Exodus 10:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat the LORD your God, that he may take away from me this death only. ”

Exodus 10:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This death only - Pliny calls locusts a pestilence brought on by divine wrath. Pharaoh now recognizes the justice of his servants’ apprehensions, Exodus 10:7 .
Exodus 10:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

8°. A Locust Swarm ( Exodus 10:1-11 J; Exodus 10:12-13 a, Egypt, E; Exodus 10:13 b J; Exodus 10:14 a E; Exodus 10:14 b and rested to Exodus 10:15 a darkened, J; Exodus 10:15 b E to lef...
Exodus 10:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

death . Figure of speech Metonymy (of Effect), App-6, death put for the plague which caused it.
Exodus 10:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat the LORD your God, that he may take away from me this death only. Forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once - What a strange c...
Exodus 10:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Take away from me this death— Locusts were generally esteemed an immediate token of the Divine displeasure; and, from the universal and almost instantaneous destruction they occasioned in a country...
Exodus 10:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be suc...
Exodus 10:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Eighth and Ninth Plagues 1-20. The Eighth Plague:—Locusts.
Exodus 10:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

This death. — Comp, Exodus 10:7 . The entire destruction of the harvest threatened death to large numbers of the poorer class of persons.
Exodus 10:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER X. THE EIGHTH PLAGUE. Exodus 10:1-20 . The Lord would not command His servant again to enter the dangerous presence of the sullen prince, without a reason which would sustain his fai...
Exodus 10:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Plagues of Locusts and of Darkness Exodus 10:12-29 The locust is the most terrible plague of Eastern lands. The heat intense; the air languid; the sound as of a strong breeze; the sun darke...
Exodus 10:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

It would seem at this point that Moses himself was overawed by the fearful process of judgment and so before the next plague God announced to His servant a new reason for the whole movement. It was i...
Exodus 10:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Observe, the prayer of this hardened sinner was not to take away his sin, but to remove the punishment of it? This forms the striking difference between true said false repentance. Thus David says, m...
Exodus 10:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin, only this once ,.... Pretending that he would never offend any more, and if he did, he did not desire it should be forgiven him, but that due punishment s...
Exodus 10:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat the LORD your God, that he may take away from me this death only. Ver. 17. Now therefore forgive. ] Moses must forgive his si...
Exodus 10:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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.
Exodus 10:17 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

PLAGUE NO.8 -- LOCUSTS (vs.1-20) Again the Lord reminds Moses that He Himself had hardened Pharaoh's heart and the hearts of his servants in order that He might publicly show His signs before the...
Exodus 10:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

12 And the L ORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that...
Exodus 10:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I desire no further favour, I will no more offend nor need your pardon. This death; this deadly plague, compare 2 Kings 4:40 , 2 Corinthians 11:23 . Besides it did destroy the life of herbs and...
Exodus 10:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Eighth Plague - The Plague of Locusts ( Exodus 10:1-20 ). We note in this passage a distinct change of tone. No longer does Yahweh commence with the opening, ‘let My people go' (compare Exodu...
Exodus 10:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 10:16-20 A FALSE REPENTANCE Pharaoh had driven Moses and Aaron from his presence, but now he recalls them in great haste, and with much respect. The da...
Exodus 10:17 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Exodus 10:1-2 . And the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might shew these my signs before him: and that thou mayest tel...
Exodus 10:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Exodus 10:2 . In the ears of thy son. The Hebrew prophets in their sermons, and the psalmists in their songs, have recorded those wonderful works of the Lord; and the doctrines and inferences fair...
Exodus 10:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

Intreat the Lord your God. Lessons 1. God’s hasty judgments may work hasty passions in sinners, though no repentance. 2. Vengeance may make persecutors call in God’s servants for help as has...
Exodus 10:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THE EIGHTH PLAGUE . Notwithstanding his self-condemnation and acknowledgment of the righteousness of God in all the judgments that had been sent upon him ( Exodus 9:27 ), Pharaoh...
Exodus 10:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Plague of Locusts
Exodus 10:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

forgive 1 Samuel 15:25 and intreat Exodus 8:8 Exodus 9:28 1 Kings 13:6 Isaiah 26:16 Romans 15:30 Acts 8:24 this death 2 Kings 4:40 2 Corinthians 1:10
Exodus 10:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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.

Exodus 10:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Exodus 10:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 10:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Exodus 10:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Exodus 10:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Exodus 10:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Exodus 10:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 10:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Exodus 10:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Exodus 10:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Exodus 10:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Exodus 10:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Exodus 10:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Exodus 10:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Exodus 10:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Exodus 10:17 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 10:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Exodus 10:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Exodus 10:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 10:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Exodus 10:17 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Exodus 10:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Exodus 10:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

Exodus 10:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Exodus 10:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Exodus 10:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 10:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes