Exo 7, Exo 15, Psa 78:11-13, 43-51, 105:27-36 | TSK | STEP | Moses and Aaron are encouraged to go again to Pharaoh. Their age. Aaron's rod is turned into a serpent. The sorcerers do the like; but their rods are swallowed up by Aaron's. Pharaoh's heart is hardened. God's message to Pharaoh. The river is turned into blood; and the consequent distress of the Egyptians. See. a god.

sorcerers.{Mechashshaphim,} probably from the Arabic {kashapha,} to discover, reveal, signifies diviners, or those who pretended to reveal futurity, to discover things lost, or to find hidden treasures.

they also.

22; 8:7,18; De 13:1-3; Mt 24:24; Ga 3:1; Eph 4:14; 2Th 2:9

Re 13:11-15

enchantments.By the word {lahatim,} from {lahat,} to burn, may be meant such incantations as required lustral fires, fumigations, etc.

but Aaron's.

8:18,19; 9:11; Ac 8:9-13; 13:8-11; 19:19,20; 1Jo 4:4

4; 4:21; 8:15; 10:1,20,27; 14:17; De 2:30; Zec 7:11,12; Ro 1:28; 2:5

Heb 3:7,8,13

Pharaoh's.

8:15; 10:1,20,27; Zec 7:12

he refuseth.

4:23; 8:2; 9:2; 10:4; Isa 1:20; Jer 8:5; 9:6; Heb 12:25

he goeth.

2:5; 8:20; Eze 29:3

the rod.

10; 4:2-4

The Lord.

3:18; 5:3; 9:1,13; 10:3; 1Sa 4:6-9

Let my.

8:1,20; 13:15; 14:5; Isa 45:13; Jer 50:33; Ac 4:21-23

serve.

3:12,18; 5:1-3; 9:1

thou shalt.

5; 5:2; 6:7; 1Sa 17:46,47; 1Ki 20:28; 2Ki 19:19; Ps 9:16; 83:18

Eze 29:9; 30:8,19; 32:15; 38:23; 39:28; Da 4:17,32,37; 5:21,23

and they.

1:22; 4:9; Ps 78:44; 105:29; Re 8:8; 16:3-6

the fish.

Egyptians."The water of Egypt," says Abbé Mascrier, "is so delicious, that one would not wish the heat to be less, or to be delivered from the sensation of thirst. The Turks find it so exquisite, that they excite themselves to drink of it by eating salt." "A person," adds Mr. Harmer, "who never before heard of the deliciousness of the Nile water, and of the large quantities which on that account are drunk of it, will, I am sure, find an energy in those words of Moses to Pharaoh, the Egyptians shall loathe to drink of the water of the river, which he never did before."

shall loathe.

24; Nu 11:20; 21:5

stretch.

8:5,6,16; 9:22,23,33; 10:12,21; 14:21,26

their pools. Heb. gathering of their waters.

Ge 1:10

he lifted.

17:5,6,9-12; Nu 20:8-12

all the waters.As the Nile was held sacred by the Egyptians, as well as the animals it contained, to which they annually sacrificed a girl, or as others say, both a boy and girl, God might have designed this plague as a punishment for such idolatry and cruelty; and to shew them the baseness of those elements which they reverenced, and the insufficiency of the gods in which they trusted. All the punishments brought upon them bore a strict analogy to their crimes.

17,18; Ps 78:44; 105:29; Joh 2:9-11; Re 8:8

18; Re 8:9The first miracle of Christ turned water into wine, the first plague upon Egypt turned all their water into blood.

magicians.

11; 8:7,8; Jer 27:18; 2Ti 3:8

and Pharaoh's.

as the.

neither.

9:21; De 32:46; 1Sa 4:20; *marg:

Job 7:17; Ps 62:10; Pr 22:17; 24:32; *marg:

Pr 29:1; Isa 26:11; Jer 5:3; 36:24; Eze 40:4; Am 4:7-12; Hab 1:5

Mal 2:2

for they.

