But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go.
A swarm obedient to God's word, locusts at a call, an army more fearsome than horse and foot. Yet mark what follows: when God pleases, He can strip bare what He has given, force men from their possessions, and bid contemptible insects plunder the bread from their mouths. Labor not for what locusts devour, but for meat that endures to eternal life.
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Commenting on Exodus 10:12-20
And the Lord said unto Moses,.... About the eleventh day of the month Abib: stretch out thine hand toward heaven; where the luminaries are, and from whence light comes: that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt; that is, what caused it, the gross vapours and thick fogs; for otherwise darkness itself, being a privation of light...
Moses prayed, and the Lord turned the wind into a violent west wind that hurled the locusts into the Red Sea. No force on earth could withstand it; the locusts perished in the waters. Thus did God display His long-suffering and His power to a king already hardened in refusal.
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Commenting on Exodus 10:18-20