20He that feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses:
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Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.
A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.
By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not,(let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains: …
So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. …
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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