For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I [am] the LORD.
Ver. 12. And I will smite all the firstborn.] This crosseth not that in Ezekiel 18:20, "The son shall not bear the iniquity of his father"; for God never punisheth the innocent, because all are guilty before him. These Egyptians had slain Israel, God's firstborn. And it is the observation of Theodoret, that when God smote Pharaoh's firstborn, he drew blood of the arm for the cure of the head: which, because it mended not thereupon, came also to confusion.
And against all the gods of Egypt.] As he did here upon the Popish idols in the beginning of the Reformation, by detecting their vanity, and laying their honour in the dust.