For there was not one quality in the people which could in anywise move the heart towards them except their misery not one worthy moral feeling, not one generous emotion, not the smallest care for the glory of God. Thus it is a complete deliverance from all that can be brought against us; not a going through the world with hope of protective mercy, which is the notion of man, but a complete victory over the foe present and future. "They came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.". There was no communion. Thus there are all the great elements of the future kingdom. Thus we have to make death and resurrection good in our practice, learning the reality of the wilderness and the utter want of all power of refreshment in the place and circumstances through which we are passing. What then is the true meaning? 63), "is in Exodus 17:1-16 and Numbers 20:1-13 of the water brought out of the rock, and the origin of the name Meribah. Israel must leave now. The last of these chapters that I would now notice is the typical picture of the scene of glory; and there too is seen the Gentile in singular prominence Jethro eating bread with the elders of Israel. Vid. . The truth is that He speaks of good men and bad men; that He mentions not only what was excellent in the good, but such distressing and shameful things as draw out His own chastening it may be for a long while to come. 5. sect. Thus, whatever difficulties might rise before Israel, no matter what their source or character, the day of the Red Sea is always, whether in the Psalms or the prophets, the point to which the heart of an instructed Israelite turned. "He cried unto Jehovah; and Jehovah showed him a tree which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet. This clearly is not conveyed anywhere, but that God had not before revealed Himself in that relationship as He did then. They are made to feel the necessity of dependence on the one who is not in the fight, but outside it, and above it all. Vid. Yahweh doesn't say that Israel will have war with Amalek, but that Yahweh will do so. * It is a matter, perhaps, too well known to need many words, that every woman was simply to ask of her neighbour, etc., vessels of silver and of gold, with raiment, which were to be put on Israel's sons and daughters. If He thus dwells in us, is not this one of the capital truths which we are called to make good in our faith and practice day by day? If He chooses a man that is slow of speech, who can say Nay? Never do we meet with language like this in the New Testament. When morning arrived, the east wind had brought the locusts. sermons, and the psalmists in their songs, have recorded those In Exodus the rock was by divine direction smitten smitten by Moses' rod of judgment. Even as every country has its mythology, the Greeks have their mythology, the Roman mythology; many Jews look upon this as mythology. (vs.1-20) And Moses said, You must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God. . Hence it is to be observed that first God draws particular attention to His being the God of the fathers. For he who errs is not a sinner but a fool, and his conversion to a better way of life does not require repentance but a better understanding." But what else is there that we have not? Here is, I. Else we find either no water whatever, or the water brackish and undrinkable. They never were in greater alarm than after they had partaken of the paschal feast; but that alarm was used of God to show the total inability of Israel to cope with the difficulty. writers appear. In such a position he had the finest opportunities for assuaging the hard lot of the Israelites, and it might be for accomplishing that which was so dear to his heart, their deliverance from thraldom. Nevertheless peace is impossible if we have only that which answers to the Passover. (Bonfrere) The locusts would come from Exodus 10:1. The apostle says, "God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us: much more then, being now justified by his blood" (it is evidently the same grand truth as the Passover), "we shall be saved from wrath through him." THE *ISRAELITES LEAVE EGYPT (Verses 4, 12) The gift of manna to the people is also connected with that of the quails. had brown spotted wings, with legs and bodies of a bright yellow; (Exodus 6:9; Exodus 6:12) But in Exodus 4:31 they believed and rejoiced when he announced deliverance to them. 20, 21, the small number of priests for their work, they are imaginary and prove great inattention to the facts in Scripture. struggle against the power of evil is another matter. People not imbued with scriptural truth are often apt to talk of salvation in a slighting or at least superficial way. The extent of the devastation is specifically given in the final clause, "through all the land of Egypt"; and, also the land of the Hebrews (Goshen) was exempted. south, being bred in Nubia or Abyssinia; but the Hebrew (_ruakh It was to spoil their oppressors by divine authority, and no question whatever of deceit or dishonesty. They must not be disheartened even by the growing troubles of the children of Israel. And thus fittingly He, as Jehovah their God, pledges before them His own unchangeable character to accomplish His promises. par. let the p AND MOSES STRETCHED FORTH HIS ROD OVER THE LAND OF EGYPT,. His ", Accordingly, as a message to Israel, surrounded by the vanities of the heathen those imaginary objects of adoration whose rle really was that of demons taking advantage of man's