Ithamar see 1 Chron. 24. Vers. 25. Phinehas of him see Numb 25. 7. c. Ver. 26. their armies or their hosts that is not confusedly but their ordered troups being increased to many thousands and called the hosts of the Lord Exod. 12. 37. 41. and 7 4. These were after ordered according to their tribes Numb 10. 14. 15. c. Of the word host or army see Gen. 2. 1. Vers. 27. to bring that is that they might bring as verse 13. Vers. 30. of uncircumcised Greek of a small voice Chaldee of an heavy speech see before verse 12. and Exod. 4. 10. CHAP. VII 1 Moses is made Pharohs God and Aaron his Prophet 3. Pharaohs heart should bee heardned against their words and signes 6 Moses and Aaron doe a they are bidden 7 Their age 10. Aarons rod is turned to a Serpent 11 The Sorcerers doe the like 13 Pharaohs heart is hardned 14 Moses is sent againe unto him with word and signe 19 The waters of Egypt are turned into blood 21 The fishes dye 22 The Magicians doe the like miracle whereupon Pharaoh is hardned still AND Iehovah said unto Moses See I have made thee a God to Pharaoh and Aaron thy brother shall bee thy Prophet Thou shalt speake all that I command thee and Aaron thy brother shall speake unto Pharaoh that he send the sonnes of Israel out of his land And I will harden Pharaohs heart and will multiply my signes and my wonders in the land of Egypt And Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you and I will lay my hand upon Egypt and wil bring forth mine armies my people the sonnes of Israel out of the land of Egypt by great judgements And the Egyptians shall know that I am Iehovah when I stretch forth my hand upon Egypt and I will bring out the sonnes of Israel from among them And Moses and Aaron did as Iehovah commanded them so did they And Moses was fourscore yeeres old and Aaron fourescore and three yeeres old when they spake unto Pharaoh And Iehovah sayd unto Moses and unto Aaron saying When Pharaoh shall speake unto you saying Give a wonder for you then thou shalt say unto Aaron take thy rod and cast it before Pharaoh it shall be turned to a dragon And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh and they did so as Iehovah had commanded and Aaron cast his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants and it was turned to a dragon And Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers and they also the magicians of Egypt did with their inchantments so And they cast down every man his rod and they were turned to dragons and Aarons rod swallowed up their rods And Pharaohs heart waxed strong and hee hearkened not unto them as Iehovah had spoken And Iehovah said unto Moses Pharaohs heart is heavy he refuseth to send away the people Go unto Pharaoh in the morning loe he goeth out unto the waters and thou shalt stand to meet him by the rivers brinke and the rodde which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thy hand And thou shalt say unto him Iehovah the God of the Hebrews hath sent me unto thee saying Send away my people that they may serve mee in the wildernesse and behold thou hast not heard hitherto Thus saith Iehovah in this thou shalt know that I am Iehovah behold I smite with the rod which is in my hand upon the waters which are in the river they shall bee turned into blood And the fish which is in the river shall dye and the river shall stinke and the Egyptians shall bee wearied to drinke the waters of the river And Iehovah said unto Moses Say unto Aaron take thy rod and stretch out thy hand upon the waters of Egypt upon their streames upon their rivers and upon their ponds and upon every gathering together of their waters and they shall be bloud and there shall be blood in all the land of Egypt both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone And Moses and Aaron did as Iehovah commanded and he lift up the rodde and smote the waters which were in the river in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants and all the waters which were in the river were turned to blood And the fish which was in the river dyed and the river stanke and the Egyptians could not drinke the waters of the river and there was blood in all the land of Egypt And the magicians of Egypt did so by their inchantments and the heart of Pharaoh waxed strong and hee hearkned not vnto them as Iehovah had said And Pharaoh turned and went into his house and hee set not his heart to this neither And all the Egyptians digged round about the river for waters to drinke for they could not drinke of the waters of the river And seven daies were fulfilled after that Iehovah had smitten the river Annotations MAde or given thee for a God that is one to whom the word of God shall come and by whom it shall be made knowne unto Aaron and so to Pharaoh This reason Christ rendreth of the like speech Ioh. 10. 35. The Chaldee for God translateth a master see Exod. 4. 16. Prophet to speake for thee as the next verse manifesteth the Chaldee saith thy interpreter before God called him his mouth Exod. 4. 16. A Prophet hath the name of speaking or interpreting Gods word see the notes on Gen. 20. 7. Thus God confirmes Moses against his feares Exod 6. 12. 30. Ver. 2. speake the Greeke addeth to him meaning Aaron as Exod. 4. 15. Vers. 3. harden as before he said he would make strong Exod. 4. 21. wonders or perswadingmiracles for to draw men to beleeve and obey as Deut. 13. 1. 2. Ioh. 4. 48. Rom. 15. 18. 19. By such God beareth witnesse to his word preached Heb 2. 4. and they portend either good 2 Chron. 32. 24. or evill Deut. 6. 22. and 28. 46. yet can they not perswade any without the speciall grace of God Deut. 29. 2. 3. 4. Vers. 4. lay Hebrew give my hand which the Chaldee expoundeth lay my powerfull plague so verse 5. armies or hosts see Exod. 6. 26. The Greeke translateth with my power Ver. 7. old Hebrew some of 80 yeere of which phrase see Gen. 5. 32. By this it appeareth Moses had beene 40. yeeres in the land of Madian as Stephen avoucheth Act 7. 30. See Exod. 2. 23. Ver. 9. a wonder or perswading miracle that I may know ye are sent of God see verse 3. The Greeke addeth a signe or a wonder thy rod because Aaron now used it before it was Moses rod and Gods Exod. 4. 2. 20. a dragon that is a great serpent and therefore in ver 15. it is called a serpent as also before in Exod. 4. 3. So the Devill is called the dragon the old serpent Rev. 20. 2. And Pharaoh himselfe with his Egyptians are called dragons Ezek. 29. 3. Psal. 74. 13. But this wonder was a
which I have wrought in Egypt and my signes which I have put amongst them and that ye may know that I am Iehovah And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh and sayd unto him Thus saith Iehovah the God of the Hebrewes How long reâ—usest thou to humble thy selfe before mee Send away my people that they may serve mee For if thou refuse to send away my people behold I bring to morrow the Locusts into thy coast And they shall cover the eye of the earth and one shall not bee able to see the earth and they shall eate the residue of that which is escaped which remaineth unto you from the haile and shall eate every tree which groweth for you out of the field And they shall fill thy houses and the houses of all thy servants and the houses of al the Egyptians which thy fathers and thy fathers fathers have not seene since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day and he turned himselfe and went out from Pharaoh And Pharaohs servants said unto him How long shall this man be a snare unto us send away the men that they may serve Iehovah their God knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed And Moses and Aaron were brought againe unto Pharaoh and hee said unto them Goe serve Iehovah your God who and who are they that shall goe And Moses said We will goe with our yong and with our old with our sonnes and with our daughters with our flockes and with our herds will we goe for we have a feast of Iehovah And he said unto them Let Iehovah be so with you as I will send away you and your little ones see to it for evill is before your faces Not so goe now yee men and serve Iehovah for that you did request and he drove them out from Pharaohs presence And Iehovah sayd unto Moses Stretch out thy hand over the land of Egypt for the Locusts that they may come up upon the land of Egypt and eate every herbe of the land all that the haile hath left And Moses streched out his rodde over the land of Egypt and Iehovah brought an East wind upon the land all that day and all the night the morning was and the East wind brought up the Locusts And the Locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and rested in all the coasts of Egypt exceeding heavie before them there were no such Locusts as they and after them shall no such be And they covered the eye of all the earth and the land was darkned and they did eate every herbe of the land and all the fruit of the trees which the haile had left and there remained not any greene thing in the trees or in the herbes of the field in all the land of Egypt And Pharaoh hastened to call for Moses and for Aaron and he said I have sinned against Iehovah your God and against you And now forgive I pray thee my sinne onely this once and intreat ye Iehovah your God that he may take away from me this death only And he went out from Pharaoh and intreated Iehovah And Iehovah turned a vehement strong sea wind and tooke away the Locusts and fastened them to the red sea there remained not one Locust in all the coast of Egypt And Iehovah made strong the heart of Pharaoh and hee sent not away the sonnes of Israel And Iehovah said unto Moses Stretch out thy hand toward the heauens and there shall bee darkenesse over the land of Egypt that one may feele the darkenesse And Moses stretched out his hand toward the heavens and there was obscure darknesse in all the land of Egypt three daies They saw not any man his brother neither rose they any man from his place three daies but to all the sonnes of Israel there was light in their dwellings And Pharaoh called unto Moses and said Goe yee serve Iehovah onely let your flockes and your herds be stayed let your little ones also goe with you And Moses said Thou also shalt give into our hand sacrifices and burnt-offrings that we may doe sacrifice to Iehovah our God And our cattell also shall goe with us there shall not an hoofe be left for thereof shall wee take to serve Iehovah our God and we know not with what we shall serve Iehovah untill we come thither And Iehovah made strong the heart of Pharaoh and hee would not send them away And Pharaoh said unto him Get thee from mee take heed to thy selfe see my face no more for in the day thou seest my face thou shalt die And Moses said Thou hast spoken well I will not see thy face againe any more Annotations 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Here beginneth the fifteenth Section or Lecture of the Law see Gen. 6. 9. Vers. 1. for I or though I have made heavy that is hardned see Exod. 7. 14. of him of Pharaoh and his servants therefore the Greeke translateth it them saying that these signes may hereafter come upon them Vers. 2. thou this also meaneth Moses and the Israelites as after he saith yee and so the Greeke translateth here And in Deut. 6. 20. 22. Moses willeth Israel to tell their sonnes of the signes and wonders great and evill which the Lord had brought upon Egypt The like is in Psal. 78. 5. 6. 7. c. the things the Chaldee saith the miracles Vers. 3. Hebrewes in the Chaldee Iewes humble thy selfe The Greeke translateth how long wilt thou not reverence me Vers. 4. Locusts or Grashoppers the Hebrew is Locust put generally for a multitude of Locusts as tree for trees Gen. 3. 2. And the originall Arbeh hath the denomination of a multitude because their nature is to be many together as Prov. 30. 27. the Locusts have no king yet goe they forth all of them by heapes and huge multitudes are therefore resembled to Locusts Ier. 46. 23. Iudg. 6. 5. Vers. 5. the eye put for the whole face or upmost part of the earth which is seene with the eye as the Greeke translateth it the sight or superficies The Chaldee explaines it of hiding the sight of the sunne from the earth so in verse 15. Humane writers testifie that the great Locusts flie and make great noise with their wings as if they were birds and doe darken the Sunne Plinie booke 11. chapter 29. that which is escaped Hebr. the escaping or evasion Vers. 6. houses the Locusts are reported to gnaw all things even the doores of houses Plinie booke 11. chapter 29. Some of the Hebrewes write that these Locusts did not onely hurt the fruits of the earth but men also as the author of the booke of Wisedome c. 16. vers 9. saith the bitings of Locusts and of flies killed them neither was there found any remedy for their life Vers. 7. servants the nobles and counsellors of Egypt a snare that is a destruction by the plagues that he bringeth vpon us This word snare usually signifieth the meanes of destruction as Exod 23.
