Verse of the Day
Author Spotlight
Loading featured author...
Report Issue
See a formatting issue or error?
Let us know →
Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to Yahweh your God, that he may also take away from me this death."
Verse Takeaways
1
The Reality of "This Death"
Commentators explain that when Pharaoh begs for "this death" to be taken away, he is not exaggerating. The plague of locusts was so severe that it destroyed the entire food supply, threatening mass famine and death. This highlights the tangible and devastating consequences of God's judgment.
See 3 Verse Takeaways
Book Overview
Exodus
Author
Audience
Composition
Teaching Highlights
Outline
+ 5 more
See Overview
5
18th Century
Presbyterian
This death only - Pliny calls locusts a pestilence brought on by divine wrath. Pharaoh now recognizes the justice of his servants’ apprehens…
19th Century
Anglican
This death. — Compare to Exodus 10:7. The entire destruction of the harvest threatened death to large numbers of the poorer class …
Baptist
See how he is obliged to come to his knees eventually. He will be up again soon, for his heart is not humbled, though he is eating his own words. A…
Go ad-free and create your own bookmark library
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin, only this once , &c.] Pretending that he would never offend any more, and if he di…
God commands Moses to stretch out his hand; locusts came at the call. An army might more easily have been resisted than this host of insects. Who t…
