Chapter 11:
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 Genesis Leviticus
Exodus 11
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God's last instructions to Moses respecting Pharaoh and
the Egyptians. (1-3) The death of the first-born threatened. (4-10)
Verses 1-3 A
secret revelation was made to Moses while in the presence of Pharaoh, that he
might give warning of the last dreadful judgment, before he went out. This was
the last day of the servitude of Israel; they were about to go away. Their
masters, who had abused them in their work, would have sent them away empty; but
God provided that the labourers should not lose their hire, and ordered them to
demand it now, at their departure, and it was given to them. God will right the
injured, who in humble silence commit their cause to him; and none are losers at
last by patient suffering. The Lord gave them favour in the sight of the
Egyptians, by making it appear how much he favoured them. He also changed the
spirit of the Egyptians toward them, and made them to be pitied of their
oppressors. Those that honour God, he will honour.
Verses 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 went out from Pharaoh in great anger at his
obstinacy; though he was the meekest of the men of the earth. The Scripture has
foretold the unbelief of many who hear the gospel, that it might not be a
surprise or stumbling-block to us,
romans 10:16. Let us
never think the worse of the gospel of Christ for the slights men put upon it.
Pharaoh was hardened, yet he was compelled to abate his stern and haughty
demands, till the Israelites got full freedom. In like manner the people of God
will find that every struggle against their spiritual adversary, made in the
might of Jesus Christ, every attempt to overcome him by the blood of the Lamb,
and every desire to attain increasing likeness and love to that Lamb, will be
rewarded by increasing freedom from the enemy of souls.
Chapter 11:
| Darby
| Geneva
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| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Matthew Henry
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 Genesis Leviticus
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