And he went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the LORD.
The verse belongs to the dreadful plague of locusts by which Egypt was nearly destroyed and ruined. The locusts covered the face of the whole earth and darkened the land, eating every herb and all the fruit left after the hail until no green thing remained in all Egypt. The Egyptians feared that after eating everything in the fields the locusts would attack and devour the people themselves.
Before this, Pharaoh urgently summoned Moses and Aaron in haste. He admitted that he had sinned against God and against them, asked pardon for that one occasion only, and asked Moses to plead with God to remove this deadly plague of death from him.
After Pharaoh had resisted God's command, Moses left Pharaoh's presence and prayed to and interceded with the Lord at Pharaoh's request to seek relief from the locusts. In answer God turned a mighty strong west wind that took away the locusts and cast them into the Red Sea, so that not one locust remained anywhere in Egypt and its coasts. Although Pharaoh showed humility while death threatened him, once he was relieved from the plague he hardened his heart and would not let the children of Israel go.
Pharaoh yielded only what he was compelled to yield by dreadful visitation. He followed a pattern of yielding a little while under most grievous affliction and taking back what he granted when the affliction was removed. He had first conceded that sacrifice could be made in the land of Egypt, then that the men alone could go, then after the locusts that the children and wives could also go while still refusing to let the cattle go. He persisted in rebellion even after Egypt was ruined, although he was told beforehand the nature and effect of each plague that would follow refusal and saw each plague come exactly as told.
The plague was part of the judgments that Pharaoh chose to endure and receive rather than submit to God. Without remorse he watched his whole kingdom lie under the miracle of these dreadful judgments. The coming and going of the locusts showed that Egypt's idols could not protect the land. The locusts came at Moses' command and left only at his bidding, making clear that Jehovah and not Serapis controlled both the threat and its removal.
The verse belongs to the dreadful plague of locusts by which Egypt was nearly destroyed and ruined. The locusts covered the face of the whole earth and darkened the land, eating every herb and all the fruit left after the hail until no green thing remained in all Egypt. The Egyptians feared that after eating everything in the fields the locusts would attack and devour the people themselves.
Before this, Pharaoh urgently summoned Moses and Aaron in haste. He admitted that he had sinned against God and against them, asked pardon for that one occasion only, and asked Moses to plead with God to remove this deadly plague of death from him.
After Pharaoh had resisted God's command, Moses left Pharaoh's presence and prayed to and interceded with the Lord at Pharaoh's request to seek relief from the locusts. In answer God turned a mighty strong west wind that took away the locusts and cast them into the Red Sea, so that not one locust remained anywhere in Egypt and its coasts. Although Pharaoh showed humility while death threatened him, once he was relieved from the plague he hardened his heart and would not let the children of Israel go.
Pharaoh yielded only what he was compelled to yield by dreadful visitation. He followed a pattern of yielding a little while under most grievous affliction and taking back what he granted when the affliction was removed. He had first conceded that sacrifice could be made in the land of Egypt, then that the men alone could go, then after the locusts that the children and wives could also go while still refusing to let the cattle go. He persisted in rebellion even after Egypt was ruined, although he was told beforehand the nature and effect of each plague that would follow refusal and saw each plague come exactly as told.
The plague was part of the judgments that Pharaoh chose to endure and receive rather than submit to God. Without remorse he watched his whole kingdom lie under the miracle of these dreadful judgments. The coming and going of the locusts showed that Egypt's idols could not protect the land. The locusts came at Moses' command and left only at his bidding, making clear that Jehovah and not Serapis controlled both the threat and its removal.