It was not only an infliction on the land; it was not only a deep pain and anguish to the natives, and this with increasing intensity; but it was a solemn contest between Jehovah and the gods of Egypt. MOSES WARNS *PHARAOH AGAI The fifth plague (Exodus 9:1-7) was a very heavy pestilence which at Moses' word fell the next day on the cattle of Egypt, not on those of Israel. At the same time all were so distinctly according to His word, and fell one after another with such alarming frequency and tremendous force on them, that they confessed the hand of God. A formidable army of horse and foot might more easily have been resisted than this host of insects. You can also change some of your preferences. PDF International Bible Lessons Commentary Exodus 12:1-14 "And Jehovah said unto Moses, Stretch out thy hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, they they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left. Exodus Chapter 1. Such was exactly the state of things in the land of Egypt. CHAPTER 10 THE EIGHTH AND NINTH PLAGUES As a testimony of the greatness of God to Israel (Exodus 15:11, Deuteronomy 4:34). If this furnish the direct reason why there could be no such fulfilment, the moral hindrances from the state of Israel from man fallen were quite as real, though necessarily indirect. Even rationalism does not in every case venture to deny the supernatural character of the phenomena related in Exodus 7:1-25; Exodus 8:1-32; Exodus 9:1-35; Exodus 10:1-29; Exodus 11:1-10; Exodus 12:1-51. 20, 21, the small number of priests for their work, they are imaginary and prove great inattention to the facts in Scripture. It is interesting that Jethro is referred to as Moses' father-in-law more than by his given name. The period immediately succeeding war was likely to be a period of very rapid increase." Thus we are made to be the Lord's freemen; and what should do it if Christ's redemption could not? Exodus 10:12-19 NASB - Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch - Bible [Note: On the tremendously destructive power of locusts, see Davis, pp. Here the temple on mount Zion seems to be meant. By proceeding, you consent to our cookie usage. 16 Pharaoh sueth to Moses. Can there be more absurd trifling than the sentence thatExodus 15:1-27; Exodus 15:1-27 ("the poem as we now have it", is Elohistic as contrasted with Exodus 14:1-31? And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence ( Exodus 10:8-11 ). As the same name could not be given twice, both must have grown out of one. If we had not the two facts, resembling each other on the surface but contrasted in principle, neither the believer could have had so profound a lesson, nor the rationalist have so fully displayed to his shame his ignorance of God. "We shall be saved from wrath through him. Each of the plagues to this point have been caused by God's supernatural influence over nature at the command of Moses as a consequence to Pharaoh's refusal to submit. For, as we know, "the Son of man" is not merely the title in which He linked Himself with man here below, but the name of sorrow and suffering, of shame and rejection it is the name undoubtedly of glory, and this of a richer and fuller sort, according to the counsels of God, than anything connected with His place as the Christ, the object of Jewish hope and promise; for it opens the door into His reign for ever and ever over all peoples, tribes and tongues under the whole heaven, nay, as is known, over all the universe of God the Creator. We don't know what sacrifice He's gonna ask us to make until we get there, so we've gotta take everything in order that we might be prepared for whatever God might call upon us to sacrifice unto Him."] . has a direct knowledge of the predestined order of the universe, cannot consult mere mortals. "The king who . The actual wreck of Israelitish hopes is the result both of their assuming legal condition in the first place, and next of their rejection of the grace of God that came in by Jesus Christ our Lord, and was proclaimed by the Spirit sent down from heaven. Not a fact only but a type, still it was a type not of an earthly woe but of a judgment before the eyes of God judgment of sin. But there is another lesson also. _Since Pharaoh was not induced to 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 . . Please see our Privacy Policy for cookie usage details. THE PLAGUES OF LOCUSTS AND OF DARKNESS There is nothing more dangerous in the things of God. ", "According toExodus 6:2; Exodus 6:2, etc., Moses received his divine commission to deliver the people out of bondage in Egypt. Now if you want to make your commitment to the Lord and you want to live a life of dedication to God, that's all right for you if you're gonna do it. God will "pass over" those houses with blood-smeared entrances, delivering them from the "plague.". * They belonged to God henceforth after a special sort as the consequence of deliverance from Egypt. They were particularly suited in the wisdom of God to humble Egypt. In fact it is one of the blessed features of the word of God that we can never assume to possess an exhaustive view of