superstition and folly, it was a fine and an admirable name for those who might ask it: "I AM hath sent me.". . But oh, don't make your kids be a part of it. 15 For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt. It was not enough to be the almighty shield of the children as of the fathers: no matter what their weakness and exposure in the midst of jealous and hostile and wicked Canaanites, He had been the protector of the wandering patriarchs. It is owned that of course human language is the finite; but then He who comes down into the finite is Himself infinite, and we must never lose sight of this, although put now in its most general shape. "This night" and "that night" can in no way invalidate these directions, nor is their own meaning doubtful. Sacr. So thick was the dust that the darkness could literally be felt. . It was also as strong an argument for their repentance as the judgment itself; for by this it appeared that God is ready to forgive, and swift to show mercy. The This is remarkably evinced in the character now given them, as well as their preciousness with God. Second, he permitted them to leave Egypt but not to go far from it (Exodus 8:28). DESTROYED BY THE RETRIBUTION OF GOD Send by whom thou wilt send By any but me. wind, probably because locusts most commonly enter Egypt from the He retires from the scene to the land of Midian, and there is put through the necessary discipline for the mighty work he was yet to accomplish. Sacr. Whatever may be the power, there is no taking them out of the place of dependence. We note in this passage a distinct change of tone. O. T. i. ix.) 1. II. It is said that Jehovah met and sought to kill him. Throughout the word of God there are two standing types of sin. Here He was ready for His part to accomplish. Then Moses finds another difficulty. If the east wind was at 25 m.p.h., a distance of some 600 miles would have been traversed in the 24-hour period. Man, with all his contrivances, can do nothing to protect himself from the overwhelming invasion. God makes both true in Christ of the believer; but purchase is unlimited, as an examination of the Greek Testament will convince any soul who reads the word of God with a subject spirit; while redemption has its defined objects. blowing from the south-east. Aaron's rod of priestly grace from before Jehovah), and he and Aaron to speak to the rock before the eyes of the people, when it should give forth water. What exists was called into being, and may pass out of it, if God so please. But qaadiym (H6921), is commonly used in Scripture (Job 27:21; Isaiah 27:8; Jeremiah 18:17; Ezek. And this has an amazing effect upon the spiritual man, who nourishes himself on the sound words of God, because we are all apt otherwise to be careless and to use words lightly. Such is the known significance of blood symbolically in scripture. It may be said that the elders were the persons spoken to in the latter case, not the people; and that they were induced to believe in him by the signs he wrought. It is by confounding the scriptures that men misunderstand them: if we would indeed enter into the real force of God's word, it must always be by distinguishing the things that differ. They consumed the remaining half of the crops and trees left by the hail. Whether all were to be fully made good now, or whether only to a partial extent, whether even the partial accomplishment was to be opposed and weakened, and useless as far as this could do it by Israel's own folly and sin, all this would afterwards appear. You may be thus involved at this very hour. There might be unreadiness on their part, but He at any rate was able to make good all He had promised. in _Wind from "the south," (Septuagint) or "east," ( Kadim) or perhaps THE PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS; OR, THE RESIDUE OF HUMAN COMFORT AND ENJOYMENT Who then is able to stand before the great God? Compare Exodus 9:22; Exodus 9:23. Now the Lord's been doing these things up to this point to let Pharaoh know who He is. And is there anything that more beautifully shows the character of scripture than this? We have what belongs to heaven while we are here. "Yah has sworn: 'Yahweh will have war with Amalek from generation to generation'" (v. 16). (Exodus 4:22) Heads of houses did fall afterwards at the Red Sea with Pharaoh's host; but the ten plagues were in the way of preparatory chastenings, not the figure of so wide and indiscriminate a judgment. So they did not leave each other in the best of terms. The tamarix manifera or tarafa shrub yields the substance in question by the puncture of an insect, the coccus maniparus, Exodus 16:9-26; Exodus 16:9-26 is Elohistic; Numbers 11:1-35 is Jehovistic. And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts. Thus, in Genesis 22:1-24, when Isaac was taken from under the sentence of death, Abraham calls the place "Jehovah-Jireh." Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt." is composite. There is nothing therefore that can hinder a soul from being the object of the most real love to God except the persistent rejection of Himself. God was now about to present Himself as the unchanging One that could and would accomplish His word according to the relation in which He and His people stood. 