Exodus 7:4

_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 with which the country was about to be scourged would fully demonstrate the supremacy of Israel's God. It is a very partial and incomplete view of the momentous transactions which were enacted on the field of Zoan to consider them as designed to accomplish the deliverance of the Israelites from Egyptian bondage. That certainly was one part of the plan. But a far higher and more enlarged purpose was contemplated by those miraculous occurances-namely, that of opposing and destroying the power and influence of Egyptian idolatry. The contest was not so much with the monarch himself as with the idols...

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

BUT PHARAOH SHALL NOT HEARKEN UNTO YOU,.... Regard not what they said, nor answer the demand they made, or obey the command of God delivered by them to him: this the Lord apprised them of, that they might not be discouraged, and conclude their labour would be in vain, their attempts fruitless, and they should never gain their point, but spend their time, and expose themselves to danger to no purpose: THAT I MAY LAY MINE HAND UPON EGYPT; the inhabitants of Egypt, smiting them with one plague after another, and particularly with the last, slaying their firstborn; every plague was a stroke of his hand, and an effect of his mighty power and vengeance, and more especially that: AND BRING FORTH MINE ARMIES; the children of Israel consisting of 600,000 men, besides women and children, Exodus 12:37 which, divided into twelve tribes, made twelve fine armies, 50,

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

ARMIES. hosts. AND. No "and" required....

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

PHARAOH SHALL NOT HEARKEN UNTO YOU, THAT I MAY LAY. — Heb., _Pharaoh will not hearken unto you, and I will lay._ No relation of effect and cause is here asserted as existing between the two clauses, which are co-ordinate. MINE ARMIES, AND MY PEOPLE. Rather, _my armies, my people._ The two expressions are in apposition — the second exegetical of the first. GREAT JUDGMENTS. — See the comment on Exodus 6:6....