18-21

8:9,10; 10:23; 2Sa 24:13

Exodus 15

1 The song of Moses, Miriam, and Israel on their deliverance.

22 The people want water in the wilderness.

23 The waters at Marah are bitter, they murmur, Moses prays, and sweetens the waters by God's direction.

27 They encamp at Elim, where are twelve wells, and seventy palm trees.

Then.

Jud 5:1-31; 2Sa 22:1-51; Ps 106:12; 107:8,15,21,22; Isa 12:1-6

Isa 51:10,11; Re 15:3

for.

21; 14:17,18,27; 18:11; Col 2:15

strength.

Ps 18:1,2; 27:1; 28:8; 59:17; 62:6,7; 118:14; Hab 3:17-19; Php 4:13

song.

De 10:21; Ps 22:3; 109:1; 140:7; Re 15:3

my salvation.

14:13; 2Sa 22:51; Ps 68:20; Isa 12:2; 45:17; 49:6; Jer 3:23; Lu 1:77

Lu 2:30; Joh 4:22; Ac 4:12; Re 19:1

my God.

4:22; Ge 17:7; Ps 22:10; Jer 31:33; 32:38; Zec 13:9

an habitation.

40:34; Ge 28:21,22; 2Sa 7:5; 1Ki 8:13,27; Ps 132:5; Isa 66:1

2Co 5:19; Eph 2:22; Col 2:9

my father's God.

3:15,16

exalt him.

2Sa 22:47; Ps 18:46; 30:1; 34:3; 99:5,9; 118:28; 145:1; Isa 25:1

Joh 5:23; Php 2:11; Re 5:9-14

a man.

Ps 24:8; 45:3; Re 19:11-21

name.

3:13,15; 6:3,6; Ps 83:18; Isa 42:8

14:13-28

chosen.

14:7

depths.

14:28; Eze 27:34; Jon 2:2; Mic 7:19; Mt 18:6

they.

Ne 9:11; Jer 51:63,64; Re 18:21

right hand.

11; 1Ch 29:11,12; Ps 17:7; 44:3; 60:5; 74:11; 77:10; 89:8-13

Ps 98:1; 118:15,16; Isa 51:9; 52:10; Mt 6:13

dashed.

Ps 2:9; Isa 30:14; Jer 13:14; Re 2:27

the greatness.

9:16; De 33:26; Ps 68:33; 148:13; Isa 5:16; Jer 10:6

them that.

Isa 37:17,23,29,36,38; Mic 4:11; Na 1:9-12; Zec 2:8; 14:3,8

Ac 9:4

consumed.

Ps 59:13; 83:13; Isa 5:24; 47:14; Na 1:10; Mal 4:1; Mt 3:12

blast.

14:21; 2Sa 22:16; Job 4:9; Isa 11:4; 37:7; 2Th 2:8

the floods.

14:22; Ps 78:13; Hab 3:10

I will pursue.

Ge 49:27; Jud 5:30; 1Ki 19:2; 20:10; Isa 10:8-13; 36:20; 53:12

Hab 3:14; Lu 11:22

destroy. or, repossess.

14:5,9

blow.

14:21; Ge 8:1; Ps 74:13,14; 135:7; 147:18; Isa 11:15; Jer 10:13

Am 4:13; Mt 8:27

the sea.

14:28; De 11:4

they sank.

like unto thee.

De 3:24; 33:26; 1Sa 2:2; 2Sa 7:22; 1Ki 8:23; Ps 35:10; 77:19; 86:8

Ps 89:6-8; Isa 40:18,25; Jer 10:6,16; 49:19

gods. or, mighty ones. glorious.

Le 19:2; Ps 89:18; 145:17; Isa 6:3; 30:11; 57:15; 1Pe 1:15,16

Re 4:8

fearful.

Ps 66:5; 77:14; 89:5,7; 90:11; 119:120; Isa 64:2,3; Jer 10:7

Lu 12:5; Heb 12:28,29; Re 15:4; 19:1-6

stretchedst.

Thou.

Ge 19:16; Eph 2:4

led.

