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John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 10:9

Moses said, we will go with our young and with our old ,.... The latter were necessary to guide, direct, and instruct in the business of sacrifice, and to perform it as heads of their respective families; and the former were to be present, that they might be trained up and inured to such religious services: with our sons and with our daughters ; as with persons of every age, so of every sex, who had all a concern herein, especially as it was a solemn feast, which all were to partake of: ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 10:10

And he said unto them, let the Lord be so with you, as I will let you go, and your little ones ,.... Either as mocking them, let the Lord you talk of be with you if he will, and let him deliver you if he can, as I shall let you go with your children, which I never will; or as wishing them ill, that the Lord their God may be with them, as he should dismiss them on their proposal, that is, not at all; he wishes they might never have the presence of the Lord, or receive any from him, till he... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 10:11

Not so ,.... You shall not go with your children as you propose: go now ye that are men, and serve the Lord, for that you did desire ; suggesting that that was all they first required, that their men should, go three days into the wilderness, and sacrifice unto the Lord; whereas the demand was, let my people go, Exodus 5:1 which were not the men only, but the women and children also, and all were concerned in the service of God, and in keeping a feast to him: and they were driven... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 10:12

And the Lord said unto Moses, stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt ,.... First one way, and then another, towards every quarter, and every part of the land, to signify that the following plague would come upon the whole land: for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt ; the stretching out of his hand was to be the signal to them to come up and spread themselves over the land, which was brought about by the mighty power of God; for otherwise there was no such... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 10:13

And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt ,.... His hand, with his rod in it: and the Lord brought an east wind upon the land , all that day and all that night; all that day after he had been driven from Pharaoh, and after he had stretched out his hand with his rod in it over Egypt, which was the seventh of the month Abib, and all the night following. This Jehovah did, who holds the winds in his fist, and brings them out of his treasures, whose will they obey, and whose... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 10:14

And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt ,.... Being raised up by the wind in the places where they were generated, they flew and spread themselves all over the land, being in a wonderful manner produced and multiplied by the power of God: and rested in all the coasts of Egypt ; in every part of it where the Egyptians dwelt, and where there were meadows, pastures, fields, gardens, orchards; here they lighted and fed, excepting the land of Goshen, where Israel dwelt, which must... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 10:15

For they covered the face of the whole earth ,.... Of the whole land of Egypt; and this seems to be the instance in which these locusts differed from all others, that had been or would be, even in their numbers; for though there might have been before, and have been since, such vast numbers of them together as to darken the air and the sun, and by lighting first on one spot, and then on another, have destroyed whole countries; yet never was such an instance known as this, as that they should... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 10:1

Hardened his heart - God suffered his natural obstinacy to prevail, that he might have farther opportunities of showing forth his eternal power and Godhead. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 10:2

That thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son - That the miracles wrought at this time might be a record for the instruction of the latest posterity, that Jehovah alone, the God of the Hebrews, was the sole Maker, Governor, and Supporter of the heavens and the earth. Thus we find God so did his marvelous works, that they might be had in everlasting remembrance. It was not to crush the poor worm, Pharaoh, that he wrought such mighty wonders, but to convince his enemies, to the end of the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 10:3

How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself - Had it been impossible for Pharaoh, in all the preceding plagues, to have humbled himself and repented can we suppose that God could have addressed him in such language as the preceding? We may rest assured that there was always a time in which he might have relented, and that it was because he hardened his heart at such times that God is said to harden him, i.e., to give him up to his own stubborn and obstinate heart; in consequence of which he... read more

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