Psalms 105:26

ISRAEL DELIVERED FROM EGYPT

"He sent Moses his servant,

And Aaron whom he had chosen.

They set among them his signs,

And wonders in the land of Ham.

He sent darkness and made it dark;

And they rebelled not against his words.

He turned their waters into blood,

And slew their fish.

Their land swarmed with frogs

In the chambers of their kings.

He spake, and there came swarms of flies,

And lice in all their borders.

He gave them hail for rain,

And flaming fire in their land.

He smote their vines also, and their fig-trees,

And brake the trees of their borders.

He spake, and the locust came,

And the grasshopper, and that without number,

And did eat up every herb in the land,

And did eat up the fruit of the ground.

He smote also all the first-born in their land,

The chief of all their strength."

First there is mentioned here the commission of Moses and Aaron for the purposes of the Exodus (Exodus 2-7).

Next, we find the account of the plagues which God visited upon Egypt as the time drew near for His deliverance of Israel from bondage. There were ten of these visitations, but only eight are mentioned in this psalm. "The sequence followed in the psalm Isaiah 9,1, 2,4, 3, -, -, 7,8, and 10."[13] Note that 9 (the darkness) is mentioned first, 5,6 are omitted; and 4,3 change places.

The Genesis sequence is as follows:

Changing water into blood (Exodus 7:20)

The plague of frogs (Exodus 8:6)

The plague of lice (Exodus 8:17)

The plague of flies (Exodus 8:24)

The murrain of cattle (Exodus 9:6)

Plague of boils and blains (Exodus 9:10)

The plague of hail (Exodus 9:22)

The plague of locusts ((Exodus 10:13)

The plague of darkness (Exodus 10:22)

The death of the first-born (Exodus 12:29

"And they rebelled not against his words" (Psalms 105:28). This is a very difficult verse. Certainly it cannot apply to the Egyptians; and the application of it to Moses and Aaron seems contraindicated; so what do we make of it? Frankly, we do not know. "If the `not' in this passage is to stand, it must apply to Moses and Aaron; Professor Cheyne, however, following the Septuagint (LXX) boldly cancels the `not'."[14]

"He smote their vines and their fig-trees" (Psalms 105:33). "The skeptical objection that there were no vines in Egypt has long ago been given up."[15]