15But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.
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Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, and my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.
While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-15)Pharaoh is here first threatened and then plagued with frogs, as afterwards, in this chapter, with lice and flies, little despicable inconsiderable animals, and yet by their vast numbers rendered sore plagues to the Egyptians. God could have plagued them with lions, or bears, or wolves, or with vultures or other birds of prey; but he chose to do it by these contemptible instruments. 1. That he mig…
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