Exodus 11:9

_AND THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES, PHARAOH SHALL NOT HEARKEN UNTO YOU; THAT MY WONDERS MAY BE MULTIPLIED IN THE LAND OF EGYPT._ No JFB commentary on this verse....

9._And the Lord said unto Moses. _This seems to be a representation of the reason why Moses was so angry; viz., because he had been forewarned that he had to do with a lost and desperate man. When, therefore, after so many contests, he sees the dominion of God despised by the audacity and madness of the tyrant, deeper indignation bursts from him in their last struggle; especially because he sees before his eyes that detestable prodigy, viz., an earthen vessel so bold as to provoke God with indomitable obstinacy. But God had foretold to Moses (as we have already seen) the end of this his exceeding stubbornness, lest, having so often suffered repulse, he should faint at length. Otherwise, there might have crept in no trifling temptation, as to how it could please God to contend in vain with a mortal man. And it was absurd that the hardness of a human heart could not be either subdued, or c...

4-10 The death of all the first-born in Egypt at once: this plague had been the first threatened, but is last executed. See how slow God is to wrath. The plague is foretold, the time is fixed; all their first-born should sleep the sleep of death, not silently, but so as to rouse the families at midnight. The prince was not too high to be reached by it, nor the slaves at the mill too low to be noticed. While angels slew the Egyptians, not so much as a dog should bark at any of the children of Israel. It is an earnest of the difference there shall be in the great day, between God's people and his enemies. Did men know what a difference God puts, and will put to eternity, between those that serve him and those that serve him not, religion would not seem to them an indifferent thing; nor would they act in it with so much carelessness as they do. When Moses had thus delivered his message, he...

Verse Exodus 11:9. _PHARAOH SHALL NOT HEARKEN UNTO YOU_] Though _shall_ and _will_ are both reputed signs of the future tense, and by many indiscriminately used, yet they make a most essential difference in composition in a variety of cases. For instance, if we translate לא ישמע _lo yishma_, Pharaoh SHALL _not hearken_, as in our text, the word _shall_ strongly intimates that it was _impossible_ for Pharaoh to hearken, and that God _had placed him under that_ _impossibility_: but if we translate as we should do, Pharaoh WILL _not_ hearken, it alters the case most essentially, and agrees with the many passages in the preceding chapters, where he is said to _have hardened his own heart_; as this proves that he, without any impulsive necessity, obstinately refused to attend to what Moses said or threatened; and that God took the advantage of...

EXPOSITION Before proceeding to relate the last and greatest of the plagues, the author allows himself a momentary pause while he casts his eye back on the whole series of miracles hitherto wrought in Egypt, on the circumstances under which they had been wrought, their failure to move the stubborn will of Pharaoh, and the cause of that failure, the hardening of his heart, which hardening the author once more ascribes to Jehovah. With this summary he terminates the second great division of his work, that which began with Exodus 2:1; and which traces the history of Moses from his birth to the close of his direct dealings with Pharaoh. EXODUS 11:9 AND THE LORD SAID. Rather, "had said." God had forewarned Moses that Pharaoh's heart would be hardened ...

AND THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES,.... Not at this time when he went out from Pharaoh, but some time before this, for the words may be rendered, "the Lord had said" x, for so he had, as is related, Exodus 7:3, but the historian makes mention of it here, to show that Moses was not ignorant of the event of things; he knew that Pharaoh's heart would be hardened from time to time, and that one plague after another must be inflicted, before he would let the people go; and therefore when he prayed for the removal of any, it was not in expectation that he would abide by his promise, but to do the will of God, and the duty of his calling: PHARAOH SHALL NOT HEARKEN UNTO YOU; to Moses and Aaron, and let the people of Israel go as required of him: THAT MY WONDERS MAY BE MULTIPLIED IN THE LAND OF EGYPT; which Jarchi interprets of the smiting of the firstborn, dividing the wat

CHAPTER 11 THE TENTH PLAGUE ANNOUNCED _ 1. God's Word to Moses and to the people (Exodus 11:1)_ 2. The tenth plague announced to Pharaoh (Exodus 11:4) 3. Pharaoh's unbelief and his heart hardened (Exodus 11:9) In chapter 10:29 we hear Moses say to Pharaoh, “I will see thy face again no more.” In this chapter, however, we hear him address Pharaoh once more concerning the tenth plague judgment. The announcement made to Moses and recorded in the first verse of this chapter occurred before the inter-view of the previous chapter and Exodus 11:4 in chapter 11 is the continuation of Moses' address to Pharaoh after he had

EXODUS 7:14 TO EXODUS 12:36. THE TEN PLAGUES. How deeply this series of events imprinted itself on the mind and heart of the nation is shown by the fulness with which the three sources report them. J 1° 2° 4° 5° 7° 8° 9° 10° E 1° 7° 8° 9° 10° P 1° 2° 3° 6° 10° 1°, river turned to blood; 2°, frogs; 3°, fice (gnats); 4°, flies; 5°, murrain; 6°, boils; 7°, hail; 8°, locusts; 9°, darkness; 10°, death of firstborn. A sound historical judgment will conclude, both from this fact and from the nature of the occurrences mentioned, as well as from the need for _some_ such group of causes to account for the escape of the tribes, that the traditions have a firm foothold in real events. But since not less than four centuries intervened between the events and the earliest of our sources, it is not to b

AND THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES— These verses, being added as a kind of close to the foregoing Chapter s, we should certainly read (as the original will allow us) _the Lord had said unto Moses,_ &c. REFLECTIONS.—The blow was long suspended. Now it descends. God tries lesser chastisements first, to bring men to repentance; but when they are found incorrigible, then vengeance overtakes them to the uttermost. 1. The judgment is denounced; the time fixed, at dead of night; the extent of it, from the prince to the slave: Israel alone is exempted. In _their_ dwellings there shall be life and joy, while death and mourning shall fill the houses of the Egyptians. _Note;_ Death, as the wages of sin, can never hurt those who are passed from death unto life, and live by faith on the Son of God. 2. It is foretold how suppliant the proud prosecutors would grow; and hereupon Moses with indignation leave...

THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 11AND JE-HO-VAH SAID UNTO MO-SES, YET ONE PLAGUE MORE WILL I BRING UPON PHA-RAOH, AND UPON E-GYPT; AFTERWARDS HE WILL LET YOU GO HENCE; WHEN HE SHALL LET YOU GO, HE SHALL SURELY THRUST YOU OUT HENCE ALTOGETHER. (2) SPEAK NOW IN THE EARS OF THE PEOPLE, AND LET THEM ASK EVERY MAN OF HIS NEIGHBOR, AND EVERY WOMAN OF HER NEIGHBOR, JEWELS OF SILVER, AND JEWELS OF GOLD. (3) AND JE-HO-VAH GAVE THE PEOLE FAVOR IN THE SIGHT OF THE E-GYP-TIANS. MOREOVER THE MAN MO-SES WAS VERY GREAT IN THE LAND OF E-GYPT, IN THE SIGHT OF PHA-RAOH'S SERVANTS, AND IN THE SIGHT OF THE PEOPLE. (4) And Mo-ses said, Thus saith Je-ho-vah, About midnight will I go out into the midst of E-gypt: (5) and all the first-born in the land of E-gypt shall die, from the first-born of Pha-raoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the first-born of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all t...