My firstborn - The expression would be perfectly intelligible to Pharaoh, whose official designation was “son of Ra.” In numberless inscrip…

Israel is my son. —Compare Hosea 11:1. This tender relation, now first revealed, is not a mere metaphor, meaning “as dear…

Israel is my son, even my first-born. God thus refutes, by anticipation, the only pretext by which Pharaoh could justify his refusal to le…

And thou shall say unto Pharaoh When arrived in Egypt, and in his presence: thus saith the Lord…

After God had appeared in the bush, He often spoke to Moses. Pharaoh had hardened his own heart against the groans and cries of the oppressed Israe…