Exodus 10:17

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.

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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 Exod...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 7:14 to Exodus 12:36 . The Ten Plagues. How deeply this series of events imprinted itself on the mind and heart of the nation is shown by...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

death . Figure of speech Metonymy (of Effect), App-6, death put for the plague which caused it.
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 p...
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 inst...
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 suc...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Eighth and Ninth Plagues 1-20. The Eighth Plague:—Locusts.
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

This death ] A graphic description of the desolation caused by the plague.
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.
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 pr...
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 langu...
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 ser...
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 betw...
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...
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....
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...
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 orde...
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 Egyp...
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 11:2...
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 wi...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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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 t...
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...
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...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THE EIGHTH PLAGUE . Notwithstanding his self-condemnation and acknowledgment of the righteousness of God in all the judgments th...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Plague of Locusts
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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. Here was...
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...
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...

¹⁷ 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.

Related Commentaries of Exodus 10:17

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Exodus 10:17