Ps 77:14,15,20; 78:52,53; 80:1; 106:9; Isa 63:12,13; Jer 2:6

guided.

1Pe 1:5

holy.

Ps 78:54

hear.

Nu 14:14; 22:5; De 2:4,5; Jos 2:9,10; 9:24; Ps 48:6

of Palestina.

Isa 14:29,31

dukes.

Ge 36:40; Nu 20:14-21; De 2:4; 1Ch 1:51-54

Moab.

Nu 22:3-5; Hab 3:7

all the.

Jos 2:11; 5:1

melt.

De 20:8; Jos 2:9; *marg:

Jos 14:8; 1Sa 14:16; 2Sa 17:10; Ps 68:2; Isa 13:7; 19:1; Eze 21:7

Na 2:10

dread.

De 2:25; 11:25; Jos 2:9

still.

11:7; 1Sa 2:9; 25:37

which thou.

19:5,6; De 32:6,9; 2Sa 7:23; Ps 74:2; Isa 43:1-3; 51:10; Jer 31:11

Ac 20:28; Tit 2:14; 1Pe 2:9; 2Pe 2:1

plant.

Ps 44:2; 78:54,55; 80:8; Isa 5:1-4; Jer 2:21; 32:41

mountain.

Ps 78:54,68,69; Jer 31:23

Ps 10:16; 29:10; 146:10; Isa 57:15; Da 2:44; 4:3; 7:14,27; Mt 6:13

Re 11:15-17

horse.

14:23; Pr 21:31

brought.

14:28,29; Heb 11:29

prophetess.

Jud 4:4; 1Sa 10:5; 2Ki 22:14; Lu 2:36; Ac 21:9; 1Co 11:5; 14:34

sister.

2:4; Nu 12:1; 20:1; 26:59; Mic 6:4

a timbrel.{Toph,} in Arabic called {duff} or {diff,} and in Spanish {adduffa,} is the {tabret} used in the East; being a thin, broad, wooden hoop, with parchment extended over one side of it, to which small pieces of brass, tin, etc., are attached, which make a jingling noise: it is held up with one hand and beaten upon with the other, and is precisely the same as the tambourine.

all the.

Jud 11:34; 21:21; 1Sa 18:6; 2Sa 6:5,14,16; Ps 68:11,25; 81:2; 149:3

Ps 150:4

answered.

1Sa 18:7; 2Ch 5:13; Ps 24:7-10; 134:1-3

Sing ye.

1; Jud 5:3; Isa 5:1-30; Re 7:10-12; 5:9; 14:3; 15:3; 19:1-6

wilderness of Shur.This lay on the eastern shore of the Heroopolitic gulf of the Red Sea, and is still called the desert of Shur, according to Dr. Shaw.

Ge 16:7; 25:18; 1Sa 15:7

three days.

3:18

Marah.

Nu 33:8

Marah. i.e., bitterness.

Ru 1:20

14:11; 16:2,8,9; 17:3,4; Nu 11:1-6; 14:1-4; 16:11,41; 17:10

Nu 20:2-5; 21:5; 1Co 10:10; Php 2:14; Jude 1:16

What.

17:3; Ps 78:19,20; Mt 6:25

cried.

14:10; 17:4; Ps 50:15; 91:15; 99:6; Jer 15:1

a tree.

2Ki 2:21; 4:41; 1Co 1:18

a statute.

Jos 24:21-25

proved.

16:4; De 8:2,16; 13:3; Jud 2:22; 3:1,4; Ps 66:10; 81:7; Pr 17:3

Jer 9:7; 1Pe 1:6,7

If thou.

Le 26:3,13; De 7:12,13,15; 28:1-15

and wilt.

De 12:28; 13:18; 1Ki 11:33,38; 2Ki 22:2; Eze 18:5

diseases.

9:10,11; 12:29; De 7:15; 28:27,60

for I am.

