Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 9:14-15
Exodus 9:14-15. I will at this time send all my plagues Either these verses relate to what was to happen some time afterward, namely, the slaying of the firstborn, or the latter verse is to be read as follows, a translation which is equally agreeable to the Hebrew: “For now I had stretched out my hand, to smite thee and thy people with pestilence, and thou hadst been cut off, &c., but that thou wast preserved” (as follows in the succeeding verse) “that it might be known that there is... read more
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 9:12
Exodus 9:12. And the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart Before he had hardened his own heart, and resisted the grace of God; and now God justly gave him up to his own heart’s lusts, to strong delusions, permitting Satan to blind and harden him. Wilful hardness is generally punished with judicial hardness. Let us dread this as the sorest judgment a man can be under on this side hell. read more