obedience which wee all owe unto the Lord and from which no persecution or tyranny should stay us And the not leaving of an hoofe behinde signified their full departure out of Egyptian bondage leaving nothing to tempt or occasion them to returne thither againe which God after forbade them Deut. 17. 16. and 28. 68. Hos. 9. 3. Vers. 27. made strong that is hardned as the Greeke translateth See Exod. 4. 21. would not or was not perswaded consented not to send them notwithstanding all these plagues This word is not used in all this historie untill now it setteth forth Pharaohs wilfulnesse Vers. 28. no more Hebr. adde not to see so in the verse following Here Pharaoh is inraged against Moses and more fully manifesteth his hardnesse of heart unto whom Moses answereth with no lesse courage and faith in God not fearing as Paul saith the wrath of the king but induring as seeing him who is invisible Heb. 11. 27. Therefore ere hee went out of his presence he denounceth the last plague in the chapter following and departed neuer seeing him more As Pharaoh by all these plagues is not bettered but worse hardned so when the beasts throne and kindome is darkened they gâ—â—â— their tongues for paine and blaspheme the God of heaven because of their paines and their sores and repent not of their deed Rev. 16. 10. 11. Vers. 29. well or right the Greeke translateth as thou hast said So it was not an approbation of Pharaohs evill speech but a signification that it should so come to passe Wherein Moses shewed great faith in God and courage against the king whose wrath he feared not as the Apostle observeth in Hebr. 11. 27. For before his departure hee threatneth the last plague and goeth out very angry Exod. 11. 4. 8. CHAP. XI 1. Gods message to the Israelites to borrow jewels of their neighbours the Egyptians 4 Moses threatneth Pharaoh with the death of all the First-borne in Egypt 9 Pharaohs heart is hardened still ANd Iehovah said unto Moses Yet one plague will I bring upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt afterwards hee will send you away from hence when hee shall send you away he shall thrusting thrust you out from hence altogether Speake now in the eares of the people let every man aske of his neighbour and every woman of her neighbour jewels of silver and jewels of gold And Iehovah gave the people grace in the eyes of the Egyptians also the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt in the eyes of Pharaohs servants and in the eyes of the people And Moses said thus saith Iehovah About midnight will I goe out into the midst of Egypt And every first-borne in the land of Egypt shall die from the first-borne of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne even to the first-borne of the bond-woman that is behinde the mill and every first borne of beasts And there shall bee a great crie in all the land of Egypt such as there hath beene none like it nor shall bee like it any more But against any of the sons of Israel shall not a dogge move his tongue against man or beast that ye may know how Iehovah maruellously severeth between the Egyptians and Israel And all these thy servants shall come downe unto mee and bow downe themselves unto me saying Goe out thou and all the people that is at thy feet and after that I will goe out and hee went out from Pharaoh in heat of anger And Iehovah said unto Moses Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh and Iehovah made strong the heart of Pharaoh and he sent not away the sonnes of Israel out of his land Annotations SAid or had said before he went last unto Pharaoh being called Exod. 10. 24. therefore ere he departeth out of his presence hee denounceth this last plague as appeareth by the 8. verse following thrusting thrust that is earnestly and hastily thrust as came to passe Exod. 12. 31. 33. The Greeke translateth with all rejection he shall reject or cast you out and as the Chaldee saith with full rejection Vers. 2. in the eares The Greeke addeth privily the people the Israelites his neighbour an Egyptian this was signified at the first Exod. 3. 22. jewels or vessels instruments of all sorts These they borrowed but never restored Gods extraordinary commandement was their warrant as it was unto Abraham for the killing of his sonne Gen. 22. and it was a recompence of their labours wherewith they had served the Egyptians Vers. 3. grace that is favour Hebr. the grace of the people which the Greeke translateth grace to his people see the notes on Exod. 3. 21. and Gen. 39. 21. Verse 4. said to Pharaoh before he went out of his presence verse 8. and Exod. 10. 29. I goe out the Chaldee saith I will be revealed this God did by his Angell that destroyed them Exod. 12. 23. And this going out as the like phrase of passing through in Exod. 12. 12. is meant for evill unto Egypt unto which the Scriptures elsewhere have reference as in Amos 5. 17. I will passe through thee saith the Lord. Vers. 5. on his throne that is which shall reigne after him the Chaldee explaineth it which shall sit upon the throne of his kingdome And the holy text so explaineth it selfe as his throne 1 Chron. 17. 12. is the throne of his kingdome 2 Sam. 7. 13. and to sit on the throne is to reigne in stead of another 1 Kin. 3. 6. with 2 Chron. 1. 8. and a man upon the throne 1 King 9. 5. is expounded to be a ruler 2 Chron. 7. 18. behinde the mill or after the mill stones that is in prison grinding at the mill as is explained in Exod. 12. 29. Iudg. 16. 21. Esa. 47. 1. 2. and she is said to be behinde or after it for thrusting it before them as they wrought Vers. 7. move that is they shall not have the least let or disturbance See the like in Ios. 10. 21. The dog signifieth the wicked Psal. 22. 17. 21. that such should not move their tongue is according to that saying Iniquitie shall stop her mouth Iob 5. 16. Psal. 1â—7 42. severeth Greeke glorifieth see Exodus 8. 22. V. 8. servants the Counsellors Nobles Courtiers These compelled by the plague should bow down to Moses so greatly would God honour his servant So God promiseth his Church that Kings and Queenes should bow downe thereto with their face towards the earth c. Esay 49. 23. at thy feete following thee the Greeke translateth it whom thou leadest the Chaldee with thee heat or inflammation of anger Though Moses was a very meeke man above all the men that were upon the earth Numb 12. 3. yet now in the Lords cause with whom Pharaoh had so often mocked hee is very wroth and so the king and hee doe part angry each with other as
Greeke and Chaldee translate gathered this explaineth the former word in verse 19. Verse 21. set not his heart that is regarded not See Exod. 7. 23. he left or he also left But the word also or and may be omitted as is shewed on Gen. 8. 6. Vers. 23. gave voices that is sent noyses of thunder so the Scripture elsewhere speaketh of the voice or noise of thunder Rev. 6. 1. and thunders uttered their voices Revel 10. 3. And although sometime voices and thunders are mentioned distinctly as in Rev. 4. 5. and 8. 5. yet here by voices seeme to be meant thunders So at the giving of the Law Exod. 19. 16. and 20. 18. haile with such God killed also the Canaanites Ios. 10. 11. And unto Iob he saith Hast thou seene the treasures of the Haile which I have reserved against the time of trouble against the day of battell and war Iob. 38. 22. 23. Vnto this seventh plague of Egypt the Lord compareth the seventh plague of the Antichristians where upon the viall poured out into the aire there were voices and thunders and lightnings and earthquake such as was not since men were upon the earth and a great haile of talent weight fell upon men for which they blasphemed God Rev. 16. 17. 18. 21. fire went that is ranne along on the ground as the Greeke translateth it which was extraordinary and most terrible so that not the haile onely but the lightnings and fierie flames consumed their cattle as the Psalmist witnesseth Psal. 78. 47. 48. and 105. 32. 33. So in other judgements haile and fire is mentioned in the destruction of Davids enemies and of the Assyrians Psal. 18. 13. 14. 15. Esay 30. 30. 31. Vers. 24. catching it selfe that is one flash of lightning taking hold of another so the flames infoulding themselves did increase and burne more terribly This word is used onely here and in Ezek. 1. 4. The Greeke translateth it inflaming or setting on fire which word the Apostle useth I am 3. 6. and so the Chaldee saith inflaming it selfe And David calleth it fire of flames Psal. 1 5. 32. a nation or to a nation which the Greek explaineth since there was a nation upon it A like phrase is in Re 16. 18. since men were upon the earth Ver. 25. from man c. that is both men beasts every tree the Gr. saith all the trees meaning of all sorts for there were some left remaining for an after plague Exod. 10. 5. A like phrase is in Act. 10. 12. all four footed beasts c. before in verse 6. Vers. 26. no haile So God had preserved them from former plagues v. 6. and ch 8 ver 22. and so God promiseth to preserve his people in quiet resting places when it shall haile on the forrest Esa. 32. 18. 19. Ver. 28. for it is enough or and let it be enough so the Greeke Interpreters tooke it tâ—anslating and let it cease voices of God that is thunders from God or mighty loud thunders as mountaines of God Psal. 26. 7. are high and strong mounts see the notes on Gen. 30. 5. and 23. 6. The Greeke retaineth the Hebrew phrase no longer stay Hebr. ye shall not adde to stand that is to stay or remaine as the Greek translateth or as the Chaldee expounds it be delaied V. 29. my hands Hebt my palmes that is as the Chaldee explaineth it my hands in prayer So in v. 33. The spreading out of the palmes of the hands was a common gesture used in prayer as kneeling also was signifying a desire that they might receive from God the things they craved so Salomon did when he prayed 2 Chron. 6. 13. and David Psal. 143. 6. and Ezra Ezr. 9. 9. and others Iob 11. 13. Like this was the lifting up of the hands where of see Exod. 17. 11. is Iehovah's or belongeth to Iehovah as the Creator Possessor Governor of all things doing whatsoever he pleaseth in heavens earth seas c. Psal. 135. 6. Of this sentence there is often mention and great use in the Scriptures see Deut. 10. 14. 15. Psal. 24. 1. c. 1 Cor. 10. 26. 28. V. 30. will not yet feare this the event shewed to be true v. 35. Hereby it appeareth that the prayers of the faithful may remove temporary plagues even from the wicked and impenitent Compare 1 King 18. 42. 45. Exod 32 11. 14. 34. 35. V. 31. in the eare the Hebrew Abib signifieth a greene eare of corne with the stalke Levit. 2. 14. Of it the month when corde was newly ripe is called Abib where of see Exod. 13. 4. bolled or in the stalke the Greeke translateth it seeding V. 32. â—ye or the graine called Zea or Spelt in Hebrew Cussemeth of this is mention also in Ezek. 4. 9. Esay 28. 25. The Hebrew Doctors count it a kinde of wheat as Maimony sheweth in treat of Leven ch 5. S. 1. hidden Hebrew darke or obscure that is hid under ground not to be seen the Greeke translateth it lateward Vers. 33. haile ceased This sheweth the effect of Moses faith and prayer the Apostle noteth the like of Elias who prayed and it rained not on the earth by the space of three yeeres and sixe moneths and he prayed againe and the heaven gaveraine Iam. 5. 17. 18. This is written for our comfort for they were men subject to like passions as we are The same is to be observed in Exod. 10. 18. 19. and the other plagues which Moses by prayer tooke away Vers. 34. made heavie that is obstinate and hard See Exod. 7. 14. Vers. 35. waxed strong was made fast and hard see Exod. 4. 21. by the hand that is by the ministerie or prophesie of Moses who had signified so much before verse 30. So Gods word came by the hand of Haggai Hag. 1. 1. by the hand of Malachy Mal. 1. 1. and by the hand of all the Prophets 2 King 17. 13. that is by them as his ministers and instruments And the hand of the Lord sometime is the spirit of prophecie 2 King 3. 15. CHAP. X. 1. God sheweth Moses wherefore he hardned Pharaohs heart 3 Locusts are threatned to bee sent 7 Pharaoh moved by his servants inclineth to let Israel goe but changeth his minde 12 The eighth plague Locusts come upon Egypt 16 Pharaoh confesseth his sinns asketh forgivenesse and desireth Moses prayer 19 The Locusts are taken away and Pharaohs heart is hardened 21 Darkenesse the ninth plague is sent upon Egypt 24 Pharaoh would send Israel away but stay their cattell 25 Moses refuseth to leave a hoofe behind 27 Pharaoh is hardned and forbiddeth Moses on paine of death to see his face any more 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 AND Iehovah said unto Moses Goe in unto Pharaoh for I have made heavie his heart and the heart of his seruants that I may set these my signes in the midst of him And that thou maist tell in the eares of thy sonne and of thy sonnes soâ—â—e the things
And it figured Christ his guidance and protection of his Church travelling through this world unto his heavenly rest as it is said The Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Sion and upon her assemblies a cloud and smoake by day and the shinning of a flaming fire by night for upon all the glory shall be a covering c. Esay 4. 5. 6. of fire the same dark cloud which shadowed them by day was also fire and gave them light by night Exodus 14. 19. 20. 24. So Christ baptised the Israelites in the cloud with the Holy Ghost and with fire 1 Cor. 10. 2. Matt. 3. 11. Esay 4. 2. 4. 5. Therefore Israel in faith did betake themselves under the shadow of Gods Majestie in this cloud and Moses sanctified the action by prayer Numb 9. 17. 18. 19. 23. and 10. 34. 36. 1 Cor. 10. 1. CHAP. XIIII 1 God instructeth the Israelites in their journey 5 Pharaoh pursueth after them 10 The Israelites are sore afraid and murmur 13 Moses comforteth them 15 God instructeth Moses to leade the people forward and with his hand and rod to divide the Sea for Israel to goe thorow 19 Gods Angell and cloud remove behinde the campe 21 The Israelites passe thorow the red Sea 23 The Egyptians follow them into the Sea 24. The Lord out of the cloud troubleth the Egyptians 26. Hee biddeth Moses stretch his hand over the Sea 27. It returneth to his strength and drowneth the Egyptians AND Iehovah spake unto Moses saying Speake unto the sonnes of Israel that they turne and encampe before Pi-hahiroth betweene Migdol and the Sea before Baal-zephon over-against it shall yee encampe by the Sea And Pharaoh will say of the sons of Israel They are intangled in the land the Wildernesse hath shut them in And I will make strong the heart of Pharaoh and hee shall follow after them and I will bee honoured upon Pharaoh and upon all his Host and the Egyptians shall know that I am Iehovah And they did so And it was told the King of Egypt that the people fled and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people and they sayd Why have we done this that wee have sent away Israel from serving us And hee bound his Charet and tooke his people with him And he tooke sixe hundred chosen Charets and all the Charets of Egypt and Captaines over every one of them And Iehovah made strong the heart of Pharaoh King of Egypt and hee followed after the sonnes of Israel and the sonnes of Israel went out with a high hand And the Egyptians followed after them and overtoke them encamping by the Sea all the horses the Charets of Pharaoh and his horse-men and his Army beside Pi-hahiroth before Baal-zephon And Pharaoh drew nigh and the sonnes of Israel lift up their eyes and behold the Egyptian marched after them and they were-sore afraid and the sonnes of Israel cryed out unto Iehovah And they said unto Moses Because there were no graves at all in Egypt hast thou taken us away to die in the wildernesse wherefore hast thou done this unto us to bring us forth out of Egypt Is not this the word which wee spake unto thee in Egypt saying Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians For it had beene better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wildernesse And Moses said unto the people Feare yee not stand still and see the salvation of Iehovah which he will doe for you to day for the Egyptians whom ye have seene to day yee shall not againe see them any more for ever Iehovah will fight for you and you shall hold your peace And Iehovah said unto Moses Wherefore criest thou out unto me Speake