Pharaoh Stubborn Against Israel’s Release. Yet Pharaoh’s heart was hardened and he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said. Exo 7:13
INTRODUCTION TO THE OLD TESTAMENT
The Nation Israel Delivered and Organized
ISRAEL IN EGYPT, Exodus 1:8-12:36
14. What occurred at Moses’ first interview with Pharaoh?
Exodus 6:28-30
And
Exodus 7:1-13
(6:28 -30)Now it happened on the day when the LORD spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt,
that He said, “I am the LORD; tell Pharaoh king of Egypt everything that I say to you.”
But Moses said before the LORD, “Look, I am unskilled and inept in speech; how then will Pharaoh listen to me and pay attention to what I say?”
MOSES AND AARON BEFORE PHARAOH
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Now hear this: I make you as God to Pharaoh [to declare My will and purpose to him]; and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet.
You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall tell Pharaoh to let the children of Israel go out of his land.
And I will make Pharaoh’s heart hard, and multiply My signs and My wonders (miracles) in the land of Egypt.
But Pharaoh will not listen to you, and I shall lay My hand on Egypt and bring out My hosts [like a defensive army, tribe by tribe], My people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment (the plagues).
The Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch out My hand on Egypt and bring out the children of Israel from among them.”
And Moses and Aaron did so; just as the LORD commanded them, so they did.
Now Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three years old when they spoke to Pharaoh.
Now the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
“When Pharaoh says to you, ‘Work a miracle [to prove your authority],’ then you say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh, so that it may become a serpent.'”
So Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and did just as the LORD had commanded; Aaron threw down his staff before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a serpent.
Then Pharaoh called for the wise men [skilled in magic and omens] and the sorcerers [skilled in witchcraft], and they also, these magicians (soothsayer-priests) of Egypt, did the same with their secret arts and enchantments.
For every man threw down his staff and they turned into serpents; but Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.
Yet Pharaoh’s heart was hardened and he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said.
Comments by
F.B.Meyer
On
Exodus 6:28–7:13
PHARAOH STUBBORN AGAINST ISRAEL’S RELEASE
How often we say in a similar tone, “I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?” Forty years in the wilderness, in absolute solitude, had robbed Moses of the eloquence with which Stephen credits him in earlier life. Like Jeremiah, he felt himself a child and unable to speak.
It is an awful moment when the human will sets itself in antagonism to the divine. If it will not bend, it must break. For once the scion of an imperial race had met his superior. It were better for the potsherd to strive with the potsherds of the earth! But God is not unreasonable. At the outset He endeavored to prove to Pharaoh who and what He was. One of the chief reasons for the plagues, as well as of these miracles, was to establish the fact that the Jehovah of the Hebrews was the great Being who lives behind the whole apparatus of nature.
Comments by
WILLIAM MACDONALD
Believers Bible Commentary
On
Exodus 6:28–7:13
IV. MOSES’ CONFRONTATIONS WITH PHARAOH (5:1–7:13)
A. The First Confrontation (5:1–7:6)
6:13-30 The genealogies in verses 14-25 are limited to Reuben, Simeon, and Levi, the first three sons born to Jacob. The author did not want to give a complete genealogy but only to trace the line to Moses and Aaron. So he quickly passed over Reuben and Simeon to come to the priestly tribe.
7:1-5 At the close of chapter 6, Moses wondered why the mighty Pharaoh would listen to such a poor speaker as he. The Lord’s answer was that Moses stood before Pharaoh as a representative of God. Moses would speak to Aaron, and Aaron would convey the message to Pharaoh. Pharaoh would not heed, but God would deliver His people anyway!
7:6 Moses and Aaron were eighty and eighty-three years old respectively when their great ministry of deliverance began. Even in what today would be called “old age,” God can use men and women for His glory.
B. The Second Confrontation (7:7-13)
Pharaoh was forewarned of coming trouble. When Aaron cast down his rod and it became a serpent, Pharaoh’s magicians and sorcerers were able to duplicate the miracle through demonic powers. We learn from 2Ti_3:8 that the magicians of Egypt were Jannes and Jambres. They resisted Moses by imitating him and Aaron, but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods. God hardened Pharaoh’s heart, not arbitrarily, but in response to his stubbornness. It was now time for the first plague.
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