scripture. Not a word implies that the feast was instituted in Succoth, the mention of which is severed by three important verses (17-19) from the close of all that refers to the feast. THE EIGHTH PLAGUE. The self-same principle applies to hundreds of passages in the Scriptures; and therefore it seemed well to make a few remarks in a more general shape. The locusts come ( v. 12-15 ). All the promises in Him are Yea, and in Him Amen, unto the glory of God by us. For whilst Moses took the rod, Aaron's rod as Jehovah commanded him, he smote the rock twice with his rod. Some students of Exodus have mistakenly called it the Sea of Reeds. _In the ears of . In the Book of Exodus, Hur is first mentioned as a companion of Moses and Aaron watching the Battle of Rephidim against the Amalekites.He aided Aaron to hold up the hands of Moses when Moses realised that the Israelites prevailed in battle while his hands were raised: "Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side". For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt.". In short, unbelief in the first instance is never the consequence of judicial hardness on God's part. Moses was told by Jehovah to put his hand in his bosom. Of course by many this will scarce be understood. It may be said that it belongs to Him more strictly and personally in the highest sense than any other; for He became the Christ, but He is and will be (as He always was) the Word, the Son, the only begotten Son of the Father. Nothing shows the difference between God's word and the way in which even men of God may handle, or feel it necessary to handle it, more strikingly than this. From the late census made in America, it appears that taking all the states together, they have still continued to double their numbers every twenty-five years; and as the whole population is now so great as not to be materially affected by the emigrations from Europe, and as it is known that, in some of the towns and districts near the sea coast, the progress of population has been comparatively slow, it is evident that in the interior of the country in general the period of doubling from procreation only must have been considerably less than twenty-five years." Thus the hardening is a judicial act on God's part, which comes in after man has proved himself an unbeliever, and has persisted in it. Historical, archeological, and all, just helpful insights. This was the direct activity of God, and the protection of Israel through the plagues confirmed the fact. On the other hand the feast of the Passover did not comprehend in its type the full result of Christ's work in comfort and blessing. And he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you." You can check these in your browser security settings. Moses and they must know it. It is clear that salvation here is not simply that a person is purged from guilt, but the real application of Christ's work in all its fulness; only that we have it not yet for our bodies. It is an equal error to suppose that God hardens a person when He first sends a testimony as to deny that He does harden after His testimony has been refused. Perversity alone could in this see phenomena ordinary in Egypt, let the time or other circumstances be what they might. So Moses and Aaron go in and tell Pharaoh the message of Jehovah; and Pharaoh, with the insolence natural]. Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, None but God could have drawn the picture. (Exodus 4:22) Heads of houses did fall afterwards at the Red Sea with Pharaoh's host; but the ten plagues were in the way of preparatory chastenings, not the figure of so wide and indiscriminate a judgment. We shall find this set out in express terms in a later chapter; but the substance of it seems conveyed on this first occasion when He directs attention to His being the God of promise, coupling consequently the names of the fathers with Himself. 39, 169.]. Its family character appears in the New Testament also. In Exodus 17:1-16 we have not Christ given from above, the bread of God for us while we are in the world, but the rock smitten with Moses' rod when the waters flow abundantly. What an insidious compromise. We must not assume in such points that we have ascertained the whole of the truth, even though we may have got some true elements. writers appear. Exodus 10:13. [The Commentary below is expanded and revised from November 10, 2013] International Bible Lesson Commentary . Smiting was as wrong now as it was right before, and so consequently was the application of Moses' judicial rod. . And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am Jehovah: and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them." signs before him: And that thou mayest tell in the ears of th stretch Exodus 7:19 eat every Exodus 10:4 Exodus 10:5 Exodus 10:12 - Annotated Bible by A.C. 