unto the sonnes of Israel that they goe forward And thou lift up thy rod and stretch out thy hand over the Sea and cleave it and the sonnes of Israel shall goe in to the midst of the Sea on dry ground And I behold I will make strong the heart of the Egyptians and they shall goe in after them and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh and upon all his army upon his charets and upon his horsemen And the Egyptians shall know that I am Iehovah when I am honoured upon Pharaoh upon his charets and upon his horse-men And the Angell of God which went before the campe of Israel removed and went behind them and the pillar of the cloud removed from before them and stood behind them And it came betweene the Campe of the Egyptians and the Campe of Israel it was a cloud and darknesse and it made light the night and the one came not neere the other all the night And Moses stretched out his hand over the Sea and Iehovah caused the Sea to goe backe by a strong East winde all the night and made the sea dry land and the waters were cloven And the sonnes of Israel went in to the midst of the sea upon the drie ground and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand and on their left And the Egyptians followed and went in after them all Pharaohs horses his charets and his horse-men into the midst of the 〈◊〉 And it was in the morning watch that 〈◊〉 looked unto the campe of the Egyptians in the pillar of fire and of the cloud and troubled the campe of the Egyptian And tooke off their charet wheeles and led them heavily and the Egyptians said Let us flee from the face of Israel for Iehovah fighteth for them against the Egyptians And Iehovah said unto Moses Stretch out thy hand over the sea and the waters shall returne upon the Egyptian upon his charets and upon his horse-men And Moses stretched out his hand over the Sea and the sea returned to his strength at the looking forth of the morning and the Egyptians fled against it and Iehovah shooke off the Egyptians into the midst of the sea And the waters returned and covered the charets and the horse-men with all the armie of Pharaoh that came after them into the Sea there remained not so much as one of them But the sonnes of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of the sea and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand and on their left And Iehovah saved Israel in that day out of the hand of the Egyptians and Israel saw the Egyptians dead vpon the sea shore And Israel saw the great hand which Iehovah did upon the Egyptians and the people feared Iehovah and they beleeved in Iehovah and in Moses his servant Annotations PI-hahiroth or the mouth of Hiroth that is the straight or passage betweene the mountaines of Hiroth for in Numb 33. 8. the word Pi that is Mouth is left out of the name Into these streights did God lead Israel both to free them from war with the Philistians Exod. 13. 17. 18. and to give the Egyptians occasion hereby to pursue them as the verses
love thee and will blesse thee and multiply thee and he will blesse the fruit of thy wombe and the fruit of thy land thy corne and thy new wine and thy new oyle the increase of thy kine and the flockes of thy sheepe upon the land which hee sware unto thy fathers to give unto thee Blessed shalt thou be above all peoples there shall not be a barren male or a barren female among thee or among thy cattell And Iehovah will take away from thee all sicknesse and all the evill diseases of Egypt which thou knowest hee will not put upon thee but will lay them upon all that hate thee And thou shalt cat up all the peoples which Iehovah thy God giveth unto thee thine eye shall not spare them neither shalt thou serve their gods for that will be a snare unto thee If thou shalt say in thine heart These nations are moe than I how shall I be able to dispossesse them Thou shalt not bee afraid of them remembring thou shalt remember that w ch Iehovah thy God did unto Pharaoh and unto all Egypt The great tentations which thine eye saw and the signes and the wonders and the strong hand and the stretched-out arme with w ch Iehovah thy God brought thee out so will Iehovah thy God do unto all peoples of whose faces thou art afraid And also Iehovah thy God will send the hornet among them untill they perish that are left and that hide themselves from thy face Thou shalt not be affrighted at their faces for Iehovah thy God 〈◊〉 the midst of thee a great God a fearful And Iehovah thy God will plucke out these nations from thy face by little and little thou shalt not be able to consume them suddenly lest the wilde beasts of the field multiply upon thee But Iehovah thy God will deliver theÌ„ before thy face and will destroy them with a great destruction untill they be wasted out And hee will deliver their Kings into thine hand and thou shalt destroy their name from under the heavens there shall not a man stand before thy face untill thou have wasted them out The graven images of their gods shall yee burne with fire thou shalt not desire the silver and gold that is on them nor take it unto thee left thou be snared therein for it is an abomination to Iehovah thy God And thou shalt not bring an abomination unto thine house lest thou be a cursed thing like it detesting thou shalt detest it and abhorring thou shalt abhorre it for it is a cursed thing Annotations CHethite that is as the Chaldee explaines them Chethites Gâ— gâ—siteâ— c. See the notes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 10. 16. Here Moses shewe◠〈◊〉 her 〈◊〉 whereby Is 〈…〉 might be drawâ—â— from the love and 〈…〉 diente of God even by communi 〈◊〉 〈…〉 h â—dolaters and their abomiâ—qtions which therefore they ought carefully to avoyd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that 〈◊〉 Paul also mentioneth in Act. 1â— 19. in rehearsing them the Scripture sometime 〈…〉 h â—o◠〈◊〉 fewer Gen. 15. 19. Eâ—â—d 23 l 23. 〈◊〉 a fâ—ll and perfect number Ase 〈…〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth the many enemies of 〈◊〉 Church 〈◊〉 God will subdue though they 〈◊〉 migh 〈…〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for his strength is made perfect 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Cor. 12. 9. Vers. 2. before thee that is as the Gâ—â—â—ke explai 〈◊〉 here and in veâ— â—3 into thâ—â—◠〈…〉 ds So in D 〈…〉 23. 14. 〈◊〉 uttâ—r â—y destroy as acâ—â—rsâ—d or ana 〈…〉 zed see the notes on Exod. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Com 〈◊〉 with this Law Exod. 34. 11 1â— c. Vers. 3. make mariages or â—oyne in affinitie by 〈◊〉 of 〈…〉 ge and this concerned not the seven 〈◊〉 onely but all heathens Eâ—r 9 1. â—2 The Hebrewes say An Israelâ—te that lyâ—t◠〈…〉 th an 〈◊〉 of any other nation by way of 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 Is 〈…〉 〈…〉 sse that so lyeth with 〈◊〉 â—â—athen man they 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 â—â—e b 〈…〉 en by the Law Deut. 7. 5. whether it 〈◊〉 of the seven nations or of any other peoples it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 prohibition And so it is expounded by Ezra c. Maimony in Issurei biah chap. 12. sect 1. Vers. 4. from after me that is from following me and my Law The Gâ—â—eke translateth from me the Chaldee from after my feare other gods the Chaldee explaines it the idols of the peoples This was fulfilled even in Solomon the wise who clave in love unto strange women and they turned away his heart after other gods and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God 1. King 11. 2. 4. will be kindled so it was against Solomon for this sinne the LORD was angry with him because his heart was turned from the LORD the God of Israel 〈◊〉 King 11. 9. Vers. 5. pillars or statues or standing images see Exod. 23. 24. and Levit. 26. 1. This Law was executed by the good Kings of Iudah 2 King 18. 4. and 23. 6. 14. gro 〈…〉 or trees planted for religious use whereof see the notes on Exod. 34. 13. here they are commanded to be 〈◊〉 downe in Deut. 12. 3. to be burnt with fire The Hebrewes say A tree which is planted at the first to be served or worshipped is unlawful for any use and that is Asherah the grove spoken of in the Law If it were not planted for religious use at the first but that afterward some man had worshipped it though all the body or stock be not unlawful al the boughes and the leaves and the branches and the fruits â—hat it bringeth forth all the while that it is worshipped they are unlawfull for any use A tree under which they have seâ— upon idol all the while that it 〈◊〉 under it the trge 〈◊〉 unlawfull for any use if the Idoll â—e taken from under it then it is lawfull because it was not the trâ—â— it selfe which was worshipped M 〈…〉 in treat of Idolotâ—ie â—â—ap 8. sect 3. 4. 〈◊〉 images to wit◠〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as is expressed in 〈…〉 s. 25. Vers. 6. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chaldee translateth it be 〈◊〉 pro 〈…〉 is 〈◊〉 treasure 〈◊〉 which is d 〈…〉 to any see Exod. 19. 〈◊〉 This space proceeding from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈…〉 lled in Christ Who gaâ—â— himselfe 〈◊〉 us that hee himselfe a peo 〈…〉 people 〈◊〉 of good workâ—◠〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vers. 7. 〈◊〉 his love o◠〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vers. 8. the oath Gods irrevocaâ—â—e promise proceeding from â—grace of which there is often that by two immuâ—able things in which it was impossible for God â—o 〈◊〉 â—ee might 〈◊〉 a strong consolation Heb. 6. 17 18. ser 〈…〉 in Greeke and Chaldee ser 〈…〉 oâ— bo 〈…〉 A figure of our deliverance from these 〈◊〉 of â—â—nne and of men Ioh. 8. 34. 36. 〈◊〉 6. 14. 16 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 20. 1 Gor. 7. 〈◊〉 3. Vers. 9. Know therefore Hebr. And thou shalt know so in v. 11 See the notes on Gen. 31. 44. that love him see the notes on Exod. 20. 6. Vnto this
Drawen-out What name his parents had given him before is not recorded I drew Hebrew Masithi of this the childe had his name and it is not used againe in Scripture but in Davids case who saith of God he drew me out of many waters Psal. 18. 17. waters signifying troubles Vers. 11. growen great both in yeeres and in authoritie being full sorty yeeres old and mightie in words and in deeds Act. 7. 23. 22. There fore In those dayes may hee read After those daies as in verse 23. went-out it came into his heart to visit his brethren the sons of Israel Act. 7. 23. and hee after this renounced his honours and pleasures in Pharaohs Court and associated him-selfe to Gods afflicted people for by faith heerefused to bee called the sonne of Pharaohs daughter chosing rather to to suffer affliction with the people of God then to injoy the pleasures of sinne for a season esteeming the reproach of Christe greater riches then the treasures in Egypt for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward Heb. 11. 24. 25. 26. saw their 〈◊〉 he Greek translateth considered their labour in Chaldee their ser 〈…〉 de Vers. 12. smote that is killed him as is shewed on Gen. 14. 17 so defending and avenging his oppressed brother supposing that his brethren would have vnderstood how that God by his hand would deliver them but they understood not Act. 7. 24. 25. And because his calling was not yet manifested he did this action secretly and hid the Egyptian in the sand From this action of Moses the Iew Doctors did gather a law that if an heathen smote an Israelite he was to die Maimony in Misneh tom 4. treat of Hurt and dammage chap. 5. S. 3. Vers. 13. the second day the day next after the former Act. 7. 26. so prosecuting diligently the worke which God had secretly called him unto to the wicked one that is to him that did the wrong as the Greeke translateth it and Stephen approveth the same saying The next day hee shewed him-selfe unto them as they strove and earnestly exhorted them unto peace saying Sirs ye are brethren why doe ye wrong one to another Act. 7. 26. Vers. 14. he that did his neighbour wrong hee thrust Moses away Act. 7. 27. a man a prince or constituted thee a prince omitting the word man as Stephen following the Greeke version doth See also Gen. 13. 8. This refusall of Moses by one is imputed to the rest of the Israelites Act. 7. 35. And God for their unthankfulnesse withdrew Moses from them 40. yeeres before he sent him againe to deliver them verse 23. sayest thou to wit in thy heart as Gen. 27. 41. that is intendest thou thinkest thou or wilt thou kill me as the Greeke translateth it and so Stephen alleadgeth it Act. 7. 28. And other scriptures have the like phrase 2 Sam. 21. 16. the Egyptian the Greek addeth yesterday and so it is in Act. 7. 28. the thing Hebr. the word Gr. this word So in the verse following Vers. 15. fled at this saying Act. 7. 29. Of this first departure as well as of the second some doe understand that speech of the Apostle By faith Moses left Egypt not fearing the wrath of the king for he indured as seeing him who is invisible Heb. 11. 27. dwelt or seated namely as a stranger Act. 7. 29. and so here in vers 22. and Exod. 12. 40. Midian Madiam as the Greeke calleth it or Madian as in Act. 7. 29. a people that came of Madian the sonne of Abraham Gen. 25. 2. Vers. 16. Priest or Prince as the Chaldee translateth it but the Greeke saith priest See Gen. 41. 45. father the Greeke addeth his name Iothor that is Iethor as Exod. 3. 1. Vers. 17. them the daughters as the Greeke version plainly sheweth but the Hebrew here and after is masculine as if it were them men which some understand to be the shepherds that looked to the flocke under these women but the Hebrew putteth sometime one gender for another see the notes on Exod. 1. 21. saved in Greeke delivered them daughters Compare this fact of Moses with Iakobs Gen. 29. 9. 10. Vers. 18. Reguel in Greeke Ragouel hee was a Madianite father to Hobab or Iethro the next father of these daughters Num. 10. 29. All grand-fathers and 〈◊〉 are called fathers 2 Kin. 14. 3. 16. 2. 18. 3. 〈◊〉 so soon Heb. hastned to come Vers. 19. drawing drew that is drew readily and enough the Greeke saith and drew for us Vers. 20. now or at this time it being so Iate The Greeke translateth it thus Vers. 21. was content or began as the word is Englished Deut. 1. 5. The Greeke omitteth it saying And Moses dwelt with the man and the Holy Ghost often omitteth the like as some Evangelists say of Iesus he began to say Luk. 12. 1. Mark 13. 5. another writeth Iesus said Matth. 16. 6. and 24. 4. so he began to cast out Mark 11. 15. that is he cast out Mat. 21. 12. he began to crie Mark 10. 47. that is he cried Luke 18. 38. they began to beseech Mark 5. 17. that is they besought him Matth. 8. 34. and sundry the like gave Zipporah to wife as the Greeke addeth and calleth her Zemphora as the letter m is often put in such Greeke names as Abbakuk the Prophet is Ambâ—koum in Greek Ab. 1. 1. so Chiun Amos 5. 26. is Remphan Act. 7. 43. the interpreters mistaking a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 R. for b 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 C. and interposing M. And in the Hebrew Berodach 2 King 20. 12. is called also Merodach Esa. 39. 1. that such change of letters should not seeme strange unto us Concerning this wife of Moses his sister and brother afterwards spake against him Num. 12. 1. where she is called a Cushite Vers. 22. Gershon by interpretation A desolate stranger the reason whereof followeth Here the Greeke addeth And she conceived againe and bare a second sonne and he called his name Eliezer saying for the God of my father is my helper and hath delivered me from the hand of Pharaoh This addition is borrowed from Exod. 18. 4. Vers. 23. after those many daies that is as Stephen openeth it when forty yeeres were expired Act. 7. 30. Exod. 7. 7. So the Hebrew Doctors also reckon the time they say Moses was Iethroes shepherd 40. yeeres and the wilde beasts spoiled not his sheepe but they were fruitfull and multiplied greatly Pirkei R. Eliezer c. 40. Thus Moses had lived 40. yeeres in Pharaohs court was 40. yeeres a stranger shepherd in Midian and after this he fed Gods people Israel 40. yeeres Act. 7. 36. Deut. 8. 2. and 34. 7. Here the Hebrew c 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In is rightly translated in Greeke After as it elsewhere also plainely signifieth Numb 28. 26. So in the new Testament Marke 13. 24. in those daies that is after them as is explained Matth. 24. 29.
