Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Exodus 7:3
Wonders - A word used only of portents performed to prove a divine interposition; they were the credentials of God’s messengers.
Wonders - A word used only of portents performed to prove a divine interposition; they were the credentials of God’s messengers.
Verse Exodus 7:3. _I WILL HARDEN PHARAOH'S HEART_] I will permit his stubbornness and obstinacy still to remain, that I may have the greater opportunity to multiply my wonders in the land, that the E...
CHAPTER S 6:28-7:13 THE RENEWED COMMISSION AND BEFORE PHARAOH AGAIN _ 1. Renewed commission and renewed hesitation (Exodus 6:28)_ 2. Jehovah's instructions (Exodus 7:1) 3. Before Pharaoh and the si...
HARDEN. See note on Exodus 4:2....
DISCOURSE: 70 GOD HARDENING PHARAOH’S HEART Exodus 7:3. _I will harden Pharaoh’s heart._ AS there are in the works of creation many things which exceed the narrow limits of human understanding, so ar...
THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 7 And Je-ho-vah said unto Mo-ses. See, I have made thee as God to Pha-raoh; and Aar-on thy brother shall be thy prophet. (2) Thou shalt speak all that I command thee; an...
_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, n...
THE ROD OF MOSES TURNED INTO A SERPENT. THE FIRST PLAGUE 1. A god to Pharaoh] see on Exodus 4:16. THY PROPHET] A prophet is a spokesman. The prophets of God are those who declare His will. In doing th...
EXODUS: ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION THE *ISRAELITES LEAVE EGYPT EXODUS CHAPTER S 1 TO 18 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 7 V1 Then the *LORD replied to Moses. ‘Listen! Your brother, Aaron, w...
I WILL HARDEN PHARAOH’S HEART. — See the comment on Exodus 4:21. MY SIGNS AND MY WONDERS. — “Signs” (_‘othoth_) were miracles done as credentials, to prove a mission (Exodus 4:8; Exodus 4:30). “Wonder...
וַ אֲנִ֥י אַקְשֶׁ֖ה אֶת ־לֵ֣ב פַּרְעֹ֑ה וְ
CHAPTER VII. _ THE HARDENING OF PHARAOH'S HEART._ Exodus 7:3. When Moses received his commission, at the bush, words were spoken which are now repeated with more emphasis, and which have to be consi...
PHARAOH STUBBORN AGAINST ISRAEL'S RELEASE Exodus 6:28; Exodus 7:1 How often we say in a similar tone, “I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?” Forty years in the wildernes...
We have here the record of God's answer to Moses' difficulty. He reaffirmed Himself and charged His servant to speak to Pharaoh the things commanded. Moreover, He foretold the result of the delivery o...
_I shall harden, &c.; not by being the efficient cause of his hardness of heart, but by permitting it; and by withdrawing grace from him, in punishment of his malice; which alone was the proper cause...
See the observations on Exodus 4:21. See Exodus 7:13....
There is hardly a book of the Old Testament that stands out in more decided contrast with the book of Genesis than the one which follows it most closely. And this is the more striking, because God emp...
3._And I will harden. _As the expression is somewhat harsh, many commentators, as I have before said, take pains to soften it. Hence it is that some take the words in connection, “I will harden Pharao...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 5 THROUGH 13. At the news of the goodness of God, the people adore Him; but the struggle against the power of evil is another matter. Satan will not let the p...
AND I WILL HARDEN PHARAOH'S HEART,.... Exodus 4:21 AND MULTIPLY MY SIGNS AND MY WONDERS IN THE LAND OF EGYPT; work one miracle and wonderful sign after another, until they are all wrought intended t...
And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. Ver. 3. _And I will harden._] _See Trapp on "_ Exo 4:21 _"_ The Dutch have a proverb, _Quem Deus excaecat...
1 Moses is encouraged to go to Pharaoh. 7 His age. 8 His rod is turned into a Serpent. 11 The sorcerers do the like. 13 Pharaohs heart is hardened. 14 Gods message to Pharaoh. 19 The riuer is tu...
And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply My signs and wonders in the land of Egypt. Because Pharaoh would harden his heart in the first place, the Lord intended to punish him by leaving him in...
MOSES AS GOD'S AMBASSADOR TO PHARAOH...
D. MOSES AND AARON BEFORE PHARAOH. THE SEEMINGLY MISCHIEVOUAS EFFECT OF THEIR DIVINE MESSAGE, AND THE DISCOURAGMENT OF THE PEOPLE AND THE MESSENGERS THEMSELVES. GOD REVERSES THIS EFFECT NU SOLEMNLY PR...
GOD'S ANSWER TO MOSES (vs.1-7) Though Moses had protested that he was of uncircumcised lips, God assured him that He was making Moses a god to Pharaoh, therefore that Pharaoh would not be able to tot...
1-7 God glorifies himself. He makes people know that he is Jehovah. Israel is made to know it by the performance of his promises to them, and the Egyptians by the pouring out of his wrath upon them....
No text from Poole on this verse....
11 These five Chapter s form one distinct section, the contents of which may be distributed into the three following divisions, namely, the ten judgements from the hand of Jehovah; the resistance of...
Exodus 7:3 harden H7185 (H8686) Pharaohs H6547 heart H3820 multiply H7235 (H8689) signs H226 wonders H4159 land...
YAHWEH ENCOURAGES MOSES TO GO FORWARD (EXODUS 7:1). a Yahweh tells Moses that He has made him as a God to Pharaoh, with Aaron as his prophet (Exodus 7:1). b Moses is therefore to say all that Yahweh...
Exodus 7:3. The text brings before us the two great results which God forewarned Moses would rise from the struggle between His will and that of the king. On the one hand, the tyranny was to be gradua...
CONTENTS: Contest with Pharaoh. First plague. Water turned to blood. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron, Pharaoh, magician. CONCLUSION: We see God's almighty power, the unstability of all things under th...
Exodus 7:1. _I have made thee a god._ אלהים _Elohim._ The Chaldaic renders it תחי ליה לרב Thou shalt be to him for a prince. The divine sense of the word is, I have invested thee with Godlike powers t...
_I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply My signs and My wonders._ THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN GOD’S WILL AND PHARAOH’S The text brings before us the two great results which God forewarned Moses would r...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 7:3. I will harden Pharaoh’s heart.]—Elsewhere also is the act of hardening Pharaoh’s heart attributed to Jehovah, as in Exodus 4:21; Exodus 9:12;...
EXPOSITION EXODUS 7:1 Once more God made allowance for the weakness and self-distrust of Moses, severely tried as he had been by his former failure to persuade Pharaoh (Exodus 5:1) and his recent rej...
And the Lord said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet. Thou shalt speak all that I command thee: and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Phara...
And I Exodus 4:21 Exodus 4:29 multiply Exodus 4:7 Exodus 9:16 Exodus 11:9...
FAITH AS EXEMPLIFIED IN MOSES Selections from Exodus 3:1; Exodus 6:1; Exodus 7:1; Exodus 8:1;...