2And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand.
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?
In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-2)Moses and Aaron, having delivered their message to the elders of Israel, with whom they found good acceptance, are now to deal with Pharaoh, to whom they come in peril of their lives— Moses particularly, who perhaps was out-lawed for killing the Egyptian forty years before, so that if any of the old courtiers should happen to remember that against him now it might cost him his head. Their message…
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