20 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go. The locust is the most terrible plague of Eastern lands. Then the poor among your people may get food from it, and . This again is not an immaterial expression by the way, but bound up with the truth now first brought before us: "Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O Jehovah, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the sanctuary, O Jehovah, which thy hands have established. Every one knows the habit in Hebrew, and indeed other languages, for the speaker to throw himself forward into the chief event in question, even if there had been no express preliminaries which evince the futility of the statement. Egypt But there they failed. Pharaoh, at the persuasion of his servants, is willing to treat again with Moses ( v. 7-9 ), but they cannot agree ( v. 10, 11 ). 5. c. 4. p. 794. i Hierozoic. And take care that, not only knowing and enjoying it, we walk suitably to grace: else it loses its character. His decisions are represented as spontaneous creative acts motivated by considerations which are beyond human comprehension, although he may graciously disclose some of them." The word is somewhat vague, and probably has a wider meaning and not so definite as serpent. Now it was undeniable. It is of course as simple as necessary for those who know God, but none the less delightful to find it stated clearly. l. 11. c. 29. h Frantzii Hist. The one will find the amplest confirmation of Exodus 16:1-36 and Numbers 11:1-35 as distinct accounts illustrating sovereign grace and creature-responsibility; the other can hardly avoid seeing a further and independent proof of his ruinous unbelief. It shows that Moses and Aaron were beginning to get on his nerves." This was the more touching, because He knew right well how these very men were about to disgrace Him. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. Exodus 10:13. 5. c. 4. p. 794. Pharaoh desires their prayers that this death only might be taken away, not this sin: he deprecates the plague of locusts, not the plague of a hard heart, which yet was much the more dangerous. Accordingly the tale is told with all simplicity. It has been observed that the plagues of Eg EXPOSITION in great numbers: And God miraculously increased them. Exodus 10:13 - Adam Clarke Bible Commentary, Exodus 10:13 - Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary, Exodus 10:13 - Annotated Bible by A.C. 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God has just left it, as He always knows how to do left what was of Himself to tell its own tale, whilst that which was not of Himself is before the spiritual judgment of those who have confidence in Him. Surely God is evermore and evermore God. At last in Exodus 12:1-51 comes the grand decisive stroke, where there was no appearance of second causes, and the hand of God made itself felt in an unprecedented way. We wait for nothing except Christ Himself in actual person to take us above. A most astonishing thing it might seem at first sight, that after having been thus blessed, the first thing the people find is a wilderness where there is no water; and that, when they do come to water, it is so bitter that they cannot drink it. It is an easily settled principle after all, and it accounts for much on which men's minds otherwise are apt to stumble. Besides there may have been notice given long before the tenth of Abib. The free gift of the Spirit of God to us in our thirst and weariness depends simply on Christ suffering for us Christ coming under judicial dealing, the rod of God as applied to that rock. Ph 8. 2. l. 1. c. 15. col. 101, 102, & l. 4. c. 3. col. 463. Pharaoh offered Moses a compromise that was unacceptable and disaster struck again. I am not aware of anything of the sort. . It's truth; it is the last time that he asks them to pray for him. Cf. He is the sent One, but a consciously divine person. Kalisch (Commentary on Exodus, p. 213 et seq.) Aaron and Hur held his hands upone on one side, one on the . It was there that God showed, not merely what must be in order that He should be able righteously to abstain from judging (and hence destroying) a sinful people, but what He is in defence of His people against all their foes, were they the mightiest. 12 When Moses' hands grew tired, they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it. How came it that there lacked that which typifies the mortifying the flesh in those who were nearest to Moses? New International Version. An army might more easily have been resisted than this host of Verse Exodus 10:13. that night; all that day after he had And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD Nevertheless God expresses in the most affecting manner His tender interest in them even as they were. Pharaoh offered Moses three compromises, which the world still offers Christians. I grant you that my body is not yet changed, nor yours; but then we have got infinitely better than even the body changed for us if alone; we have Christ Himself, and this risen and in God's presence on high. He is thus more incredulous than the magicians who said to Pharaoh, "This is the finger of God" not a mere combination of unusual circumstances with a natural phenomenon. In truth, on Him hangs everything. Yahweh commence with the opening, let My people go' (compare Exodus Ethiopia, or from Arabia, in both which countries they abound. God never compelled a man to be au unbeliever. The _eighth_plague. And here comes in another principle of immense importance. Salvation means that I am brought consciously to know God in the triumph of redemption by Christ for me. 24 P H. THE LOCUSTS For instance, take the Nile: we know the boastfulness of Egypt in that river which they supposed to be