Exodus 9:17

17 Dost thou then yet exert thyself to hinder my people, so as not to let them go?

Exodus 9:17 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 9:17

As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt
not let them go?
] And so against God himself, disobeying his commands, despising his messengers, and slighting his miracles, and hardening his heart against him, and refusing to let Israel go, after all; thereby showing the most intolerable pride and insolence not only against the Lord's poor people, but against himself, for what is done to them he takes as done to himself; or "dost thou still tread upon my people?"

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 trample them under foot, and make an highway or causeway of them.
F5 (ymeb llwtom Kdwe) "adhuc tu calcas populum meum?" some in Drusius; so Jarchi.

Exodus 9:17 In-Context

15 For now I will stretch forth my hand and smite thee and kill thy people, and thou shalt be consumed from off the earth.

16 And for this purpose hast thou been preserved, that I might display in thee my strength, and that my name might bepublished in all the earth.

17 Dost thou then yet exert thyself to hinder my people, so as not to let them go?

18 Behold, to-morrow at this hour I will rain a very great hail, such as has not been in Egypt, from the time it was created until this day.

19 Now then hasten to gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the fields; for all the men and cattle as many as shall be found in the fields, and shall not enter into a house, (but the hail shall fall upon them,) shall die.