS THE LORD HAD SAID._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES, PHARAOH'S HEART IS HARDENED, HE REFUSETH TO LET THE PEOPLE GO._ Pharaoh's heart is hardened. Whatever might have been his first impressions, they were soon dispelled; and when he found his magicians making similar attempts, he concluded that Aaron's affair was a magic... [ Continue Reading ]
_GET THEE UNTO PHARAOH IN THE MORNING; LO, HE GOETH OUT UNTO THE WATER; AND THOU SHALT STAND BY THE RIVER'S BRINK AGAINST HE COME; AND THE ROD WHICH WAS TURNED TO A SERPENT SHALT THOU TAKE IN THINE HAND._ Get thee unto Pharaoh. Now therefore began those appalling miracles of judgment by which the G... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THOU SHALT SAY UNTO HIM, THE LORD GOD OF THE HEBREWS HATH SENT ME UNTO THEE, SAYING, LET MY PEOPLE GO, THAT THEY MAY SERVE ME IN THE WILDERNESS: AND, BEHOLD, HITHERTO THOU WOULDEST NOT HEAR._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAY UNTO AARON, TAKE THY ROD, AND STRETCH OUT THINE HAND UPON THE WATERS OF EGYPT, UPON THEIR STREAMS, UPON THEIR RIVERS, AND UPON THEIR PONDS, AND UPON ALL THEIR POOLS OF WATER, THAT THEY MAY BECOME BLOOD; AND THAT THERE MAY BE BLOOD THROUGHOUT ALL THE LAND OF EGYPT,... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MOSES AND AARON DID SO, AS THE LORD COMMANDED; AND HE LIFTED UP THE ROD, AND SMOTE THE WATERS THAT WERE IN THE RIVER, IN THE SIGHT OF PHARAOH, AND IN THE SIGHT OF HIS SERVANTS; AND ALL THE WATERS THAT WERE IN THE RIVER WERE TURNED TO BLOOD._ Moses and Aaron did so, as the Lord commanded - i:e.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE FISH THAT WAS IN THE RIVER DIED; AND THE RIVER STANK, AND THE EGYPTIANS COULD NOT DRINK OF THE WATER OF THE RIVER; AND THERE WAS BLOOD THROUGHOUT ALL THE LAND OF EGYPT._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE MAGICIANS OF EGYPT DID SO WITH THEIR ENCHANTMENTS: AND PHARAOH'S HEART WAS HARDENED, NEITHER DID HE HEARKEN UNTO THEM; AS THE LORD HAD SAID._ The magicians of Egypt did so with their enchantments. Little or no pure water could be got, and therefore their imitation must have been on a small... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND PHARAOH TURNED AND WENT INTO HIS HOUSE, NEITHER DID HE SET HIS HEART TO THIS ALSO._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ALL THE EGYPTIANS DIGGED ROUND ABOUT THE RIVER FOR WATER TO DRINK; FOR THEY COULD NOT DRINK OF THE WATER OF THE RIVER._ All the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink. The polluted state of their river was a severe calamity, as the want of their favourite beverage, the Nile... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SEVEN DAYS WERE FULFILLED, AFTER THAT THE LORD HAD SMITTEN THE RIVER._ Seven days were fulfilled, after the Lord had smitten the river. The natural impression conveyed by these words is, that the plague continued for the space of a week; and Osburn ('Mon. Hist.,' 2:, p. 578) tries to explain i... [ Continue Reading ]