the great earthly emblem of God. Moses is careful to record the natural and usual cause of the evil, portentous as it was both in extent and in connection with its denouncement. It is not merely a good hope of being delivered, but that the person himself by grace has no doubt about it. show His signs before them, 12-20 God bids Moses stretch out his hand; locusts came at the call. Hist. This is what He is from everlasting to everlasting. He had driven Moses and Aaron from him (Exodus 10:11; Exodus 10:11), telling them (it is likely) he would have no more to do with them. The wind began at once with the stretching out of Moses' rod, indicating the certainty of the developing plague, and the vast distance from which the locusts came showed that Jehovah's power was by no means restricted to Egypt, but that it reached over the whole world. the picture of a halting, confused Pharaoh plays well here at the conclusion of the plague narratives. It is now, after redemption, that God reveals Himself as "glorious in holiness." It was apart from all common food. Moses ascribes it to the stretching out, not of his own hand, but the rod of God, the instituted sign of God's presence with him. This was followed by an outbreak of painful skin diseases among the Egyptian people (9:1-12).Before he announced the seventh plague, God reminded Pharaoh of his mercy towards him in the previous plagues. The ninth plague: darkness (Exodus 10:21) For this the text not only gives no ground but furnishes its unequivocal disproof. *The remarks of Dr. D. (Introd. 5. Exodus 10:13, CSB: So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the Lord sent an east wind over the land all that day and . CONTENTS: Plagues of locusts and darkness. The removal of the judgment, upon the prayer of Moses, Exodus 10:18; Exodus 10:19. ", "According toExodus 6:2; Exodus 6:2, etc., Moses received his divine commission to deliver the people out of bondage in Egypt. In fact she at last was obliged to do what she most hated, as she said herself in her son's case. CHAPTER 10 An east wind brought the locusts, and now a west wind carried them off. south, being bred in Nubia or Abyssinia; but the Hebrew (_ruakh 12 The plague of the locusts. The rationalist counts at least the first of these "a natural phenomenon of the country," the wonder being its origination by Aaron and the exemption of the Israelites. How truly of the Lord! The gift of the Spirit is from Christ after He was smitten, and suffered for us. [Note: Ibid., p. in connection with its denouncement. CHAPTER 10 THE EIGHTH AND NINTH PLAGUES They were particularly suited in the wisdom of God to humble Egypt. In the second, growing out of these circumstances and of the edict which doomed to death every man-child of Israel, appears the deliverer, the type of an infinitely greater one. His commission indeed ran against Egypt, but his intercession was for it, which was a good reason why they should love him, though they feared him. Moses thus replies, "Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name?" That which ought to have been for refreshment as well as for purifying becomes the sign of death life no longer in the body. Hence it was in no casual sort or merely arresting attention by its wonders that Jehovah here appears in the burning bush. Need I add that we have a better than Moses, who requires neither Aaron nor Hur to support His arm in interceding for us? In Exodus 7:1-25 begins the great struggle, and wonders upon wonders awfully fall on the devoted land of Egypt. . Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not a hoof be left behind ( Exodus 10:25-26 ); In other words, Moses is saying, "Man, when we go, we're goin all the way. All others are merely beings that exist; God is the only one who can say "I AM." The Eighth Plague:Locusts. AN EAST WIND] Locusts are known frequently to have come from the East, At the back side of the desert in Horeb, the angel of Jehovah appears to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. Exodus 10 Resources. When an army of locusts invades a locality, the end is usually that it is blown into the sea (as in Exodus 10:19) or the desert."[20]. THE PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS; OR, THE RESIDUE OF HUMAN COMFORT AND ENJOYMENT Exodus 10:13 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments. Then came the sixth judgment (Exodus 9:8-12), a boil breaking forth with brains on man and beast in all Egypt, and notably on the magicians who could not stand before Moses. Nay, hereby he not only commanded the respect, but recommended himself to the good affections of the Egyptians, inasmuch as, while the judgment came in obedience to his summons, the removal of it was in answer to his prayers. III. But God was working not only for a design according to His own heart, but so that the manner in which that design was to be accomplished should bring Him glory. What an absurd inference it would be that the term "Father" had never been known before? Accordingly mark how Jehovah deals in His own wisdom. As the same name could not be given twice, both must have grown out of one. 16 Pharaoh sueth to Moses. They too would be the chosen vessel of His power in their weakness, and this for ever in His mercy. It was as great a proof of the authority of Moses, and as firm a ratification of his commission and his interest in that God who both makes peace and creates evil,Isaiah 45:7. THE PLAGUES OF LOCUSTS AND OF DARKNESS
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