them as in Num. 23. 3. 4. 15. 16. where the Greek translateth it appeare Here the Greeke version is he hath called us three dates journey Hebr. three daies way This was to mount Horeb where they should serve God verse 12. which it seemeth was b 〈…〉 three daies journey from Egypt had they gone the direct way but because of troubles and feares they were led about Exod. 13. 17. 18. so that they came not thither till the third moneth Exod. 19. 1. Of the mysterie of this number three see the notes on Gen. 22. 4. wildernesse the globe of the earth is of three parts inhabited land sea and wildernesse which is a place of wilde beasts Mark 1. 13. without inhabitant without way to goe in without water even the shadow of death it selfe Ier. 2. 6. Deut. 8. 15. Psal. 107. 4. 5. into such a place must Israel goe because they might not sacrifice to God in Egypt Exod. 8. 25. 26. Such was the place of Christs tentation 40 daies Luk. 4. 1. 2. and of Israelâ— 40 yeeres Deut. 8. 2. where God fed and guided them as he did also the woman that fled into the wildernesse from the presente of the serpent Rev. 12. 14. Vers. 1â— no not Hebr. and not meaning though he should be s 〈…〉 tten with many plagues yet hee would not let them goe willingly Or and not may 〈◊〉 here for If not that is but by strong hand as the Greeke here translateth it the Chaldee also saith but for strong feare For tenne plagues were sent on Pharaoh before hee would let them goe Exod. 11. 1 So and is put for if in Exod. 4. 23. Num. 12. 14. Vers. 20. my hand the Chaldee saith the plague of my strength that is my strong plague Vers. 21. grace that is favour the Hebrew phrase is the grace of this people which the Greeke translateth will give grace to this people that is will cause them to be favoured The Chaldee saith I will give this people to mercies as in Psal. 106. 46. See the like in Gen. 39. 21. Exod. 11. 2. Vers. 22. jewels or instruments vessels Thus the promise made to Abraham in Gen. 15. 14. was now to be fulfilled spoile So Ezek. 39. 10. they shall spoile those that spoiled them CHAP. IV. 1 Moses doubting that he should not be beleeved is confirmed by miracles of his rod turned to a serpent 6 and his hand leprous 9 Waters should also be turned to blood 10 Moses maketh excuses that he might not be sent 14 God is angry and appointeth Aaron to assist him 18 Moses getteth leave of Iethro to depart into Egypt 21 The Lord rehearseth his message to Pharaoh 24 Hee meeteth Moses in the Inâ—e and seeketh to kill him 25 Zipporah circumciseth her son and he letteth him goe 27 God sendeth Aaron to meet Moses 29 Moses and Aaron doe their message unto Israel 31 They beleeve and are thankefull ANd Moses answered and said But behold they will not beleeve mee nor hearken unto my voice for they will say Iehovah hath not appeared unto thee And Iehovah said unto him What is that in thy hand and he said a rod. And hee said Cast it on the ground and hee cast it on the ground and it was turned to a serpent and Moses fled from before it And Iehouah said unto Moses Put forth thy hand take it by the taile and he put forth his hand caught it and it was turned to a roâ— in his hand That they may beleeve that Iehovah the God of their fathers the God of Abraham the God of Isaak and the God of Iakob hath appeared unto thee And Iehovah said further more unto him Put now thy hand into thy bosome and hee put his hand into his bosome and he tooke it out and behold his hand was leprous as snow And hee said Returne thy hand into thy bosome and hee returned his hand into his bosome and hee tooke it out of his bosome and behold it was turned as his flesh And it shall bee if they will not beleeve thee nor heark 〈…〉 to the voice of the first signe that they will beleeve the voice of the latter signe And it shall be if they will not beleeve also these two signes not hearken to thy voice that thou shalt take of the waters of the river and powre upon the dry land and the waters shall be which thou shalt take out of the river even they shall be turned to blood upon the drie land And Moses said unto Iehovah Oh my Lord I am not a man of words either from daies heretofore or since thou hast spoken unto thy servant but I am of an heauy mouth and of an heavy tongue And Iehovah said unto him VVho hath made the mouth of man or who maketh the dumbe or the deafe or the open-eyed or the blind have not I Iehovah And now goe and I will be with thy mouth and will teach thee what thou shalt speake And he said Oh my Lord send I pray thee by the hand thou shouldest send And the anger of Iehovah was kindled against Moses and hee said Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother I know that speaking he can speake and also behold he is comming forth to meet thee and when he seeth thee hee will bee glad in his heart And thou shalt speake unto him and shalt put the words in his mouth and I will bee with thy mouth and with his mouth and will teach you what you shall doe And hee shall speake for thee unto the people and he shall be even he shall be to thee for a mouth and thou shalt be to him for a God And this rod shalt thou take in thy hand with the which thou shalt doe the signes And Moses went and returned to Iether his father in law and said unto him Let me goe I pray thee and returne unto my brethren which are in Egypt and see whether they be yet alive and Iethro said to Moses Goe in peace And Iehovah said unto Moses in Midian Goe returnd into Egypt for all the men are dead that sought thy soule And Moses tooke his wife and his sonnes and made them ride upon an asse and hee returned to the land of Egypt and Moses tooke the rod of God in his hand And Iehovah said unto Moses When thou goest to returne into Egypt see all the wonders which I have put in thy hand that thou doe them before Pharaoh and I will make strong his heart and he shall not send away the people And thou shalt say unto Phaâ—â—oh 〈◊〉 saith Iehovah Israel is my sonne my first-borne And I say unto thee Send away my sonne that he may serve mee and if thou refuse to send him away behold I will stay thy sonne thy first-borne And it was in the way in the Inne that Iehovah met him and sought to kill him And Zipporah tooke a sharpe stone and cut off the supernuous foreskinne of her sonne and cast it at
these two signifieth in Ezek. 3. 6. The Greek translateth of a smal voice of a slow tongue the Chaldee of a heavy speech and of a deep tongue This as other things in Moses may have reference to the effect of the Law which he administred as on the contrary the Psalmist prophesying of Christ had his tongue the penne of a speedy writer Psal. 45. 2. and the Spirit which is received not by the works of Moses law but by the hearing of faith in Christ Gal. 3. 2. causeth prophesie and other words of wisdome and knowledge Act. 2. 18. 1. Gor. 12. 8. 10. causeth the lips of those that are asleepe to speake Song 7. 9. By the Hebrew cannons no Priest that stammered lisped or was of an heavy mouth or tongue might lift up his hands to blesse the people Maimony in Misneh treat of Prayer chap. 15. S 〈…〉 Soe the notes on Num. 6. 23. Vers. 11 hath made or as the Greek translateth hath given Heb put the mouth to 〈◊〉 open eyed or open cared for the Hebrew word signifieth both these Esa. 42. 7. 20. and may have reference here to both The Greeke tranflateth the seeing Compare Psal. 146. 8 Esa. 61. 1. and 33. 5. 6. Vers. 12. I will be The Chaldee expounds it my word shall be the Greeke I will open thy mouth will tâ—aoh by my spirit as Christ in like manner promiseth his Apostles Matth. 10. 19. 20. Mark 13. 11. Luke 12. 11. 12. Vers. 13. by the hand thou shouldest that is by his hand or ministery whom thou shouldest send as being fitterthand or by the hand of any other whom thou wilt send The Chaldee and That gum Ierusalemy translate by the hand of him whom it is meet to send and the Greeke 〈◊〉 choose anâ— then able man whom thou wilt send Moses 〈◊〉 greatnesse of the worke would with draw his shoulder through infirmity God hereby 〈…〉 wing the imperfection of Moses administration and impossibility of the law to bring men to perfection when Moses could not bring Israel into the promised land 〈◊〉 3. 24. 25. 27. 28. Romans 8. 3. Hebrewes 7. 19. The hand of one is usually put for his ministerie as Moses now was sâ—m of God by the hand of the Angel which appeared to him in the bush 〈◊〉 7. 35. See Exodus 9. 35. Psal. 97 2â— Hag. 1. 1. Mal. 1. 1. Vers. 24. speaking speake that is speake well and eloquently Thus God distributeth his gifts by measure diversly to one is given by the spirit the word of wisedome to 〈…〉 ther the word of knowledge to another kindes of tongues to another the interpretation of tongues c. 1 Cor. 12. 8. 10. So among the Apostles 2 Cor. 11. 6. and 10. 10. Mar. 3. 17. Of this Aaron see after in Exod. 6. 20. 26. Vers. 15. the words which I have spoken to thee as the Greeke saith my words God signifying hereby that the Priests which came of Aaron should receive their doctrine from the Law which was given by Moses as Ezek. 44. 24. Mal. 4. 4 Levit. 6. 8. 9. I will be the Chaldee faith my word shall be the Greeke I will open thy mouth as vers 12. Verse 16. hee shall bee or it shall bee that hee shall be the word is doubled for more vehemency and assurance a mouth that is a spokes-man or as the Chaldee saith an interpreter In Exod 7. 1. he is callled his Prophet a God the Chaldee saith Rab that is a Master and the Ierusalemy Thargum addeth an inquirer of Doctrine from before the Lord. The Greeke translateth in things pertaining to God which very phrase Paul useth in Hebrewes 5. 1. The Hebrew Elohim God is after attributed to Iudges and Magistrates Exod. 22. 8. 9. Psal. 82. 6. and the reason is rendred by Christ because the word of God is given to them Ioh. 10. 34. 35. Here Moses though the yonger brother Exodus 7. 7. is preferred before Aaron his elder so God oftentimes disposed see Geneâ— 25. 23. and 48. 19. Vers. 17. this rod which was turned into a serpent as the Greeke addeth for explanation In verse 20. it is called the rod of God it was before Moses shepherds staffe Vers. 18. Iether called after Iethro in Greeke Iethor see Exod. 3. 1. in peace or with peace the Greeke translateth with health or welfare Vers. 19. thy saule that is thy life as Genesis 19. 17. So the Chaldee well explaineth it that sought to â—ill thee Though sometime to seeke the soule is taken in the good part as none seeketh for my soule Psal. 142. 5. that is careth for me or for my life yet usually it signifieth seeking to kill one and is sometime explained seeking the soule to take it away as 〈◊〉 Kings 19. 10. This phrase is often used So Matth. 2. 20. Vers. 20. sonnes two Gershom and Eliezer Exodus 18. 3 4. an asse the Greeke translateth 〈◊〉 as moe then one and often the Hebrew putteth the singular for many See Genesis 3. 2. This may argue Moses poore estate as Christs Zichar 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 â—od of God that is which God had appo 〈…〉 him to worke miracles with as verse 3. 17. So the Chaldee explaineth it the rod whereby miracles should be done from before the Lord. So in Exod. 17. 9. Vers. 21. have put or shall p 〈…〉 t in thy hand that is give thee power to doe What wonders signifie see on Exodus 7. 3 make strong or make 〈◊〉 fast 〈◊〉 and hard that hee shall not reâ—ut or yeeld therefore iâ— Exodus 7. 3. God useth another word I will den and so the Greeke translateth this here As before God 〈◊〉 Pharaohs heart to hate his people Psalme 105. 25. so now hee is said to make-strong and to harden his heart and of King Sichon the Lord hardened his spirit and made his heart strong or obstinate Deuteronomie 2. 30. and hardned the hearts of the other Canaanites Ioshua 11. 20. and made fatte and hardened the hearts of the Israelites Esay 6. 10. Iohn 12. 40. and gave them the spirit of slumber Romans 11. 8. As hardnesse is sinne so Pharaoh hardened his owne heart Exodus 9. 34. and so all wicked men Psalme 95. 8. but as it is a judgement and punishment for sinne GOD hardneth using hereunto sundry meanes sometime withdrawing his outward word and workes Psalme 147. 19. 20. Matthew 11. 21. 23. sometime the inward working of his spirit Genesis 6. 3. and sending outward meanes to deceive them 1 Kings 22. 20. 23. or strong delusions to blinde their mindes 2 Thes. 2. 10. 11. Romans 11. 8. 10. or making his word which they abuse to be the favour of death unto them 2 Corinthians 2. 15. 16. 1 Pet. 2. 8. or giving them over to a reprobate minde Romans 1. 28. or to Satan to be blinded and deluded unto destruction 2 Corinthians 4. 4. 1 Kings 22. 22 2 Thessal 2. 9. 12. So God is said to determine and to doe those things but justly
