1And the LORD said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do. …
I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; …
See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)Here, I. God encourages Moses to go to Pharaoh, and at last silences all his discouragements. 1. He clothes him with great power and authority (Exod. 7:1): I have made thee a god to Pharaoh ; that is, my representative in this affair, as magistrates are called gods , because they are God’s vicegerents. He was authorized to speak and act in God’s name and stead, and, under the divine direction, was…
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