The Eighth Plague: Locusts. For if you refuse to let My people go, then hear this: tomorrow I will bring [migratory] locusts into your country. Exo 10:4
INTRODUCTION TO THE OLD TESTAMENT
The Nation Israel Delivered and Organized
ISRAEL IN EGYPT, Exodus 1:8-12:36
20. What compromise did Pharaoh try to make with Moses and why was it not accepted?
THE EIGHTH PLAGUE: LOCUSTS
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants [making them determined and unresponsive], so that I may exhibit My signs [of divine power] among them,
and that you may recount and explain in the hearing of your son, and your grandson, what I have done [repeatedly] to make a mockery of the Egyptians–My signs [of divine power] which I have done among them–so that you may know [without any doubt] and recognize [clearly] that I am the LORD.”
So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says the LORD, the God of the Hebrews: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they may serve Me.
For if you refuse to let My people go, then hear this: tomorrow I will bring [migratory] locusts into your country.
They shall cover the [visible] surface of the land, so that no one will be able to see the ground, and they will eat the rest of what has remained–that is, the vegetation left after the hail–and they will eat every one of your trees that grows in the field;
your houses and those of all your servants and of all the Egyptians shall be filled with locusts, as neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen, from their birth until this day.'” Then Moses turned and left Pharaoh.
Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long shall this man be a trap to us? Let the men go, so that they may serve the LORD their God. Do you not realize that Egypt is destroyed?”
So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh, and he said to them, “Go, serve the LORD your God! Who specifically are the ones that are going?”
Moses said, “We will go with our young and our old, with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds [all of us and all that we have], for we must hold a feast to the LORD.”
Pharaoh said to them, “The LORD be with you [to help you], if I ever let you go with your children [because you will never return]! Look [be forewarned], you have an evil plan in mind.
No! Go now, you who are men, [without your families] and serve the LORD, if that is what you want.” So Moses and Aaron were driven from Pharaoh’s presence.
Comments by
F.B.Meyer
On
Exodus 10:1-11
PHARAOH STILL REFUSES TO SUBMIT
Pharaoh was capable of being a noble and glorious soul, through which God might have shown forth all His power and glory, Exo_9:16. But he refused, and the profanation of the best made him the worst. There is a crisis in every soul-history up to which God’s methods appear likely to turn the proud to Himself; but if that is passed, those methods seem only to harden. Just as in winter the thaw of the noon makes harder ice during the night; so, if the love of God fails to soften, it hardens. In this sense God seemed to harden Pharaoh’s heart. The real conflict lay with his stubborn will, which would not yield, Exo_10:3; although his servants advised him to let the people go, Exo_10:7. The only result was that the king recalled the Hebrew leaders and made another effort at compromise-“Go now ye that are men.” The children are always the key to the situation.
Comments by
WILLIAM MACDONALD
Believers Bible Commentary
On
Exodus 10:1-11
IV. MOSES’ CONFRONTATIONS WITH PHARAOH (5:1–7:13)
V. THE FIRST NINE PLAGUES (7:14–10:29)
H. The Eighth Plague—Locusts (10:1-20)
Moses and Aaron warned Pharaoh of an impending locust plague, but he would agree to let only the men go to hold a feast to the LORD. The women and children had to stay behind. But God would not have the men in the wilderness while their families were still in Egypt. The plague was of unprecedented severity, with locusts covering the land and eating everything edible. This showed that the god Serapis was powerless to protect from locusts. Pharaoh seemed willing to yield, but he would not let the children of Israel go.
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