which the wicked of their owne accord doe also rush into most unjustly as Acts 4. 27. 28. 2 Samuel 12. 11. 12. And he hath mercie on whom he will and whom he will bee hardeneth Romans 9. 18. The Hebrew Doctors though they erre about mans free-will yet say that it may be a man sinneth so great a sinne or so many sinnes as judgement is given from the Iudge of truth that vengeance be taken on the sinner for the sinnes thâ—â— he hath done willingly wittingly and that repentance be with-holden from him and leave is not permitted him to 〈◊〉 from his wickednesse but that hee die and perish in the sinne that he hath done This is that which the holy blessed God saith by the hand of Esaias Make the heart of this people fat c. Esa. 6. 10. Likewise heâ— saith But they mocked the messengers of God and despised his words and misused his Prophets untill the wrath of the Lord arose against his people till there was no healing 2 Chro. 36. 16. as if he should say they sinned willingly and multiplied their trespasses till they were condemned to have repentance with-holden froÌ„ them for that is the healing Therefore it is written in the Law And I will make strong the heart of Pharaoh because Pharaâ—h sinned of himselfe first and did evill unto Israel which were strangers in his land as it is said Comâ— on let 〈◊〉 deale wisely with them Exodus 1. 10. hee gave sentence that repentance should bee with-holden from him till vengeance were taken on him Therefore GOD hardened his heart And why then sent his unto him by the hand of Moses saying let my people goe and repent thou when as GOD had said unto him but thou and thy servants I know that yee will not yet feare c. Exodus 9. 30. And indeed for this have I raised thee up c. Exod. 9. 16. c. To the end that he might make knowne to those that come into the world that when God with-holdeth repentance from a sinner heaâ— cannot repent but shall die in his wickednesse which hee did at the first of his owne accord Maimony treat of Repentance chap. 6. S. 3. Whereas the Rabbine saith of repentance that that is the healing we may better say that the forgivenesse of sinnes upon their repentance and faith in God is the healing for whereas it is written lest they should be converted and I should heale them Matth. 13. 15. another Evangelist expoundeth it lest they should bee converted and their sinnes should be forgiven them Mar. 4. 12. With his other doctrine of God with-holding repentance from some sinners we may compare that of the Apostle in Heb. 6. 4. 6. of those whom it is impossible to renew unto repentance Vers. 22. my first borne This sheweth both the right which God had in them and the love which he bare unto them Gen. 22. 2. Psal. 89. 28. 1 Ioh. 3. 1. This grace Israel obtained by adoption in Christ Ioh. 1. 12. Rom. 8. 14. 15. Heb. 12. 23. Hos. 11. 1. And by Israel here is meant the people the sonnes or Church of Israel as all Israel 1 King 8. 62. is in verse 63. all the sonnes of Israel and in 2 Châ—on 7. 4. 5. called all the people So all Israel 2 Chron. 10. 3. is expounded all the Church or congregation of Israel 1 Kings 12. 3. Howbeit as the like speech in Hos. 11. 1. is applied unto Christ himselfe Matth. 2. 15. so is this place by the Hebrew Doctors in their Midras or Comment on Psalme 2. 7. Vers. 23. And I or Therefore I see Gen. 31. 44. say unto thee This manner of speech is with authority as commanding so the Greeke translateth the word in Ios. 11. 9. and say in Luke 9. 54. and 4. 3. is for command and a thing spoken in Gods name 1 Chron. 21. 19. is said to bee commanded 2 Sam. 24. 19. and that which in Mark 7. 13. is called the word of God is in Matth. 15. 6. called his commandement send away that is by thy word let my sonne goe or suffer him to goe to wit willingly as that which in Mark 5. 12. is written Send us unto the swine is in Matthew 8. 31. and Luke 8. 32. Suffer us to goe And it is meant here of letting them goe free out of their servitude as after this word is used in like cases Exodus 21. 26. 27. for Egypt was the house of servants Exodus 20. 1. and 1. 13. thy first borne not onely of Pharaoh but of all the Egyptians as was fulfilled Exodus 12. 29. and upon all the hoast of Pharaoh Exod. 14. 28. Vers. 24. the way towards Egypt Iehovah the Greeke and Chaldee translate the Angell of the Lord. to kill him that is Moses who for neglect of circumcising his sonne was guilty of cutting off by the law of God Genes 17. 14. This severity God used toward Moses who was going to take charge of the Church of God and yet had such corruption in his owne family as that the seale of the righteousnesse of faith in Christ was therein omitted an evill example to all Israel So the Hebrew Doctors as the Zohar upon this place frame a speech from hence that God should say unto Moses Thou art going to deliver Israel and to bring downe a mighty king and thou thy selfe hast cast away my covenant from thee Others of them write that except the tribe of Leviâ— of whom it is said they kept thy covenant Deuteronomie 33. 9. all Israel besides omitted the covenant of circumcision in Egypt and were circumcised there by Moses that they might eat the passeover according to the law Exodus 12. 48. Maimony in Misneh tom 2. in Asure biah chapter 13. S. 2. Vers. 25. sharpe stone or sharpe knife but both Greeke and Chaldee versions call it a stone the Hebrew hath the name of edge or sharpenesse Psal. 89. 44. and a stone-rocke is so called for the sharpenesse of it So in Ios. 5. 2. mak thee knives of edges that is sharpe knives or of stones cast it Hebrew made it touch his feet the Chaldee saith brought it neere before him Hereby Moses feet seeme to be meant howbeit the Ierusalemy Thargum expoundeth it the feet of the Destroyer meaning of the Angell that came to kill Moses The Greeke translateth shee fell at his feet a husband or a bridegroome of bloods that is a bloody bridegroome or husband as a man of bloods 2 Sam. 16. 7. is a cruell bloody man so here Zipporah seemeth in indignation against her husband thus to call him Some thinke the childe is thus called because in the day of the circumcision it is as espoused unto GOD by the seale of the covenant The Chaldee translateth it for the blood of the circumcision let my husband be given me Vers. 26. hee let him goe or left off slaked from him by hee meaning GOD who sought before to kill Moses verse 24. So the Thargum Ierusalemy
signe of their destruction if they obeyed not for the desolation of a Countrey is signified by the dwelling of dragons there Mal. 1. 3. Esay 13. â—0 22. Psal. 44. 20. See also the notes on Exodus 4. 3. Vers. 11. wise men Philosophers of these see Genesis 41. 8. sorcerers or witches such as do bewiteh the senses and minds of men by changing the formes of things to another hue And from the Hebrew Cashaph which hath the signification of changing or turning the Greekes have formed their word Bascaino and the Latines Fascino which is to bewitch it is used for unlawfull devillish Arts and Artizens such as Gods Law condemneth and punisheth with death Deut. 18. 10. Exod. 22. 18. and applyed to false teachers and their crafts Gal. 3. 1. Rev. 18. 23. these Egyptian sorcerers were types of seducers who resist the truth as Iannes and Iambres withstood Moses here 2 Tim. 3. 8. where Paul setteth downe the names of the chiefe of these sorcerers as they were kept in the Iewes private records For so to this day in their Babylonian Thalmud tract Menachoth chap. 9. they shew how Iohanne and Mamre chiefe of the sorcerers of Egypt withstood and mocked Moses saying thou bringest straw into Aphraim as water into the sea for they thought he did his miracles by sorcerie whereas the land of Egypt was full of sorcerers This Mamre was also an Amoritish name Gen. 13. 18. called in Greeke Mambree and by Paul Iambres in 2 Tim. 3. 8. where the Syriacke writeth Ianbres for letters are often changed euen in the same tongue as Merodach Esay 39. 1. or Barodach 2 King 20. 12. Nemuel 1 Chro. 4. 24. or Iemuel Exod. 6. 15. and many the like And that not Paul onely but the Iewes commonly so named them appeareth also by a Chaldee paraphrase of the law that goeth under the name of Ionathan there upon this place of Exodus their names are written Ianis and Iambres and in another Hebrew commentarie on the Law called Thanchuma in fol. 40. they are named Ionos and Iombros Among the heathens also their memorie continued though corrupted for Plinie in nat hist. lib. 30. cap. 1. speaketh of Moses and Iamnes and Cabala or as some read it Iotape whom he calleth Iewes by whom Magicke was used And Origen against Celsus lib. 4. sheweth how Numenius a Pythagorean Philosopher speaketh of Moses miracles in Egypt and his resistance by Iannes and Mambres magicians Apuleius also a Latine Philosopher in his second Apologie mentioneth one Ioannes among the chiefe Magicians that their names as it seemeth were renowmed over all magicians see the notes on Gen. 41. 8. inchantments or secret sleights jugglings A word not used in this sense save here and in verse 22. and it hath the signification of secret and close conveyance or of glistering like the flame of a fire or sword as Gen. 3. 24. where with mens eyes are dazled And by this word God putteth difference betweene Moses miracles which were done in truth and theirs done by flieght or sorcery which were also figures of the signes and lying wonders that Antichrist worketh 2 Thessal 2. 9. whose Church is called Egypt Revel 11. 8. their rods that is their dragons made of rods or if they were all turned to rods againe it was the greater miracle But by comparison with Exod. 4. 4. it is most likely it was a serpent till Aaron tooke it into his hand againe And here Moses and Aaron doe overcome Iannos and Iambres at the first in that wherin they most excelled so they that are of God overcome Antichrist for greater is he that is in them than he that is in the world 1 Ioh. 4 3. 4. Vers. 13. waxed strong or hard both by his own impenitency Rom. 2. 5. and Gods just worke in him Exod. 4. 21. Vers. 14. heavy by reason of the hardnesse of it and so unfit to bee lifted up unto the obedience of my word This heauinesse when it is spoken of eies eares hands heart or the like signifieth the dulnesse and unfitnesse to do that which men ought Gen 48. 10. Zach. 7. 11. Exod. 17. 12. Luk. 21. 34. And this in Pharaoh is after said both to bee done of himselfe Exod. 8. 32. and of God Exod. 10. 1. Vers. 17. I smite Aaron it was that smote vers 19. but God by Moses commanded it therefore he principally smote and the rod is said to bee in his hand The Scripture somtime explaineth this as he called Matt. 20. 32. that is he commanded to be called Mar. 10. 49. and he gave Mar. 15. 45. that is he commanded to be given Matt. 27. 58. See also the notes on Gen. 39. 22. and 48. 22. And God fore-telleth the plague before hee brings it to wame him in mercie but useth the time present I smite or am smiting to signifie judgement to bee at hand So Exod. 8. 2. Ver. 18. be wearied both by digging round about the river for waters as vers 24. and being grieved and loathing the waters turned to blood which they shall not be able to drinke as in vers 21. and so the Greek here translateth they shall not bee able to drinke And this plague being threatned to the Egyptians onely it is to be thought the Israelites in Gosen were free froÌ„ this as from other plagues following Exod. 8. 22. and 9. 26. and 10. 23. And so the Hebrew Doctors say the plague of blood was blood to the Egyptians and water to the Israelites R. Elias in Sepher reshith chocmah treat of Love ch 7. Here God proceedeth in his worke from signes and wonders to plagues and punishments tenne whereof he bringeth upon Egypt before the Israelites were let goe out of their bondage as there are seven plagues wherewith the spirituall Egypt of Antichrists church is smitten in Revelat. 16. These ten plagues the Hebrew Doctors summe up in tenne letters the first of all their names 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whereby they meane Blood Frogs and Lice a Mixed swarme Murraine that beasts annoyd Boyles Haile and Locusts Darknesse thicke and First-borne all destroy'd Vers. 19. gathering together that is place of gathering as the Chaldee expounds it the word which is used in Gen. 1. 10. and implieth lakes peoples pits ditches and vessels as after is explained in the end of this verse See also Levit. 11. 36. vessels this word is expressed in the Chaldee and is necessarily implyed in the Hebr. as a thousand 2 Sam. 8. 4. for a thousand charrets 1 Chron. 18. 4. the first Mat. 26. 17. for the first day Mar. 14. 12. and many the like Vers. 20. he lift up the Greeke explaineth it Aaron lift up his rod. to blood as the Egyptians had shed the blood of the children of Israel drowning them in the river Exod. 1. 22. so in this first plague God rewardeth that by turning their waters into blood which R. Menachem on this place saith signified mercy turned unto them to judgement So upon
the spiritually Egyptians by whose sinne the third part of the sea became blood and of other waters became wormewood Revel 8. 8. 11. there be the like plagues from the phials or cups of Gods Angels as are here by the rod of Gods messengers their sea rivers and fountaines becomming blood they having shed the blood of Saints and Prophets and God giving them blood to drinke for they are worthy Revel 16. 3. 6. Of this plague the Psalmist also speaketh Psal. 78. 44. and 105. 29. Contrariwise God blesseth his people by turning for them the rockes to rivers and fountaines of waters Psal. 78. 15. 16. and 114. 8. and giving them the water of life to drinke Ioh. 4. 10. 14. Rev. 22. 1. 17. Vers. 21. died so in Antichrists sea every living soule dyeth Revel 16. 3. as by their impietie they had caused the third part of such to dye before Revel 8. 9. Contrariwise in the holy land corrupt waters are healed the creatures in them live and fish are multiplied Ezek. 47. 8. 9. stunke whereas the waters of Egypt served them for drinke Ierm 2. 18. there being no raine in the Countrey Deut. 11. 10. 11. God turning them to stinking blood and killing the fish the plague was the more grievous For fishes were their common food Numb 11. 5. the flesh of many beasts they through superstition would not eate of Exodus 8. 26. so that which the Prophet after threatneth was now upon them The fishers mourned and all they that cast angle into the brookes lamented and they that spread nets upon waters languished Esay 19. 8. Vers. 22. did so as before in verse 11. They could by inchantments increase their owne plagues but not ease themselves see Exodus 8. 7. 8. But where had they water to turne into blood either they found some by digging about the river verse 24. or they had some fetched from another place as Gosen see the notes on v. 18. wexed strongs the Greeke saith was hardened see verse 13. Vers. 23. set not that is regarded not nor cared for this wondrous plague so the setting of the heart signifieth carefull regard Exod. 9. 21. Prov. 22. 17. 2 Sam. 18. 