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John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Exodus
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 275,869 words · 607 reading sections
Exodus 7:14
Exodus 7:14 Ver. 14. And the Lord said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart is hardened,.... Or "heavy" {c}, dull and stupid, stiff and inflexible, cannot lift up his heart, or find in his heart to obey the will of God: he refuseth to let the people go; which was an instance and proof of the hardness and heaviness of his hear…
88 wordsSECTION 122Exodus 7:15
Exodus 7:15 Ver. 15. Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning,.... The next morning, a time in which the mind is most composed and sedate, and fit to attend to what may be suggested: lo, he goeth out unto the water; the river Nile, either to take his morning's walk, and to refresh himself at the waterside, as the Jerusal…
403 wordsSECTION 123Exodus 7:16
Exodus 7:16 Ver. 16. And thou shalt say unto him,.... Upon meeting him: the Lord God of the Hebrews hath sent me unto thee; still appearing in the character of the ambassador of Jehovah, the God of the children of Israel: saying, let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness; the demand is once more ren…
207 wordsSECTION 124Exodus 7:17
Exodus 7:17 Ver. 17. Thus saith the Lord, in this thou shalt know that I am the Lord,.... By the following instance of his power and vengeance: behold, I will smite with the rod that is in my hand; which though in the hand of Moses, Ex 7:18 yet he being his ambassador, and representing him, is said to be in the hand …
124 wordsSECTION 125Exodus 7:18
Exodus 7:18 Ver. 18. And the fish that is in the river shall die,.... Their element being changed, and they not able to live in any other but water: and the river shall stink; with the blood, into which it should be congealed, and with the putrefied bodies of fishes floating in it: and the Egyptians shall loath to d…
156 wordsSECTION 126Exodus 7:19
Exodus 7:19 Ver. 19. And the Lord spake unto Moses,.... Pharaoh still being obstinate, and refusing to let the people go: say unto Aaron, take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt; upon all of them in general, what were in the river Nile, or derived from it, as follows: upon their streams; th…
1,789 wordsSECTION 127Exodus 8:1
Exodus 8:1 INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 8 In this chapter Pharaoh is threatened with the plague of frogs, in case he refused to let Israel go, which accordingly was brought upon him, Ex 8:1 and though the magicians did something similar to it, yet these were so troublesome to Pharaoh, that he promised to let the people go,…
299 wordsSECTION 128Exodus 8:2
Exodus 8:2 Ver. 2. And if thou refuse to let them go,.... Will not obey the orders: I will smite all thy borders with frogs; he gives him warning of the blow before he strikes, which shows his clemency and goodness, his patience and longsuffering; and this he did, not only that he might have time and space for repent…
171 wordsSECTION 129Exodus 8:3
Exodus 8:3 Ver. 3. And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly,.... The river Nile; and though water, and watery places, naturally produce these creatures, yet not in such vast quantities as to cover a whole country, and so large an one as Egypt, and this done at once, immediately; for they were all produced inst…
343 wordsSECTION 130Exodus 8:4
Exodus 8:4 Ver. 4. And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy servants. No doubt by the interposition of divine power and providence, and it may be by the ministry of angels; so that let them use what care, caution, and diligence they would, there was no keeping them out; but they came…
129 wordsSECTION 131Exodus 8:5
Exodus 8:5 Ver. 5. And the Lord spake unto Moses,.... By a secret impulse upon his mind, for he was now in the presence of Pharaoh, who had refused to let Israel go: say unto Aaron, stretch forth thy hand with thy rod; for Aaron carried the rod, and he was the minister of Moses, who was appointed a god to him; and be…
141 wordsSECTION 132Exodus 8:6
Exodus 8:6 Ver. 6. And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt,.... That is, towards the waters of the Nile, and towards all places where any water was; for it was not possible he could stretch out his hand over all the waters that were in every place: and the frogs came and covered the land of Egypt: t…
241 wordsSECTION 133Exodus 8:7
Exodus 8:7 Ver. 7. And the magicians did so with their enchantments, &c] By their secret wiles and juggling tricks: and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt, that is, some few, as a proof of their art and skill, and to show that Moses and Aaron did but what they could do; but what they did either were only in appe…
162 wordsSECTION 134Exodus 8:8
Exodus 8:8 Ver. 8. Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron,.... He sent for them: and said, entreat the Lord, that he may take away the frogs from me and from my people; he begins now to know the Lord, whom he knew not before, by the judgments he executed on him, to acknowledge his hand in those judgments, and tacitl…