23:25; 2Ki 20:5; Job 5:18; Ps 41:3,4; 103:3; 147:3; Isa 57:18

Jer 8:22; 33:6; Ho 6:1; Jas 5:11-16

Elim.This was on the northern skirts of the desert of Sin, and, according to Dr. Shaw, two leagues from Tor, and near 30 from Corondel, which he conjectures to be Marah, where there is a small rill, which is brackish. He found but nine of the wells, the other three being filled up with sand; but the 70 palm trees had increased into more than 2,000.

Nu 33:9; Isa 12:3; Eze 47:12; Re 7:17; 22:2

Psalms 78:11-13

7; 106:13,21,22; De 32:18; Jer 2:32

Marvellous.

42-50; 105:27-38; 135:9; Ex 7:1-12:51; De 4:34; 6:22; Ne 9:10

Zoan.Zoan, the ancient capital of the Pharaohs, where Moses wrought so many miracles, is rendered by the Chaldee, {Tanium,} LXX. [Tanis,] Vulgate, {Tanis,} and Coptic, {Tané,} from the Coptic, {ten,} plain, flat, level; being situated in the low ground of the Delta, on one of the eastern branches of the Nile, bearing its own name, near a large lake, now called the lake of Menzala, 44 miles west of Pelusium, and 169 miles east of Alexandria, according to the Antonine Itinerary, and three miles from the Mediterranean, according to the Geograph. Nubiens. Clim. 3, par. 3. There are ruins still remaining to mark the site of Zoan, or Tanis, called San by the Arabs; comprising broken obelisks, capitals of the Corinthian order, a granite monument, etc.

43; Ge 32:3; Nu 13:22; Isa 19:11,13; Eze 30:14

He divided.

66:6; 106:9,10; 136:13-15; Ex 14:1-15:27; Isa 63:13; 1Co 10:2,3

made.

38:7; Jos 3:16; Hab 3:15

Psalms 78:43-51

How.

105:27-38; 135:9; Ex 3:19,20; De 4:34; 6:22; Ne 9:10

wrought. Heb. set. wonders.

105:29; Ex 7:17-21; Re 16:3-6The miracles mentioned in this and the four subsequent verses, evidently shew the power of God over the elements of nature, which at that time were the objects of Egyptian worship.

sent.

105:31; Ex 8:21-24

frogs.

105:30; Ex 8:2-15; Re 16:3

gave also.

105:34,35; Ex 10:12-15; Joe 1:4-7; 2:25; Am 7:1,2; Re 9:2-11

the caterpillar.{Chosal,} from {chasal,} to consume, eat up, is rendered [\~broucov\~, brouchos] by the LXX., in 2 Ch 6:28, and Aquila here, and also the Vulgate in Chron. and Isa 33:4 and Jerome here, {bruchus,} the chaffer, which every one knows to be a great devourer of the leaves of trees. The Syriac in Joel 1:4; 2:25, renders it {tzartzooro,} which Michaelis, from the Arabic {tzartzar,} a cricket, interprets the mole-cricket, which in its grub state is also very destructive to corn, grass, and other vegetables, by cankering the roots on which it feeds.

destroyed. or, killed. with hail.

105:32,33; Ex 9:18-34

sycamore.From the value of the sycamore in furnishing wood for various uses, from the grateful shade which its wide spreading branches afforded, and on account of the fruit, which Mr. Maillet says the Egyptians hold in the highest estimation, we may conceive somewhat of the loss they sustained when "their vines were destroyed with hail; and their sycamore trees with frost." See Note on 1 Ch 27:28.

frost. or, great hailstones.

gave up. Heb. shut up. hot thunderbolts. or, lightnings.

Ex 9:28

cast.

11:6; Job 20:23; Isa 42:25; La 4:11; Zep 3:8; Ro 2:8,9

by sending.

1Ki 22:21,22; Job 1:12; 2:6,7

made away. Heb. weighed a path. he spared.

Job 27:22; Eze 5:11; 7:4,9; 8:18; 9:10; Ro 8:32; 2Pe 2:4,5

life over to the pestilence. or, beasts to the murrain.

Ex 9:3-6

smote.