Exo 12:29-30, Num 14:12, 16:46-49, Psa 78:50-51, Nah 1:2-3 | TSK | STEP | at midnight. the Lord smote.The infliction of this judgment on the Egyptians was most equitable; because, after their nation had been preserved by one of the Israelitish family, they had, contrary to all right, and in defiance of original stipulation, enslaved the people to whom they had been so much indebted, had murdered their offspring, and made their bondage intolerable. See Bryant, p. 160. the first-born of Pharaoh. dungeon. Heb. house of the pit.

Exodus 12:29-30

at midnight.

the Lord smote.The infliction of this judgment on the Egyptians was most equitable; because, after their nation had been preserved by one of the Israelitish family, they had, contrary to all right, and in defiance of original stipulation, enslaved the people to whom they had been so much indebted, had murdered their offspring, and made their bondage intolerable. See Bryant, p. 160.

Nu 3:13; 8:17; 33:4; Ps 78:51; 105:36; 135:8; 136:10; Heb 11:28

Heb 12:23

the first-born of Pharaoh.

4:23; 11:5

dungeon. Heb. house of the pit.

Isa 24:22; 51:14; Jer 38:6,13; Zec 9:11

and there was a great cry.No people were more remarkable and frantic in their mournings than the Egyptians. When a relative died, every one left the house, and the women, with their hair loose, and their bosoms bare, ran wild about the street. The men also, with their apparel equally disordered, kept them company; all shrieking, howling, and beating themselves. What a scene of horror and distress must now have presented itself, when there was not a family in Egypt where there was not one dead!

11:6; Pr 21:13; Am 5:17; Mt 25:6; Jas 2:13

Numbers 14:12

smite.

16:46-49; 25:9; Ex 5:3; 2Sa 24:1,12-15

will make.

Ex 32:10

Numbers 16:46-49

from off.

Le 9:24; 10:1; 16:12,13; Isa 6:6,7; Ro 5:9,10; Heb 7:25-27; 9:25,26

Re 8:3-5

and put.

Ps 141:2; Mal 1:11

an atonement.

Ex 30:7-10; Le 16:11-16; 1Jo 2:1,2

there is wrath.

1:53; 8:19; 11:33; 18:5; Le 10:6; 1Ch 27:24; Ps 106:29

the plague is begun.God now punished them by a secret blast, so as to put the matter beyond dispute; His hand, and His alone, was seen, not only in the plague, but in the manner in which the mortality was arrested. It was necessary that it should be done in this way, that the whole congregation might see that these men who had perished were not "the people of the Lord," and that God, not Moses and Aaron, had destroyed them.

and ran.

Mt 5:44; Ro 12:21

and behold.

Ps 106:29

and he put.

46; De 33:10,11; Isa 53:10-12 What the plague was we know not; but it seems from this to have begun at one part of the camp, and to have proceeded regularly onward.

18,35; 25:8-11; 2Sa 24:16,17,25; 1Ch 21:26,27; 1Th 1:10

1Ti 2:5,6; Heb 7:24,25; Jas 5:16; Joh 5:14

fourteen thousand.

32-35; 25:9; 1Ch 21:14; Heb 2:1-3; 10:28,29; 12:25