3. CHAP. VIII 1 God threatneth Pharaoh if hee send not Israel away to plague his Realme with frogges 5 Aaron stretcheth out his hand and the second plague frogs come out of the waters over all the land 7 The Magicians doe the like 8 Pharaoh sueth to Moses 12 And Moses by praier removeth the frogs away 15 Pharaohs heart is hardned 16 The third plague dust is turned into lice on man and beast 18 The magicians could not doe so yet Pharaoh is hardned 20 God threatneth the fourth plague swarmes of flies upon the Egyptians 22 exempting Israel in Goshen 24 The land is corrupted with the swarmes 25 Pharaoh inclineth to let the people goe 30 Moses by praier removeth the swarmes away 32 Pharaoh is bardned againe AND Iehovah said unto Moses Goe in unto Pharaoh and say unto him thus saith Iehovah send away my people that they may serve me And if thou refuse to send them away behold I smite all thy border with frogs And the river shall abundantly bring forth frogs and they shall come up and enter into thy house and into thy bedchamber and upon thy bed and into the house of thy servants and upon thy people and into thy ovens and into thy troughs of dough And the frogs shall come up upon thee and upon thy people and upon all thy servants And Iehovah sayd unto Moses Say unto Aaron stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streames over the rivers and over the ponds cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt And the Magicians did so with their inchantments and caused frogges to come up upon the land of Egypt And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron and said Intreat ye Iehovah that he may take the frogs from me and from my people and I will send away the people that they may sacrifice unto Iehovah And Moses said unto Pharaoh Glorie over me when I shall intreat for thee and for thy servants and for thy people to cut off the frogs from thee and from thy houses onely in the river they shall remaine And he said to morrow and he said be it according to thy word that thou maist know that there is none like Iehovah our God And the frogs shall depart from thee and from thy houses and from thy servants and from thy people onely in the river they shall remaine And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh and Moses cryed unto Iehovah because of the frogs which he had put upon Pharaoh And Iehovah did according to the word of Moses and the frogs dyed out of the houses out of the villages and out of the fields And they gathered them together upon heapes and the land stanke And Pharaoh saw that there was a breathing and he made his heart heavy and hearkened not unto them euen as Iehovah had spoken And Iehovah sayd unto Moses Say unto Aaron stretch out thy rod and smite the dust of the land and it shall be turned to lice in all the land of Egypt And they did so and Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod and smote the dust of the land and there were lice on man and on beast all the dust of the land was lice in all the land of Egypt And the Magicians did so with their inchantments to bring forth lice but they could not and there were lice on man and on beast And the Magicians sayd unto Pharaoh This is the finger of God and Pharaohs heart waxed strong and he hearkned not unto them even as Iehovah had spoken And Iehovah said unto Moses Rise up earely in the morning stand before Pharaoh lo◠〈◊〉 commeth forth to the waters and say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 him thus saith Iehovah Send away my people that they may serve mee Else if thou wilt not send away my people behold I will send a mixed swarme upon thee and upon thy servants and upon thy people and into thy houses and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of the mixed swarme and also the ground where on they art And I will marvellously sever in that day the land of Go 〈…〉 upon which my people standethy that there shall 〈◊〉 mixed 〈◊〉 there to th◠〈◊〉 maist 〈…〉 that I am Iehovah in the 〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉 And I will put a 〈◊〉 de 〈…〉 people and 〈◊〉 by people 〈…〉 all 〈…〉 be And Iehova◠did 〈…〉 there came a heavie 〈…〉 I the house of Pharaoh and the house of 〈…〉 into all the land of Egypt 〈◊〉 land was corrupted by reason 〈…〉 Pharaoh 〈…〉 and sayd 〈…〉 the land And Moses said 〈…〉 to doe 〈…〉 shall 〈…〉 shall 〈…〉 of the Egypt 〈…〉 〈…〉 not 〈◊〉 us We will goe three dayes
Isis and Osiris will they not stone us meaning doubtlesse they will Therefore the Greeke translateth we shall be stoned and the Scripture it selfe often resolveth such questions by affirmations as is shewed on Gen. 4. 7. and 13. 9. Vers. 27. shall say for they knew not how they should serve the Lord till they came thither Exod. 10. 26. The Greeke translateth hath said referring it to that generall precept in Exod. 5. 1. 3. Verse 28. not remove very farre or not in any ease remove farre Hebrew removing farre not remove farre of which phrase see Gen. 2. 17. intreat ye Greeke pray ye therefore for me unto the Lord meaning that the plague might bee taken away as verse 8. and 29. So Simon Magus requested the prayer of Peter Act. 8. 24. Vers. 29. that the mixed swarme may or as the Greeke translateth and the mixed swarme shall depart for these two phrases are used indifferently as one Evangelist writeth and the inheritance shall be ours Mark 12. 7. another saith that the inheritance may be ours Luk. 20. 14. See also the notes on Gen. 27. 4. and 12. 12. Herein Moses sheweth great faith that his praier shold be granted any more deceive Heb. adde to deceive or to mock as the word signifieth 1 Kin. 18. 27. this he said because he had promised the like before verse 8. but God will not be mocked Gal. 6 7. Iob 13 9. V. 32. made heavy by hardning his heart against the Lord see verse 15. and chap. 7. 14. sent not is the Greek are he would not send And often when things are denied to be done it implieth an unwillingnesse which the Holy Ghost sometime explaineth as David removed not the Arke 1 Chro. 13. 13. that is he would not remove it 2 Sam. 6. 10. CHAP. IX 1. God threatneth the fift Plague the murraine of cattell 4 but exempteth Israel 6 The Egyptians cattell die 7 yet Pharaoh is harned 8 God bringeth the sixt plague boyles upon man and beast 11 so that the MagiciaÌ„s cannot stand before Moses 12 yet Pharaohs heart is hardned 13 God threatneth Pharaoh more severely 22 The seventh plague of hayle and fire falleth upon men and beasts and fruits of the earth 27 Pharaoh confesseth his sinne and sueth to Moses 33 who praieth to God and the plague ceaseth 34 whereupon Pharaohs heart is hardned yet more AND Iehovah said unto Moses Goe in unto Pharaoh and speake unto him Thus saith Iehovah the God of the Hebrewes Send away my people that they may serve me For if thou refuse to send them away thou still wilt hold them Behold the hand of Iehovah is upon thy cattel which is in the field upon the horses upon the asses upon the camels upon the oxen and upon the sheepe a very grievous murraine And Iehovah will marvellously sever betweene the cattell of Israel and the cattell of Egypt and there shall not dye any thing of all that is the sons of Israel And Iehovah appointed a set time saying To morrow Iehovah will doe this thing in the land And Iehovah did this thing on the morrow and all the cattle of the Egyptians dyed but of the cattell of the sons of Israel died not one And Pharaoh sent behold there was not any one of the cattell of Israel dead and the heart of Pharaoh was made heavy and hee sent not away the people And Iehovah said unto Moses and unto Aaron Take to you your hands full of ashes of the fornace and let Moses sprinkle it towards the heavens in the eyes of Pharaoh And it shall be turned to small dust upon all the land of Egypt and it shall bee upon man and upon beast to a boile breaking forth with scalding blaines in all the land of Egypt And they tooke ashes of the fornace and stood before Pharaoh and Moses sprinkled it towards the heavens and it was boyle 〈◊〉 standing blaines breaking forth up on man and upon beast And the Magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boyle for the boyle was upon the Magicians and upon all the Egyptians And Iehovah made strong the heart oâ— Pharaoh and he 〈◊〉 not unto them even as Iehovah had spoken unto Moses And Iehovah said unto Moses Rise eately in the morning and stand before Pharaoh and say unto him Thus saith Iehovah the God of the Hebrewes Send away my people that they may serve me For at this time I will send all my plagues into thy hart and upon thy servants and upon thy people that thou maist know that there is none like me in all the earth For now 〈◊〉 sent out my hand and I had smitten thee and thy people with the pestilence and thou hadst beene cut off from the earth But in very deed for this have I raised thee up for to shew in thee my power and that my name may be declared in all the earth As yet exaltest thou thy selfe against my people that thou wilt not send them away Behold I will raine about this time to morrow a very heavie haile such as hath not beene the like in Egypt since the day it was founded even untill now And now send and speedily gather thy cattell and all that thou hast in the field every man and beast which shall bee found in the field and shall not bee gathered into the house the haile shall even come downe upon them and they shall die Hee that feared the word of Iehovah amongst the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattell flie into the houses And hee that set not his heart unto the word of Iehovah he left his servants and his cattell in the field And Iehovah said unto Mosis Stretch forth thine hand towards the heavens and there shall bee haile in all the land of Egypt upon man and upon beast and upon every herbe of the field in the land of Egypt And Moses stretched forth his rod towards the heavens and Iehovah gave voices and haile and fire went upon the ground and Iehovah rained haile upon the land of Egypt And there was haile and fire catching it selfe among the haile very heavie such as there was not the like in all the land of Egypt since it was a nation And the haile smote in all the land of Egypt all that was in the field from man even unto beast and the haile smote euery herbe of the field and brake every tree of the field 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 where the 〈…〉 And P 〈…〉 and called for Mâ—ses and for 〈◊〉 and said 〈…〉 I have sinned thâ—◠〈◊〉 〈…〉 and 〈◊〉 and my peopl◠〈◊〉 quicked 〈…〉 for 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 no 〈◊〉 voices of God 〈◊〉 and I will send you away and 〈◊〉 shall 〈…〉 And Moses said u 〈…〉 When b 〈…〉 â—one out of the citie I will 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 my hands unto Iehovah the voices shall cease and the haile shall be no more that thou â—â—ist know that the earth is Iehovahs But thou and thy servants I
know that ye will not yet feare before Iehovah God And the flaxe and the baâ—ey was smitten for the barley was in the eare and the flaxe was bolled But the wheat and the 〈◊〉 were not smitten for they were hidden And Moses went out of the citie from Pharaoh and spread abroad his hands unto Iehovah and the voices and the haile ceased and the raine was not poured upon the earth And Pharaoh saw that the raine and the haile and the voices were ceased he added for to sin made heavie his hart he and his servants And the heart of Pharaoh waxed strong and hee sent not away the sons of Israel even as Iehovah had spoken by the hand of Moses Annotations HEbrewes in Chaldee Iewes so in v. 13. and usually in other places For they which of old were called Hebrewes of Heber the Patriarch Gen. 14. 13. were after called Iewes Eâ—th 3. 6. of Iuâ—as the Patriarch Iakobs fourth sonne see Gen. 29. 35. and 49. 8. V. 3. the â—and The Chaldee expounds it a plague fâ—om before the Lord. sheepe or flocks both sheep and goats griâ—vâ—â—◠〈◊〉 or heavie pestilâ—â—â—â— the Chaldee and the Greeke calleth it a very great death See the notes on Exod. 5. 3. for it is the same word therensed V. 4. sever In the Greeke will glorifie see Exod. 8. 22. any thing Hebr. a word that is ought 〈◊〉 may be spoken of 10 word is for thing in v. 5. 6. V. 6. all the cattell that is of all sorts some for other some renamed for an after plague v. 19. 25. And this was the fift judgement of which Asaph saith God weighed out 〈◊〉 path to his anger c. and gave up their beasts to thâ—â—â—â—rraine or pestilence Psal. 78. 50. V. 7. made heavie and so obstinate see Exodus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ver. 8. your hands full Hebrew the fulnesse of your 〈◊〉 Here againe the sixt plague is brought upon Egypt without warning given them before see the notes on Exod. 8. 16. â—sâ—es or embers The matter of this plague is from the fire as of the former from the earth and water of the next from the aire the heavens as signifying this punishment to come upon them from God above in speciall manner to a boyle or as the Greeke translateth boyles or sores boâ—ches Of such oft times leprosie did breed as Lev. 13. 18. 19. 20. scalding blaines or â—â—yling blisters a word not used but in this Egyptian plague and it was an extraordinary uncurable byle such as Moses threatned among other curses for the breach of Gods law Deut. 28. 27. the Lord will smite thee with the boyle of Egypt c. wherof thou canst not be healed The Holy Ghost expresseth it in Greeke by an evill and a malignant boyle Rev. 16. 2. V. 10. it was or there was as the Greeke translateth there were boyles Thus the plagues come neerer unto Pharaoh to his skin and flesh but greater follow even into his heart v. 14. Vnto this sixt plague of Egypt answereth the first plague of the spirituall Egypt where there was an evill and malignant boyle upon the men which had the marke of the beast and which worshiped his image Rev. 16. 2. V. 11. couldnot stand as hitherto they had withstood Moses and Pharaoh would have had them done so stilleâ— but now their follie was manifested unto all men see 2 Tim. 3. 8. 9. Exod. 7. 11. 12. and 8. 18. Compare also here with Rev. 6. 17. where it is said the great day of the Lambes wrath is come and who shall be able to stand Ver. 12. made strong and as the Greeke translateth it hardned See Exâ—d 4. 21. A like event is seene in the latter Egyptians they blaspheme the God of heaven for their paines and for their boyles but repent not of their workes Rev. 16. 11. Vers. 15. I send out my hand by the pestilence or muâ—raine among the beasts v. 3. 