. 13» 8 And Moſes and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh 2 and he ſaid unto them, Go ſerve the LORD your God : but F whoare they that ſhall go? _
9 And Moſes ſaid, We will go with our young, and with eur old, with our ſons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go: for we wuft hold afeaſt unto the LORDee.
e A Feaſt upon a Sacrifice, whereinallare concerned, and there« fore all muſt be preſent and ready to do-what God requires us.
10 Andhe faid unto them, Let the LOKD be fo with you, as I will let you go f, and your little ones, Look toit ; for evil is before you g. |
f I wiſh God may be no more ready and willing to be with you and to do you good, than TI am wiiling to let you go. g Either
they may ſerve
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up Sedition or War againſt me, or utterly to depart out of my Kingdom. Or rather 2. Evil of Calamity or Miſchief. r. Becauſe it 1s here ſaid to be before their Faces, whereas evil deſigns are in mens hearts, and the fair pretences wherewith they cover them are ſaid to be before their Faces. 2. The word of Caution he'gives to them, look z0it, or take heed, ſeems to imply that he ſpeaks not of the Evil they deſigned againſt Pharaoh,but of that which they would unavoidably bring upon themſelves from ſo Potent a King, by the refuſal of ſuch fair Offers, and continuing in ſuch infoleat and unreaſonable demands,
11 Notſo: po now ye that are men and ſerve the
LORD, for that ye did deſire | : and they were driven
ous from Pharaohs preſence: tf Which was not true, but only was gathered by him out of their declared Intention of going to Sacrifice, wherein he
ſary
12 4 Andthe LORD aid unto Moſes, Stretch out
34 Aud when Pharaoh ſaw that the rain, and the
Ly
thine hand oyeg the land of Egypt for the locults, that N they
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would he let the children of Iſrael go, as the LORD
had ſpoken + by Moſes. | | CHAP. X
The reaſon why God haraned Pharaoh's heart, 1. Egypt threatned with lo«
4: Pharaoh's ſervants perſwade him to let the Iſraelites go, 7.-
Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuſe to humble thy *
r. Evil of Sin. You have ſome ill deſign againſt me, either to ſtir
thought thepreſence of the Women and Children wholly unnecef- *
®
+ Heb. the ; Moſes. ©
* Chap. 2 Te» anc I4.
78. $5. :
Xx Wid. I6. 9.
+ Heb. * Joel,
Heb. wh and who, &C,
s. and D5o 34,
+ Heb. faſtned.
20,
* 2 3A
018 May feel dark neſs,
Pre” FJ X, ap. X.
. 78.
| He - * haſtned to 1 all. ;
F Joel 2.
Chap.4.
+Heb.that
muy 7 7? ?
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they may com? up upon the land of Egypt,and eatevery herb of the land 5, even all that the hall hath left.
þ This is no unuſual Plague in Africa and Arabia, where when the Harveſt is ripe, they frequently come in valit numbers, upon all their Corn, and what they do not eat, they infe& with theit touch, and the moiſture coming from them, and afterwards dying io great numbers, they poiſon the Air, and cauſe a Peſtilence. So that it is no wonder that Pharaoh and his Servants were ſo concern- ed for this Plague. { well known to them, eſpecially confidering, that this was like to be far worſe than all of the ſame kind, which they hadeither ſeen or heard of. .
13 And Moſes ſtretched forth his rod overthe land
of Egypt, and the LORD brought an eaft-wind & upon the land all that day and all that night, and when 1t
was morning, the eaſt-wind brougiit the locuſts.
; Over divÞrg parts of the Land, ſhaking his rod towards the ſe- veral Quarters of it. & Which in thoſe Parts is a moſt violent and pernicious Wind, Exod: 14. 21. Numb: 11: 31, and ad'y W ind, and therefore fit for the ingendring of thoſe Creatures. This Wind brought them from Arabia, where they are in great numbers,as we have ſeen verſe 12. though God miraculouſly increaſed their num- bers, and their power of doing miſchicf
14 And * he locuſts went up over all the land of E-
gypt, and reſted in all the coaits of Egypt : very grie- vous were they : before them there were no {uch locults
as they, neither after them ſhall be ſuch +. |
+ Queſt. 'How can this be true, when the ſame words are uſed of the Locuſts in Joe!'s time ? Anſw. It might be true of both indi- vers reſpe&s ; oftheſe for number and quality, of them fo: long continuance, for they laſted three or four years, when theſe were bur'for a little time; of theſe for Ezypr, of them for Juder, where | they were fixed.
H For they covered the face of the whole earth, ſo
thatthe land was darkned /, and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the -trees which the | hail had left 7, and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through alt
the land of Egypt. :
1 Either by their flying in vaſt numbers, and ſo darkning the Air, as they have oft-times done; or by covering the green and Iight- ſome He bs and ProduGtions of the Earth with their dark and dire- ful Bodies. m How could this be, when the Hay] had ſmizter every herb, and broken everytree ? Chap: 9: 25. Anſ. 1. There ſeems to have been ſome diſtance of time bexween theſe two Plagues, in which ſpace, new ProduCions might be ſprouting forth both our of the Erownd, and from the Trees. _ The words all and every aie com-
- monly underitood of the greateſt part. up4 T Then Pharaoh + called for Moſes and Aaron
n haſte »:and he ſaid, 1 have ſinned againit the LORD
your God, and againft you 0. ;
nz Becauſe this kind of Plague in it ſelf ws moſt pernicious, whereby whole Countreys had been waſted, and grievous Famines and Peſtilences cauſed, and was mightily aggravated by the Venge- ance of God,and by the peculiar qualiry of theſe Locuſts, which did not only fall upontheir Herb and Fruits, as they vfe.to do, bur invade their very Houſes, verſe 6. infet their Meats, fill ther Beds, poiſon them with their Stink, and with their venomous Birings,
- whereby they killed many Men, as if is written in the Bouk of
WWiſom, Chap. 16.verſe 19. 0 By contempt of your great and terrible Works, by breach of my Promiſe made\o you, and by my denial of your juſt Deſires and Commands given to mein his Name, whom I now find and feal to be the Almighty and Soveraign God.
17 Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my fin on- ly this once p, and intreat the LORD your God, that
he may take away from me this death 9 only.