and they shall fill your houses and the houses of all your servants and of all the Egyptians, as neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen, from the day they came on earth to this day.’” Then he turned and went out from Pharaoh.
God tells me plainly what He means to do: display His power over all creatures and over Satan's kingdom through these plagues, so that what I write will teach the world's end that sin provokes the Lord to jealousy. Pharaoh's refusal to humble himself before God, the God even of despised slaves, is the very sin that justly calls down His judgment on princes.
AI summary
Commenting on Exodus 10:1-11
They shall fill thy houses,.... The king's palace and all the offices of it: and the houses of thy servants; the palaces of his nobles and courtiers: and the houses of all the Egyptians; of all the common people, not only in the metropolis, but in all the cities and towns in the kingdom; and so Dr.
They shall fill thy houses - Dr. Shaw mentions this circumstance; "they entered," says he, "Into our very houses and bed-chambers, like so many thieves." - Ibid. p. 187.