CONTENTS In this Chapter we have a relation of God's ambassadors, Moses and Aaron., appearing before Pharaoh to demand, in God's name, permission for Israel to hold a feast unto the Lord in the wilderness. Pharaoh's answer, in which he despiseth God, is also recorded. The ambassadors urge the neces... [ Continue Reading ]
Reader! Pause over this awful confession of the impious monarch: he knew not the Lord! a dreadful state. And yet this want of the knowledge of the Lord is the cause of all the sin and contempt of the Lord throughout the earth. See Job 21:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
Here is an appeal to Pharaoh's wisdom and humanity since he had no religion, that he might not lose his subjects by God's judgments. An eastern prince thought it right to be guided by this policy in after ages. See Ezra 7:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
This complaint of the idleness of the Israelites was false. See Exodus 1:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
Probably those task-masters were Egyptians, and the officers under them were Israelites, from among the people. Observe the woe upon such characters. Isaiah 10:1. It was this which made the publicans, that is tax-gatherers, in our Lord's days so odious. Matthew 18:17.... [ Continue Reading ]
That is a suitable prayer for souls so exercised, 2 Thessalonians 3:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
James 5:8... [ Continue Reading ]
James 2:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
Romans 14:10... [ Continue Reading ]
Isaiah 53:7... [ Continue Reading ]
While the Israelites were borne down under the pressure of the most severe labour, this monster of iniquity declared them to be idle. John 15:21.... [ Continue Reading ]
Acts 14:22.... [ Continue Reading ]
Genesis 34:30; Jonah 4:4. Reader! recollect how the people had bowed their head in token of their trust in God's promises to deliver them. And here we behold them, not only relinquishing their confidence, but even murmuring because difficulties had arisen. And do we not, when at anytime any thwartin... [ Continue Reading ]
It is right in all our distresses to return to the Lord. Provided we do not complain of God, we are commanded to complain to God. See Isaiah 37:14. How different this from the conduct of Jeremiah. See Jeremiah 20:7. Lord! what is man in his highest attainments?... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS To what a daring height of profaneness and impiety is the human heart capable of arriving, unrestrained by Almighty grace! Lord, keep me from that awful desperately wicked state which is here described in the character of this wretch, who from not liking to retain God in his knowledge w... [ Continue Reading ]