304 wordsSECTION 135Exodus 8:9
Exodus 8:9 Ver. 9. And Moses said unto Pharaoh, glory over me,.... If thou canst; take every advantage against me of lessening my glory, and increasing thine own; or vaunt or boast thyself against me, as the phrase is rendered, Jud 7:2 or take this honour and glory to thyself over me, by commanding me, and fixing a ti…
308 wordsSECTION 136Exodus 8:10
Exodus 8:10 Ver. 10. And he said, tomorrow,.... Which according to Bishop Usher was the twenty sixth day of Adar, or February. It may seem strange that Pharaoh, and his people, being so greatly distressed with this plague, should not desire that the Lord would be entreated to do it immediately, and not put it off to a…
215 wordsSECTION 137Exodus 8:11
Exodus 8:11 Ver. 11. And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and from thy servants, and from thy people,.... Signifying there should be a full and clear riddance of them: they shall remain in the river only; the river Nile.…
45 wordsSECTION 138Exodus 8:12
Exodus 8:12 Ver. 12. And Moses and Aaron went from Pharaoh,.... To the place where they used to pray to the Lord, and meet with him, and receive messages from him; this they did the same day the plague was inflicted, the day before the morrow came when the frogs were to be removed: and Moses cried unto the Lord: pray…
250 wordsSECTION 139Exodus 8:13
Exodus 8:13 Ver. 13. And the Lord did according to the word of Moses,.... He heard his prayers, and fulfilled what he had promised Pharaoh: and the frogs died out of the houses, and out of the villages, and out of the fields; the word for "villages" signifies "courts" {b}, and may be so rendered here; and the sense i…
200 wordsSECTION 140Exodus 8:14
Exodus 8:14 Ver. 14. And they gathered them together upon heaps,.... Swept them up, and laid them in heaps out of the way: and the land stank; with the stench of the dead frogs, which was another proof and evidence of the reality of the miracle; and that dead frogs will cause such an ill smell appears from the above …
94 wordsSECTION 141Exodus 8:15
Exodus 8:15 Ver. 15. But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite,.... From his affliction, as the Targum of Jonathan adds; the plague was removed, and he found himself and his people at ease: or there was a "breathing" {c}; before he and his people were so oppressed, that they could scarce breathe, but now being deliv…
143 wordsSECTION 142Exodus 8:16
Exodus 8:16 Ver. 16. And the Lord said unto Moses,.... On the twenty seventh day of the month, according to Bishop Usher, the same day the flogs were removed; no warning is given him of the next plague, at least there is no account of any: say unto Aaron, stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land; in some o…
153 wordsSECTION 143Exodus 8:17
Exodus 8:17 Ver. 17. And they did so,.... As follows: for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod; as directed and ordered: and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man and in beast; which shows it was a miraculous operation, since lice do not usually spring from dust, but thrive in the sweat of bodi…
404 wordsSECTION 144Exodus 8:18
Exodus 8:18 Ver. 18. And the magicians did so with their enchantments, to bring forth lice,.... They made use of their magical art, and juggling tricks they were masters of, to produce the like sort of creatures, or at least to make such appear, or seem to appear, to the eyes of men: but they could not; God would not…
168 wordsSECTION 145Exodus 8:19
Exodus 8:19 Ver. 19. Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, this is the finger of God,.... This is to be ascribed to a power superior to human, to a divine power; so long as they could do something similar, or impose upon the senses of men, and make them believe they did the like, they would not acknowledge divine omni…
313 wordsSECTION 146Exodus 8:20
Exodus 8:20 Ver. 20. And the Lord said unto Moses, rise up early in the morning,.... Of the day following, the twenty eight of Adar, or February, according to Bishop Usher; this was the fittest time to meet with Pharaoh, and the most likely to make impressions on him: and stand before Pharaoh: meet him as he comes al…
2,514 wordsSECTION 147Exodus 9:1
Exodus 9:1 INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 9 This chapter relates the plague of murrain upon the cattle, and which yet was not upon the cattle of the Israelites, Ex 9:1 and the plague of boils and blains on man and beast, Ex 9:8 and Pharaoh's heart being hardened, Moses is sent to him with a message from the Lord, threatening…
360 wordsSECTION 148Exodus 9:2
Exodus 9:2 Ver. 2. For if thou refuse to let them go,.... Continue to refuse, as he had done: and wilt hold them still; in the land, and under his dominion and oppression.…
34 wordsSECTION 149Exodus 9:3
