Exodus 7:2

_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....

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. Moses, as the ambassador of Jehovah, speaking in his name, laid commands upon Pharaoh, denounced threatenings against him, and called for judgments upon him. Pharaoh, proud and great as he was, could not resist. Moses stood not in awe of Pharaoh, but made him tremble. This seems to be meant in the words, Thou shalt be a god unto Pharaoh. At length Moses is delivered from his fears. He makes no more objections, but, being strengthened in faith, goes about his work with courage, and proceeds in it with perseverance....

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 rejection by the people of Israel (Exodus 6:9). He made allowance, and raised his courage and his spirits by fresh promises, and by a call upon him for immediate action. The process of deliverance, God assured him, was just about to begin. Miracles would be wrought until Pharaoh's stubbornness was overcome. He was himself to begin the series at once by casting his rod upon the ground, that it might become a serpent (Exodus 7:9). Fr

THOU SHALT SPEAK ALL THAT I COMMAND THEE,.... That is, to Aaron his prophet, whatever the Lord made known to him in a private manner as his will to be done: AND AARON THY BROTHER SHALL SPEAK UNTO PHARAOH; whatsoever should be told him by Moses, as from the Lord: THAT HE SEND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL OUT OF HIS LAND; this was the principal thing to be insisted upon; and all that was said or done to him was to bring about this end, the dismission of the children of Israel out of Egypt....

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 sign of the rod (Exodus 7:10) Once more Moses received his commission, and again he hesitated on account of his poor speech. After all the gracious words Jehovah had spoken he pleads again his weakness. It shows what the unbelieving heart is. Twice Jehovah said that Moses should be a god. A god to Aaron (4:16) and a god to Pharaoh (7:1). He received divine authority and power over Pharaoh, while he was to his spokesman Aaron a god, because the word he uttered to him to communicate to Pharaoh was the word of

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THOU SHALT SPEAK ALL THAT I COMMAND THEE— That is, thou shalt speak it to Aaron, and Aaron shall speak it to Pharaoh. This explains the former verse....

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; AND AAR-ON THY BROTHER SHALL SPEAK UNTO PHA-RAOH, THAT HE LET THE CHILDREN OF IS-RA-EL GO OUT OF HIS LAND. (3) AND I WILL HARDEN PHA-RAOH'S HEART, AND MULTIPLY MY SIGNS AND MY WONDERS IN THE LAND OF E-GYPT. (4) BUT PHA-RAOH WILL NOT HEARKEN UNTO YOU, AND I WILL LAY MY HAND UPON E-GYPT, AND BRING FORTH MY HOSTS, MY PEOPLE THE CHILDREN OF IS-RA-EL, OUT OF THE LAND OF E-GYPT BY GREAT JUDGMENTS. (5) AND THE E-GYP-TIANS SHALL KNOW THAT I AM JE-HO-VAH, WHEN I STRETCH FORTH MY HAND UPON E-GYPT, AND BRING OUT THE CHILDREN OF IS-RA-EL FROM AMONG THEM. (6) AND MO-SES AND AAR-ON DID SO; AS JE-HO-VAH COMMANDED THEM, SO DID THEY. (7) AND MO-SES WAS FOURSCORE YEARS OLD, AND AAR-ON FOURSCORE AND THREE YEARS...

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 this they may foretell His judgments and predict the future; but prediction is a secondary feature of prophecy, and is not contained in the original and proper sense of the word in which it is used here, where Aaron is called the prophet or mouthpiece of Moses. To prophesy sometimes means to declare God's praise in song. Thus Miriam is called a prophetess in Exodus 15:20, Eldad and Medad are said to have prophesied in Numbers 11:25 (see note there), Deborah was a prophetess ...

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, will speak on your behalf. He will speak exactly as a *prophet speaks to the people on my behalf. You *represent me in front of *Pharaoh and Aaron will speak on your behalf. V2 You must say everything to Aaron that I order you to say. Then your brother, Aaron, must tell my message to *Pharaoh. *Pharaoh must let the *Israelites go away from his country. V3 But I will make *Pharaoh continue to refuse this request. I will increase my wonderful acts and my terrible *signs in Egypt. V4 But *Pharaoh will not listen to you. So I will use my great power against him. I will do