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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Exodus 7:23

He did not seriously consider it, nor the causes or cure of this plague, and was not much affected with it, because he saw this fact exceeded not the power of his magicians.

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    4. THE NINE PLAGUES AND THE TENTH JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED CHAPTER 7:14-25 The First Plague _ 1. The plague announced (Exodus 7:14)_ 2. The judgment executed (Exodus 7:20) Nine judgment plagues follow, a...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EXODUS 7:14 TO EXODUS 12:36. THE TEN PLAGUES. How deeply this series of events imprinted itself on the mind and heart of the nation is shown by the fulness with which the three sources report them. J...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    1°. WATER TURNED INTO BLOOD (Exodus 7:14 a J; Exodus 7:15 b E_ r_; Exodus 7:16 a J; Exodus 7:17 b, with the rod. hand, E;...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Exodus 7:14 to Exodus 11:5 _The first nine Plagues_ The narrative of the Plagues, like that of the preceding Chapter s, is composite. The details of the analysis depend partly upon literary criteria...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 7 And Je-ho-vah said unto Mo-ses. See, I have made thee as God to Pha-raoh; and Aar-on thy brother shall be thy prophet. (2) Thou shalt speak all that I command thee; an...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND PHARAOH TURNED AND WENT INTO HIS HOUSE, NEITHER DID HE SET HIS HEART TO THIS ALSO._ No JFB commentary on this verse....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE ROD OF MOSES TURNED INTO A SERPENT. THE FIRST PLAGUE 1. A god to Pharaoh] see on Exodus 4:16. THY PROPHET] A prophet is a spokesman. The prophets of God are those who declare His will. In doing th...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    EXODUS: ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION THE *ISRAELITES LEAVE EGYPT EXODUS CHAPTER S 1 TO 18 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 7 V1 Then the *LORD replied to Moses. ‘Listen! Your brother, Aaron, w...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    NEITHER DID HE SET HIS HEART TO THIS ALSO. — Heb., _Neither did he set his heart_ (_i.e.,_ pay attention) _even to this._ Pharaoh did not lay even this to heart. He passed it over as a slight matter,...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יִּ֣פֶן פַּרְעֹ֔ה וַ יָּבֹ֖א אֶל ־בֵּיתֹ֑ו

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE FIRST PLAGUE. Exodus 7:14. It was perhaps when the Nile was rising, and Pharaoh was coming to the bank, in pomp of state, to make official observation of its progress, on which the welfare of the...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    SIGN OF THE WATERS TURNED TO BLOOD Exodus 7:14 Satan will mimic God's work up to a point. We are told that Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses; but even then Moses' rod swallowed their rods. They were...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    We have here the record of God's answer to Moses' difficulty. He reaffirmed Himself and charged His servant to speak to Pharaoh the things commanded. Moreover, He foretold the result of the delivery o...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Isaiah 5:12....

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    There is hardly a book of the Old Testament that stands out in more decided contrast with the book of Genesis than the one which follows it most closely. And this is the more striking, because God emp...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    23._And Pharaoh turned. _In this word Moses teaches us that the hardness of heart, to which God had devote Pharaoh, was voluntary; so that the sin rested in himself, nor did the secret appointment of...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 5 THROUGH 13. At the news of the goodness of God, the people adore Him; but the struggle against the power of evil is another matter. Satan will not let the p...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND PHARAOH TURNED, AND WENT INTO HIS HOUSE,.... Turned away from Moses and Aaron, and turned back from the river to which he came, and went to his palace in the city; it being perhaps now about dinne...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he set his heart to this also. Ver. 23. _Neither did he set his heart._] But to his "iron sinews" he added "brows of brass." Isa 48:4 To his na...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Moses is encouraged to go to Pharaoh. 7 His age. 8 His rod is turned into a Serpent. 11 The sorcerers do the like. 13 Pharaohs heart is hardened. 14 Gods message to Pharaoh. 19 The riuer is tu...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he set his heart to this also. His heart was in no manner moved to grant the request of Moses and Aaron....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE PLAGUE OF BLOOD...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    SECOND SECTION The miracles of Moses, or the result of the nine Egyptian Plagues, preliminary to the last. Pharaoh’s alternate repentance and obduracy Exodus 7:8 to Exodus 10:29 A. MOSES’ MIRACULOUS...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    GOD'S ANSWER TO MOSES (vs.1-7) Though Moses had protested that he was of uncircumcised lips, God assured him that He was making Moses a god to Pharaoh, therefore that Pharaoh would not be able to tot...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    14-25 Here is the first of the ten plagues, the turning of the water into blood. It was a dreadful plague. The sight of such vast rolling streams of blood could not but strike horror. Nothing is more...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    11 These five Chapter s form one distinct section, the contents of which may be distributed into the three following divisions, namely, the ten judgements from the hand of Jehovah; the resistance of...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Exodus 7:23 Pharaoh H6547 turned H6437 (H8799) went H935 (H8799) house H1004 heart H3820 moved H7896 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    (For an introduction to the plagues, see the Chapter Comments). THE FIRST PLAGUE - THE NILE IS TURNED INTO ‘BLOOD' (EXODUS 7:14). a Yahweh says that Pharaoh's heart is stubborn so that he will not...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Contest with Pharaoh. First plague. Water turned to blood. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron, Pharaoh, magician. CONCLUSION: We see God's almighty power, the unstability of all things under th...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Exodus 7:1. _I have made thee a god._ אלהים _Elohim._ The Chaldaic renders it תחי ליה לרב Thou shalt be to him for a prince. The divine sense of the word is, I have invested thee with Godlike powers t...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _They shall be turned to blood._ THE RIVER WHICH WAS TURNED INTO BLOOD I. The river. Has received various names. “The river of Egypt” (Genesis 15:18); Sihor (Job 13:3); Shihor (1 Chronicles 13:5). Di...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 7:14_ THE RIVER TURNED INTO BLOOD; OR, MAN’S CHIEF PLEASURE AND PRIDE MADE THE MEDIUM OF DIVINE RETRIBUTION I. THAT DIVINE RETRIBUTIONS ARE SENT WHEN OTHER...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION On the occurrence of the second sign and first plague, the magicians were again consulted; and, by means which it is impossible to do more the. conjecture, they produced a seeming transform...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    And the Lord said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet. Thou shalt speak all that I command thee: and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Phara...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    neither Exodus 9:21 Deuteronomy 32:46 1 Samuel 4:20 Job 7:17 Psalms 62:10

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    FAITH AS EXEMPLIFIED IN MOSES Selections from Exodus 3:1; Exodus 6:1; Exodus 7:1; Exodus 8:1;...

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