Exodus 9:3 Ver. 3. Behold, the hand of the Lord,.... Which was stronger than his, with which he held the Israelites: is upon thy cattle which is in the field: this takes in all in general, of which the particulars follow, though limited to such as were in the field, and so did not take in what were at home in their o…
218 wordsSECTION 150Exodus 9:4
Exodus 9:4 Ver. 4. And the Lord shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt,.... Make such a difference and distinction between them, that the murrain should not be on the one, when it was on the other, and which was a very marvellous thing; and especially in the land of Goshen, where the Egyptian…
146 wordsSECTION 151Exodus 9:5
Exodus 9:5 Ver. 5. And the Lord appointed a set time,.... For the coming of this plague, that it might plainly appear it came from him, and was not owing to any natural cause: saying, tomorrow the Lord shall do this thing in the land; thus giving him time and space, as he had often done before, to consider the matter…
84 wordsSECTION 152Exodus 9:6
Exodus 9:6 Ver. 6. And the Lord did that thing on the morrow,.... Brought a murrain, or a pestilential disease on the cattle. This, according to Bishop Usher, was on the second day of the seventh month, which afterwards became the first month, the month Abib, which answers to part of March and part of April, and seems…
175 wordsSECTION 153Exodus 9:7
Exodus 9:7 Ver. 7. And Pharaoh sent,.... Messengers to the land of Goshen, to see whether the murrain was upon the cattle of Israel or not, and whether any of them died or not. The Targum of Jonathan is, "he sent to Pelusium to see'' and inquire about this matter; that is, to Raamses, for so that paraphrase calls Ra…
289 wordsSECTION 154Exodus 9:8
Exodus 9:8 Ver. 8. And the Lord said unto Moses and unto Aaron,.... This very probably was the day following, on the third day of the month Abib, about the eighteenth of March, that orders were given to bring on the following plague: take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace; either in which the bricks were burnt,…
284 wordsSECTION 155Exodus 9:9
Exodus 9:9 Ver. 9. And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt,.... Which ashes, thrown up into the air, should be so multiplied and spread as to be over all the land of Egypt, and come down like showers of snow or sleet everywhere, only of a hot and scalding nature; or these handfuls of ashes were to be c…
204 wordsSECTION 156Exodus 9:10
Exodus 9:10 Ver. 10. And they took ashes of the furnace,.... Which was near at hand, perhaps in Pharaoh's kitchen: and stood before Pharaoh; not in his palace, or in any covered room, but in some place open to the heaven, a courtyard or garden adjoining to the palace: and Moses sprinkled it up towards heaven; cast it…
195 wordsSECTION 157Exodus 9:11
Exodus 9:11 Ver. 11. And the magicians could not stand before Moses, because of the boils,.... Which were on them as on others, and which with all their art and skill they could not keep off; and which were so sore upon them, and painful to them, that they were obliged to withdraw, and could not stand their ground, co…
204 wordsSECTION 158Exodus 9:12
Exodus 9:12 Ver. 12. And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh,.... He having often, and so long hardened his own heart, God gave him up to judicial hardness of heart, to his own corruptions, the temptations of Satan, and the lying magicians about him, to make an ill use of everything that offered to him, and put a w…
137 wordsSECTION 159Exodus 9:13
Exodus 9:13 Ver. 13. And the Lord said unto Moses, rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh,.... Who it seems used to rise early in the morning, and so was a fit time to meet with him, and converse with him; it might be one of the mornings in which he used to go to the water early, though not mentioned, …
112 wordsSECTION 160Exodus 9:14
Exodus 9:14 Ver. 14. For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart,.... Not meaning particularly the plague of the hail, which next follows, so called, because it consisted of various things, as hail, rain, lightning, and thunder, as Aben Ezra, and who observes, that Pharaoh was more terrified with this…
208 wordsSECTION 161Exodus 9:15
Exodus 9:15 Ver. 15. For now will I stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence,.... Which yet we never find was done; for though this by many is referred to the slaying of the firstborn, yet it is not certain that this was done by the pestilence: besides, Pharaoh was not then smitten, no…
238 wordsSECTION 162Exodus 9:16
Exodus 9:16 Ver. 16. And in very deed, for this cause have I raised thee up,.... Or but truly or verily {c}; instead of smiting thee with the pestilence, and cutting thee off out of the land of the living, "I have raised thee up"; made thee to stand {d}, to continue in being; I have preserved thine from perishing by t…
224 wordsSECTION 163Exodus 9:17