6. and I had smitten thee with the same pestilence and thou hadst beene cut off for so thy sinnes deserved but for another cause which after is declared in v. 16. I have spared thee This seemeth to be the proper meaning of these words Otherwise taking the time past for that which is to come for more certainty it may be read I will send namely if thou submit not And so the Greek expounds it I will send and the Chaldee thus for now it is neere before me that I will send out my powerfull plague pestilence in the Greeke and Chaldee death V. 16. But in very deed or And verily for this the Apostle Rom. 9. addeth a word of intention for this same meaning cause or purpose as the Greeke expounds it for this cause raised thee up so the Apostle in Rom. 9. 17. expounds the Hebr. I have made thee stand up or I have constituted and seâ— thee The common Gr. version hath thou hast beene reserved or kept alive which thought it be true yet doth it not express the whole meaning of God who had not onely kept him alive froÌ„ the former plagues but even raised set and constituted him for a vessell of wrath and an example of Gods justice and â—eveâ—itie as Paul applieth it to that argument And that standing may imply the constitution or being of a thing the Scripture elsewhere sheweth as where one Prophet saith the Angell of the Lord stood by the threshing floore 1 Chron. 21. 15. another saith the Angell was by it 2 Sam. 24 16. for to shew or that I may shew as Paul explaineth it See the notes on Gen. 6. 19. in thee or shew thee but both the Greeke translation and the Apostle Rom. 9. 17. addeth the word in Which is often to bee observed in words compounded as this is as Gen. 30. 20. dwell with me Psal. 5. 5. so journe with thee Psal. 42. 5. resorted with them Sinne against me Prov. 8. 36. and sundry the like bee declared Hebr. for to declare or tell my name See the notes on Gen. 6. 20. The Chaldee translateth that they may declare the power of my name From hence the Apostle inferreth Therefore God hath mercie on whom he will and whom he will he hardneth Rom. 9. 18. Vers. 18. about this time Greeke at this houre or time for the Greeke useth these two indifferently as In that houre Luk. 10. 21. whereas Matthew saith In that time Matt. 1â— 25. very heavy or vehemently weighty that is sore and grievous This plague proceedeth from the ayre as the former did from other elements founded that is the foundation of it laid as the Greeke saith created Vers. 19. speedily gather gather for to flee or to retire as the word signifieth Ier. 4. 6. and 6. 1. This warning as it implyed great danger to come so no lesse mercie in God towards such ill deserving people even come downe Hebrew and shall come downe and they shall dye meaning with the haile so soone as it should fall Vers. 20. made to flie the
Exod. 10. 28. And such is the end of the ministery of Moses law unto all hard hearted sinners Rom. 2. 5. and 4. 15. Vnto this we may apply that saying of Paul By faith Moses for sooke Egypt not fearing the wrath of the king for he indured as seeing him who is invisible Heb. 11. 27. Vers. 10. made strong that is as the Greeke expoundeth it hardned Herein the unsearchablenesse of Gods judgements is to be considered for as those whom he loveth he loveth unto the end Ioh. 13. 1. and putteth his feare in their hearts that they shall not depart from him Ierem. 32. 40. so the wicked whom his soule hateth Psal. 11. 5. he hardneth their heart from his feare Esay 63. 17. that though hee doe many miracles before them yet they beleeve not neither can they beleeve because hee hath blinded their eyes and hardned their heart that they should not see with their eyes nor understand with their heart and be converted and he should heale them Ioh. 12. 37. 39. 40. So after their hardnesse and impenitent heart they treasure up unto themselves wrath against the day of wrath Rom. 2. 5. and God willing to shew wrath to make his power knowne endureth with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction Rom. 9. 22. Of which Pharaoh is a most memorable example appointed of God for this that hee might shew his power in him and that Gods name might bee declared throughout all the earth Exodus 9. 16. Romanes 9. 17. CHAP. XII 1. The moneth wherein Israel went out of Egypt is made the first moneth 3 A commandement to prepare a Lambe for the Passeover 11 The manner of eating the Passeover 15 Unlevened bread must be eaten seven daies 22 The blood of the Lamb must be sprinckled on the doore posts 29 All the First-borne of Egypt are slaine 31 The Israelites are driven out of the land 35. They spoile the Egyptians 37 They journey to Succoth 43 The ordinance of the Passeover and who they are that may eat the same AND Iehovah said unto Moses and unto Aaron in the land of Egypt saying This moneth shall be unto you the head of moneths it shall be unto you the first of the moneths of the yeere Speake yee unto all the congregation of Israel saying in the tenth of this moneth That they take to them every man a lambe according to the house of their fathers a lambe for an house And if the house be too little to be for a lambe then shall he and his neighbour the next unto his house take according to the number of the soules euery man according to his eating yee shall make your count for the lambe A lambe perfect a male of the first yeere shall it be to you yee shall take it of the sheepe or of the goates And it shall be by you kept up untill the fourteenth day of this moneth the whole Church of the congregation of Israel shall kill it between the two evenings And they shall take of the blood and give it upon the two side-posts and upon the upper doore-post upon the houses wherein they shall eat it And they shall eat the flesh in that night rost with fire and with unlevened cakes and with bitter herbs they shall eate it Yee shall not eat of it raw or sodden at all in water but rost with fire the head thereof with the legs thereof and with the purtenance thereof And yee shall not let ought remaine of it untill the morning and that which remaineth of it untill the morning ye shall burne with fire And thus shall yee eat it with your loynes girded your shooes on your feet and your staffe in your hand and ye shall eat it in hast it is Iehovahs Passeover And I will passe through the land of Egypt in this night and will smite every first-borne in the land of Egypt from man even unto beast and against all the gods of Egypt will I doe judgements I Iehovah And the blood shall bee to you for a signe upon the houses where you are and I will see the blood and will passe over you and the plague shall not bee upon you to destruction when I smite the land of Egypt And this day shall bee unto you for a memoriall and ye shall festivally keepe it a feast to Iehovah throughout your generations shall ye festivally keepe it by an everlasting statute Seven daies shall ye eat unlevened cakes even in the first day ye shall cause the old leven to cease out of your houses for whosoever eateth levened bread even that soule shal be cut off from Israel from the first day untill the seventh day And in the first day there shall be unto you a convocation of holinesse and in the seventh day a convocation of holinesse not any worke shall bee done in them but that which shall be eaten of every soule that onely shall bee done of you And ye shall observe the feast of unlevened cakes for in this selfe-same day have I brought forth your armies out of the land of Egypt and yee shall observe this day throughout your generations by an everlasting statute In the first moneth in the fourteenth day of the moneth at the evening ye shall eat unlevened cakes untill the one and twentieth day of the moneth at the evening Seven daies old leven shall not be found in your houses for whosoever eateth that which is levened even that soule shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel be he of the stranger or of the home-borne of the land Any levened thing ye shall not eat in all your habitations yee shall eat unlevened cakes And Moses called for all the Elders of Israel and said unto them Draw out and take to you lambes according to your families and kill the Passeover And ye shall take a bunch of hyssope and dip it in the blood that is in the bason and strike on the upper doore-post and on the two side-posts with the blood that is in the bason and you yee shall not goe forth any man out of the doore of his house untill the morning For Iehovah will passe through to smite the Egyptians and will see the blood on the upper doore-post and on the two side-posts and Iehovah will passe over the doore and will not give the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite And yee shall observe this thing for a statute to thee and to thy sonnes for ever And it shall be when ye are come in unto the land which Iehovah will give you even as hee hath spoken then yee shall keepe this service And it shall be when your sonnes shall say unto you What is this service to you Then ye shall say It is the sacrifice of the Passeover to Iehovah who passed over the houses of the sonnes of Israel in Egypt when hee smote the Egyptians and delivered our houses And the people bended downe the head and bowed themselves And the
the rings therof unto the rings of the Ephod with a lace of blew to be above the curious girdle of the Ephod and that the Brestplate bee not loosed from the Ephod And Aaron shal beare the names of the Sons of Israel in the Brestplate of judgment upon his heart when hee goeth in into the Holy place for a memoriall before Iehovah continually And thou shalt put in the Brestplate of judgment the Vrim and the Thummim and they shall be upon Aarons hart when he goeth in before Iehovah and Aaron shall beare the judgement of the Sonnes of Israel upon his heart before Iehovah continually And thou shalt make the Robe of the Ephod all of blew And there shall be a hole in the top of it in the mids thereof it shall have a binding for the hole round about of woven worke as the hole of an habergeon shall it have that it bee not rent And thou shalt make upon the skirts thereof Pomgranats of blew and of purple and of scarlet upon the skirts thereof round about bels of gold between them round about A bell of gold and a pomgranate a bell of gold and a pomgranate upon the skirts of the Robe round about And it shall be upon Aaron to minister and his sound shall be heard when he goeth in unto the Holy place before Iehovah when he goeth out that he die not And thou shalt make a Plate of pure gold and shalt grave upon it like the engravings of a signet HOLINES TO IEHOVAH And thou shalt put it on a lace of blew it shall be upon the Miter upon the forefront of the Miter it shall be And it shall be upon Aarons forehead and Aaron shall beare the iniquity of the holy things which the Sons of Israel shall â—allow in all the gifts of their holy things and it shall be upon his forehead alwaies for favourable acceptation of them before Iehovah And thou shalt weave with circled worke the Coat of sine linnen and thou shalt make the Miter of fine linnen and thou shalt make the Girdle the worke of the Embroiderer And for Aarons Sonnes thâ—â— shalt make Coats and thou shalt make for them Girdles and Bonnets shalt thou maâ—â— for them for honour for beautifull glory And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother and upon his sonnes with him and shalt anoint them and fill their hand and sanctifie them that they may minister-in-the-priests-office unto mee And thou shalt make for them linnen breeches to cover the naked flesh from the loines even unto the thighes they shall be And they shall be upon Aaron and upon his sonnes when they goe in unto the Tent of the congregation or when they come neare unto the Altar to minister in the Holy place that they beare not iniquity and die it shall be a statute for ever to him and to his seed after him Annotations TAke nere or cause to come â—igh that is to present themselves unto thee Hitherto God hath appointed such holy things as pertained to his service now he giueth order for holy persons to administer before him minister in c. or execute the Priesthood This honour no man might take unto himself but he that was called of God as Aaron Heb. 5. 4. In this work Aaron chiefly figured out Christ secondarily all Christians whom hee hath made priests unto God Heb. 5. 5. Re. 1. 6. Vers. 2. of holinesse that is holy garments in Greeke an holy stole so called because they signified the holy graces of Gods Spirit wherewith Christ and his people should be clothed For such an high priest it became us to have as is holy harmlesse undefiled Heb. 7. 26. and Gods priests are to be clothed with justice and with salvation Psal. 132. 9. 16. and so are all the Saints Esay 61. 10. beautifull glory the Greeke translateth for honour and glory These two signifie the highest degree of dignitie honour inwardly in the heart and affections glory outwardly in the appearance and cariage as in Esay 28. 1. 4. glory or beauty is compared to a floure and in Esay 61. 3. it is opposed unto ashes As Iesus the son of Iosedek the high priest was clothed in filthy garments which signified iniquitie in him and his ministration Zach. 3. 3. 4. so these garments of honour and glory signified the holy and pure administration of Iesus the Son of God who offered himselfe without spot unto God to purge our conscience from dead workes Heb. 9. 14. by whom also his Church is clothed with garments of beautifull glory Esa. 52. 1. with fine linnen cleane and bright which is the righteousnesse of the Saints Rev. 19. 8. From this speech of honour and glory the Hebrew Doctors have delivered that the garments of the priests were to be new faire c. like the garments of great men If they were foule or torne or overlong or overshort c. and the Priest did his service in them it was unlawfull Every Priests garment that was made filthy they did not whiten it or wash it but leave it for threds or weke and put on new The high Prists garments when they were old were laid up in store and the white garments wherin he served on the fasting day mentioned in Lev. 16. 4. hee never served in them the second time but they were reserved in the place where 〈◊〉 put them off as it is written AND HE SHALL LEAVE THEM THERE Levit. 16. 23. and it was unlawfull to put them to any use The coats of the inferior Priests when they were worne old they made of them threds or weke for the Candlesticke continually Maimony in treat of the Implements of the Sanctuary chap. 8. Sect. 4. 5. 6. Vers. 3. whomsoever Heb. him whom I have filled Here God sheweth his Spirit to be the author and teacher of handicrafts the Prophet sheweth the like of husbandrie Esay 28. 24. 26. sanctifie or consecrate him that is to be a signe of his sanctification from God Therefore it was death to minister without these garments v. 43. and they are called holy garments verse 2. and in times following were laid up in holy chambers and the Priests might not weare them among the people to sanctifie them with their garments Ezek. 44. 19. Vers. 4. circled worke this differed from broidered worke which was of many colours but this coat was of one colour white being of fine linnen onely verse 39. but woven with circles or round hollow places like eyes wherefore the same word is after in v. 11. used for ouches or hollow places wherin stones were set Maimony in the forenamed treatise chap. 8. Sect. 16. saith The coats both of the high Priest and of inferiour priests were of circled worke that is had many hollow places or houses in the weaving like the hollow place of cups c. and a Girdle To these sixe adde the golden Plate or crowne verse 36. and the Breeches vers 42. so the high Priest