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I will only add, that in Exodus 13:1-22 we find another thing a character stamped on the firstborn brought into connection with the Passover. virtue in the hand or rod of Moses, to have produced so strange It was the unworthy dealing of his brethren which broke up all hope for the present. We are here in the place where we may, alas! This is described in the rest of the chapter. Moses then flees from Egypt, but not so much in fear of Egyptian enmity; against this he might have looked to God to sustain him, no matter what might be the pressure on his spirit. There, in his retirement, he receives from Jethro his daughter a stranger given him to wife, who bears him a son, the name of whom tells whither his heart turns. "And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left.". Does not scripture mean that there is? We may say then, as a prophet did later, that they groaned; but they did not groan to God. "They shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. So they did not leave each other in the best of terms. But not so. 12 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, so that they may come upon the land of Egypt and eat every plant in the land, all that the hail has left.". But then what follows this is not the Sabbath, but conflict with the enemy. The Sovereign Master made them His property: they are a part of that which He purchased to Himself by blood. The wind bloweth where it listeth, as it respects any control of ours; not so as it respects the control of God: he directeth it under the whole heaven. [Note: See Montet, pp. Is not this literally, Because the (or a) hand (is) on the throne of Jah, war (is) from Jehovah with Amalek from generation to generation? Always avoid onesidedness. A. Passover instructions. Without it there is nothing good, righteous, or holy, as far as we are concerned; without it there is no adequate dealing with sin; without it there is no vindication of the majesty of God. the If they would not hearken to these two signs, there was a third which would affect the river. He has perfectly annulled his power, and met all on God's part needful for us; but there is another thought. For we must ever remember that He who showed Himself then as Jehovah was, no doubt, the One whom we know as the Son of God. Now if you want to go and serve your God, if that's in your heart, and you've gotta do it, then do your thing. Indeed the denial of salvation as a present status is part of the current coin of Christendom, and the truth is opposed in one way or another by the parties who otherwise oppose each other. Pharaoh's admission, hereupon, Exodus 10:16; Exodus 10:17. But even Gesenius and Knobel take the word otherwise, and so do Onkelos and Aben Ezra, as Dr. McCaul has shown. All rights reserved. When God convinces men of sin, and humbles them for it, their contempt of God's ministers, and the word of the Lord in their mouths, will certainly come into the account, and lie heavily upon their consciences. They groaned only because of their wretchedness; but there was no looking out to God no counting on His mercy. Then he served as a priestly leader. So Moses and Aaron were called in by the Pharaoh: and he said unto them, [Now he offers another compromise.] for therefore must we take to serve the Lord our God; and we know not with what we must serve the Lord, until we come there. (See Deuteronomy 31:10-13 .) Hur, companion of Moses. Nevertheless let none suppose that this is said in the smallest disrespect of Moses not so, but for our own profit and instruction, and to guard us lest we should enact the same part with even less excuse; for God has set before us the wavering of a servant so faithful for the express purpose of guarding ourselves from the like or other failures. It was not enough to be the almighty shield of the children as of the fathers: no matter what their weakness and exposure in the midst of jealous and hostile and wicked Canaanites, He had been the protector of the wandering patriarchs. Second, he permitted them to leave Egypt but not to go far from it (Exodus 8:28). It is of course as simple as necessary for those who know God, but none the less delightful to find it stated clearly. And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto Jehovah our God, lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword." CONCLUSION: God's terms of reconcilliation are fixed and cannot be It would appear that not even artificial light penetrated the darkness outside. THE *ISRAELITES LEAVE EGYPT They must fight; but victory turns on the one who is pleading for them on the hill. And the Lord said unto Moses, stretch out thine hand over They never were in greater alarm than after they had partaken of the paschal feast; but that alarm was used of God to show the total inability of Israel to cope with the difficulty. It was the last place where man would have looked for refreshing streams. Exodus 10:12 ESV - Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch - Bible Gateway Exodus 14 Commentary | Precept Austin This will be found in the reign of glory that is coming But it is well to direct our attention to the order of the millennial day, foreshown in the regulations made by the legislator for the due administration of justice among the people called to be the display of Jehovah's will in earthly righteousness. 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