17As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him?
For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty. …
Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-21)Here is, I. A general declaration of the wrath of God against Pharaoh for his obstinacy. Though God has hardened his heart (Exod. 9:12), yet Moses must repeat his applications to him; God suspends his grace and yet demands obedience, to punish him for requiring bricks of the children of Israel when he denied them straw. God would likewise show forth a pattern of long-suffering, and how he waits to…
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