Exodus 12:12

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 12:1-13

Exodus 12:1-1 Chronicles : P. Rules for the Passover (first set).— On the history of the Passover, see pp. 102f. Most ceremonial rules are dated from Sinai or the land of Moab: so these that follow are noted in Exodus 12:1 as given in Egypt. The first month ( Exodus 12:2) is in J, E, and D Abib, and later ( Nehemiah 2:1) Nisan. As the Quakers dropped the names of the days of the week on account of their pagan origin, so P avoids the Canaanitish or Phœ nician names, using numbers only, as in... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 12:1-36

Exodus 11:1 to Exodus 12:36 . 10° . Death of Egyptian Firstborn; Passover and Mazzoth ( Exodus 11:1-Leviticus : E, Exodus 11:4-Ruth : J, Exodus 11:9 f. R, Exodus 12:1-Proverbs : P, Exodus 12:21-Isaiah : J, Exodus 12:24 P, Exodus 12:25-Daniel : a “ houses” Rd, Exodus 12:27 b J, Exodus 12:28 P, Exodus 12:29-Nahum : J, Exodus 12:35 f. E).— The narrative now reaches its climax in the last plague, which finally breaks the resolution of the Pharaoh, and results in the Exodus of Israel. But the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Exodus 12:12

I will execute judgment; either, 1. By exposing them to shame and contempt, as vain and impotent gods that could not save their worshippers. But that appeared before. Or, 2. By destroying those beasts which they worshipped; and it is not unlikely but those particular beasts, which were their chief idols, as Apis, Mnevis, &c., were first-born, and therefore perished in this plague. Or, 3. By over-throwing their idols, as he afterwards did Dagon. And so some Hebrew writer tells us, that this... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Exodus 12:3-13

CRITICAL NOTES.—Exodus 12:3. The house of their fathers.] More exactly: “a father’s house.” The designation naturally imports “family” in the larger sense of “family of families,” the entire group formed by the union of grown-up sons and daughters with their children under the ancestral roof. Only in the event of this group being too small for a lamb, were mere neighbours to unite.—Exodus 12:6. Whole assembly of the congregation.] Here, at the very outset of Hebrew national history, is an... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Exodus 12:1-51

Chapter 12The Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you ( Exodus 12:1-2 ).Now in a few weeks the Jews are gonna be celebrating New Year's, Rosh Hashana. How come they're celebrating New Year's now, if this month April was to be the first month of the year? Well, they have a religious calendar. Their religious year begins in April. Then they have just the regular year by which... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 12:1-51

Exodus 12:2. The first month of the year. This is called Abib, Exodus 13:4; and Nisan, Esther 3:7. It was before the seventh month, hence the earth is supposed to have been created in September; but now in commemoration of their deliverance from Egypt, the ecclesiastical table which regulated the festivals, was ordered to begin with Abib. Many nations have reckoned their existence from some important era in their history: and in this view it was highly proper for the christian church to... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Exodus 12:12

Exodus 12:12Against all the gods of Egypt I will execute Judgment.The Lord God of godsWhen, in Deuteronomy 10:17, Moses says, “The Lord your God is God of gods,” and when, in Joshua 22:22, the people exclaim, “The Lord God of gods, the Lord God of gods, He knoweth”--what do the words mean? Are there other “gods” than Jehovah? It is likely this inquiry will come up in the mind of almost any student of the Bible when he is reading the account of the ten plagues. The question is hard to discuss;... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Exodus 12:12

Exo 12:12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I [am] the LORD. Ver. 12. And I will smite all the firstborn. ] This crosseth not that in Ezekiel 18:20 , "The son shall not bear the iniquity of his father"; for God never punisheth the innocent, because all are guilty before him. These Egyptians had slain Israel, God’s firstborn. And it is the... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Exodus 12:12

pass: Exodus 12:23, Exodus 11:4, Exodus 11:5, Amos 5:17 will smite: Exodus 12:29, Exodus 12:30, Exodus 11:4-Joshua : against: Numbers 33:4, 1 Samuel 5:3, 1 Samuel 6:5, 1 Chronicles 14:12, Isaiah 19:1, Jeremiah 43:13, Zephaniah 2:11 gods: or, princes, Exodus 21:6, Exodus 22:28, Psalms 82:1, Psalms 82:6, John 10:34, John 10:35 I am the Lord: Exodus 6:2, Isaiah 43:11-Ezra :, Ezekiel 12:16 Reciprocal: Genesis 31:30 - my gods 2 Samuel 7:23 - nations and their gods Psalms 78:51 - smote Psalms... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 12:1-30

THE TEN PLAGUES, Exodus 7:8 to Exodus 12:30. Moses and Aaron now stand before Pharaoh as ministers of judgment, and the conflict opens between Jehovah and the gods of Egypt. The first contest between the messengers of Jehovah and the magicians, or enchanters, who are regarded as the servants of the false gods, given in Exodus 7:8-13, is properly the opening scene of the struggle, and is therefore here included in the section with it. Several general observations on the whole subject are most... read more