Exodus 9:12

12 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and just as the LORD had predicted to Moses, Pharaoh refused to listen.

Exodus 9:12 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 9:12

And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh
He having often, and so long hardened his own heart, God gave him up to judicial hardness of heart, to his own corruptions, the temptations of Satan, and the lying magicians about him, to make an ill use of everything that offered to him, and put a wrong construction on all that befell him, so that whatever was said to him, or inflicted on him, made no impression to any purpose: and he hearkened not unto them;
to Moses and Aaron, and to the Lord by them: as the Lord had spoken to Moses;
both that he would harden his heart, and he should not hearken to them; all this was no other than what the Lord had said should be, ( Exodus 4:21 ) ( 7:4 ) .

Exodus 9:12 In-Context

10 So they took soot from a brick kiln and went and stood before Pharaoh. As Pharaoh watched, Moses threw the soot into the air, and boils broke out on people and animals alike.

11 Even the magicians were unable to stand before Moses, because the boils had broken out on them and all the Egyptians.

12 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and just as the LORD had predicted to Moses, Pharaoh refused to listen.

13 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh. Tell him, ‘This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let my people go, so they can worship me.

14 If you don’t, I will send more plagues on you and your officials and your people. Then you will know that there is no one like me in all the earth.