Exodus 9:17 Ver. 17. As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go?] And so against God himself, disobeying his commands, despising his messengers, and slighting his miracles, and hardening his heart against him, and refusing to let Israel go, after all; thereby showing the most intole…
114 wordsSECTION 164Exodus 9:18
Exodus 9:18 Ver. 18. Behold, tomorrow about this time,.... It was now the fourth day of the month Abib, and the fifth when the following was inflicted: I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail; which should fall very thick, and the hailstones be very numerous and heavy, and the storm last long: such as hath not …
286 wordsSECTION 165Exodus 9:19
Exodus 9:19 Ver. 19. Send therefore now, and gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field,.... The servants that were at work there: this is said to denote both the certainty of the plague, and the terribleness of it, that all, both men and beast, would perish by it, if care was not taken to get them home; a…
3,175 wordsSECTION 166Exodus 10:1
Exodus 10:1 INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 10 This chapter is introduced with giving the reasons why the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, Ex 10:1. Moses and Aaron go in to him, and once more demanded in the name of the Lord the dismission of the people of Israel, and in case of refusal, threatened him with locusts being s…
481 wordsSECTION 167Exodus 10:2
Exodus 10:2 Ver. 2. And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son,.... Not of his sons and grandsons only; for Moses here, as Aben Ezra observes, was in the stead of Israel; and the sense is, that it should be told to their posterity in all succeeding ages: what things I have wrought in Egypt…
122 wordsSECTION 168Exodus 10:3
Exodus 10:3 Ver. 3. And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh,.... As the Lord commanded them, for what is before said to Moses was designed for Aaron also, his prophet and spokesman: and said unto him, thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews; as the ambassadors of the God of Israel, and in his name said: how long wil…
151 wordsSECTION 169Exodus 10:4
Exodus 10:4 Ver. 4. Else, if thou refuse to let my people go,.... He threatens him with the following plague, the plague of the locusts, which Pliny {x} calls "denrum irae pestis": behold, tomorrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast; according to Bishop Usher {y} this was about the seventh day of the month Abib,…
156 wordsSECTION 170Exodus 10:5
Exodus 10:5 Ver. 5. And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth,.... Or, "cover the eye of the earth" {z}; either the appearance and colour of the earth, so as they could not be discerned for the multitude of the locusts on it; so the word is used in Nu 11:7 or the eye of man l…
331 wordsSECTION 171Exodus 10:6
Exodus 10:6 Ver. 6. They shall fill thy houses,.... The king's palace and all the offices of it: and the houses of thy servants; the palaces of his nobles and courtiers: and the houses of all the Egyptians; of all the common people, not only in the metropolis, but in all the cities and towns in the kingdom; and so D…
435 wordsSECTION 172Exodus 10:7
Exodus 10:7 Ver. 7. And Pharaoh's servants said to him,.... His courtiers and counsellors, such of them as were not so hardened as others, or however now began to relent, and dreaded what would be the consequence of things, even the ruin of the whole country, the good of which they seem to have had at heart: how long…
290 wordsSECTION 173Exodus 10:8
Exodus 10:8 Ver. 8. And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh,.... Upon this motion of his ministers, messengers were sent to bring them in again: and he said, go, serve the Lord your God; as you have often desired: but who are they that shall go? or, "who and who" {f}? for Pharaoh was unwilling that they …
136 wordsSECTION 174Exodus 10:9
Exodus 10:9 Ver. 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 s…
179 wordsSECTION 175Exodus 10:10
Exodus 10:10 Ver. 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, tha…
238 wordsSECTION 176Exodus 10:11
Exodus 10:11 Ver. 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, …
111 wordsSECTION 177Exodus 10:12
Exodus 10:12 Ver. 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;…
162 wordsSECTION 178Exodus 10:13
Exodus 10:13 Ver. 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,…
499 wordsSECTION 179Exodus 10:14
Exodus 10:14 Ver. 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 p…
3,918 wordsSECTION 180Exodus 11:1
Exodus 11:1 INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 11 Moses having an intimation from the Lord that one plague more would be brought on Pharaoh, and then he would let Israel go, when they should borrow of their neighbours jewels of gold and silver, the people being in great favour with the Egyptians, Ex 11:1, he declares to Pharaoh,…
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Public domain; John Gill (1697–1771). Source item is marked Public Domain on Internet Archive.
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Historical Christian writing; not Scripture.