in the Law another inward in the heart 2 Cor. 3. 13. 14. c. And as without a veil the people could not heare Moses so except the Law be veiled and hath as it were a new face upon it the naturall man cannot endure the glory of it so terrible it is to the conscience of sinners R. Menachem here observeth how the former Ancients of Israel at the reading of the Booke of the Law covered their faces and said hee that heareth from the mouth of the reader is as hee that heareth from the mouth of Moses Vers. 34. tooke off the veil whereof there was no use in the sight of God who doth not onely know himselfe the use and end of his Law but sheweth the same also to others which was likewise here figured for when men shall be turned to the Lord the veile shall be taken away 2 Cor. 3. 16. Vers. 35. put the veil againe on hereby signifying the continuall glory of his ministery and infirmity of the people till both of them be done a way Which is accomplished by the Gospell the ministration of the Spirit and of righteousnesse which exceeds in glory so that Moses ministery hath no glory in this respect for Christ taketh away the veil so that we may both stedfastly looke to the end of the Law which is abolished and all of us with unveiled face beholding as in a glasse the glory of the Lord are changed into the same image from glory to glory even as by the Spirit of the Lord 1 Cor. 5. 8. 18. CHAP. XXXV 1 Moses commandeth the people from the Lord to keepe the Sabbath 4 to bring willing offrings of gold silver brasse and other stuffe for the Tabernacle and furniture thereof 20 The people goe and bring voluntary gifts 22 Men and women bring their Iewels and ornaments and other stuffe such as they had 25. The wise women spin the stuffe 27 The Rulers bring precious stones and spices 30 Bezaleel and Aholiab are shewed to be the men whom God had filled with his Spirit and Wisedome to doe the worke of the Sanctuary 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ANd Moses gathered together all the Congregation of the sonnes of Israel and said unto them These are the words which Iehovah hath commanded to doe them Sixe dayes shall worke be done but on the seventh day there shall be to you holinesse a Sabbath of sabbatisme to Iehovah whosoever doth any worke therein shall be put-to-death Ye shall kindle no fire in any of your habitations upon the Sabbath day And Moses said unto all the Congregation of the sonnes of Israel saying this is the thing which Iehovah hath commanded saying Take yee from amongst you an offring unto Iehovah whosoever is willing in his heart let him bring it the offring of Iehovah Gold and silver brasse And blew and purple and scarlet and fine-linnen and Goats hayre And Rams skins dyed-red and Tachash skins and Shittim wood And oile for the Light and spices for the anointing oile and for the incense of sweet-spices And Beryll stones filling stones for the Ephod and for the Brest plate And every wise harted among you shall come and make all that Iehovah hath commanded The Tabernacle the tent thereof and the covering thereof the taches thereof and the boards thereof the bars thereof the pillars thereof and the sockets thereof The arke and the bars there of the Covering-mercy-seat and the veile of the covering The Table and the barres thereof and all the vessels thereof and the shew-bread And the Candlesticke for the Light and the vessels thereof and the lamps thereof and the oile for the Light And the Altar of incense and the bars thereof and the anointing oyle and the incense of sweet spices and the hanging veile of the doore for the doore of the Tabernacle The Altar of Burnt offring and the grate of brasse which is for it the bars thereof and all the vessels thereof the Laver and the foot thereof The tapestry-hangings of the Court the pillars thereof and the sockets thereof and the hanging-veile of the gate of the Court The pinnes of the Tabernacle and the pins of the Court and their coards The garments of ministery to minister in the holy-place the garments of holinesse for Aaron the Priest and the garments of his sonnes to minister-in-the-priests-office And all the congregation of the Sonnes of Israel departed from the presence of Moses And they came every man whose heart stirred him up and every one whose spirit made him willing they brought the offring of Iehovah for the worke of the Tent of the Congregation and for all the service thereof and for the garments of holinesse And they came the men with the women every-one that was willing hearted they brought bracelets and eare-rings and rings and tablets all jewels of gold and every man that offered offred an offring of gold unto Iehovah And every man with whom was found blew and purple and scarlet and fine-linnen and Goats hayre and Rammes skinnes dyed red and Tachash skinnes brought them Every one that offred an offring of silver and of brasse they brought the offring of Iehovah and every one with whom was found Shittim wood for any work of the service brought it And every woman that was wise hearted did spinne with her hands and they brought the spun-worke the blew and the purple and the scarlet and the fine-linnen And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisedome spunne Goats hayre And the Rulers brought Beryll stones and filling stones for the Ephod and for the Brest-plate And spice and oyle for the Light and for the anointing oyle and for the incense of sweet-spices Every man and woman whose heart made them willing to bring for all the work which Iehovah had commanded to make by the hand of Moses the sonnes of Israel ◠brought a willing offring unto Iehovah And Moses said unto the sonnes of Israel See Iehovah hath called by name Bezaleel the sonne of Vri the sonne of Hur of the tribe of Iudah And he hath filled him with the Spirit of God in wisedome in understanding and in knowledge and in all workmanship And to devise cunning-worke to worke in gold and in silver and in brasse And in ingraving of stone to fill and in carving of wood to work in all cunning works And hee hath given into his heart for to teach he and Aholiab the sonne of Ahisamach of the Tribe of Dan. He hath filled them with wisedome of heart to make all worke of the ingraver and of the cunning-workman and of the embroiderer in blew and in purple in scarlet and in fine-linnen and of the weaver even of them that doe any worke and that devise cunning workes Annotations 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 HEre beginneth the 22 Section of the Law See Gen. 6. 9. and 28. 10. Vers. 2. holinesse that is a day of holinesse or an holy day and signe of holinesse from the Lord See Exod. 31. 13.
as the Apostle calleth the spirits of just men made perfect Heb. 12. 23. the spirits of the Fathers which were returned to God who gave them as Eccles. 12. 7. shall one man sinne in Greeke if one man hath sinned as if they should say All have not sinned why wilt thou be wroth with all Vpon this intercession the Lord spareth the people that would depart from the rebells verse 24. Verse 24. the tabernacle this seemeth to bee put for tabernacles or dwellings the Greeke translateth it the congregation so in vers 27. where the Greeke also keepeth the word Tabernacle which in vers 26. is called Tents Vers. 25. the elders the Greeke addeth all the elders went after him in Greeke went with him that is accompanied him Verse 26. these wicked men in Greeke these hard men the originall word properly signifieth restlesse turbulent and such as for their sinnes are worthy to be condemned see the notes on Psal. 1. 1. touch not any thing because as they themselves so all things of theirs were uncleane and execrable and therefore to perish with them vers 32. Verse 27. came out and stood Heb. came out standing which the Greeke explaineth came out and stood and these two phrases are one as where it is said that Iesus blessed and breaking gave to the disciples Mat. 14. 19. the other Evangelists explaine it he blessed and brake and gave Luke 9. 16. Mark 6. 41. so Saying unto them Matth. 21. 2. is And saith unto them Mark 11. 2. This their standing up argueth their boldnesse in so bad a cause for standing up is a gesture denoting courage Iob 33. 5. and 41. 10. 1 Sam. 17. 8. 16. Thus Pride went before destruction and an haughty spirit before a fall as Prov. 16. 18. Verse 28. all these workes both the former in appointing Aaron to the Priest-hood and the Levites in stead of the first-borne and these latter in appointing Korah and his company to bring their censers with incense c. of mine owne heart which the Chaldee explaineth of mine owne will the Greeke of my selfe For things devised of ones owne heart are noted for evill 1 King 12. 33. Ezek. 13. 17. Vers. 29. as all men die their ordinarie naturall death which the Greeke translateth after the death of all men Verse 30. create a new thing Hebr. create a creature that is doe a new and wonderfull worke to kill them with such a death as never man died before them Of this word create see the notes on Gen. 1. 1. it is applied here to a strange and extraordinarie worke of judgment as in Esai 45. 7. God is said to create evill and in Exod. 34. 10. to create marvels and in Esai 48. 6. 7. new and â—idden things God would create And as evill so good things which are new and strange are said to be created of God Esa. 65. 18. alive living haile and sound not consumed with sicknesse as ordinarily men are before death and buriall unto hell into the grave or state of death see the notes on Gen. 37. 35. To this iudgement the Prophet hath reference praying against his enemies Lâ—t them goe downe alive to hell Psal. 55. 16. Verse 32. swallowed up them to wit Dathan and Abiram as in Psal. 106. 17. The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan and covered over the congregation of Abiram So David prayed against his enemies swallow them up o Lord Psal. 55. 10. their houses that is housholds as the Chaldee expoundeth it the men of their houses appertained unto Korah The Greeke translateth and all the men that were with Kore and the Chaldee the men that pertained to Korah But the sonnes of Korah are to be excepted for they either not partaking with or forsaking their Fathers sinne died not see Num. 26. 21. And whereas mention was made of On the sonne of Reuben in verse 1. but not here nor any where of his death neither in verse 12. of his calling or refusall to come up it is to be thought that either he repented upon Moses reproofe and so was spared from destruction or if not so he is implied among the rest though not named in particular their substance or their goods which the Greeke translateth their cattell and so the originall word implieth as in 1 Chron. 27. 31. 2 Chron. 31. 3. and 35. 7. See the notes on Gen. 12. 5. And not their cattell onely but all their other goods even their tents were swallowed into the earth Deut. 11. 6. Here wee may behold the truth of that Proverbe Riches profit not in the day of wrath but iustice delivereth from death Prov. 11. 4. Vers. 33. closed upon them or covered over them so there was no hope left for their recoverie Against such judgement David prayeth Let not the gulse swallow me neither let the pit shut her mouth upon me Psal. 69. 16. Vers. 34. at the voice of them at their crie or noise which they made when they perished So in Ier. 49. 21. At the voice or noise of their fall the earth is moved c. and I made the nations to shake at the noise of his fall Ezek. 31. 16. Lest the earth swallow us an unperfect speech through feare such as is often used in dangers as in Psal. 38. 17. Rom. 11. 21. Thus the present judgement terrified them and When the scorner is punished the simple is made wise Prov. 21. 11. Vers. 35. devoured or did eat the 250. men They sinned in burning incense which belonged to the Priests onely and with burning they were punished like the judgement on Aarons sonnes that transgressed also therein Levit. 10. 1 2. Of this David singeth A fire burned in their congregation a flame burnt up the wicked Psal. 106. 18. Vers. 37. unto Eleazar Chazkuni here observeth that God would not have Aaron to bee defiled by going among the dead because he was one of them that offered vers 17. out of the burning that is as the Greeke well explaineth it from among those that are burnt So in Num. 21. 1. captivitie is for a company of captives and in 2 King 24. 14. Povertie for a company of poore people and many the like the fire which is in the censers vers 7. The Greeke saith the strange fire as Lev. 10. 1. yonder in Greeke there which Sol. Iarchi expoundeth on the earth out of the censers others out of the court of the Sanctuarie By casting away the fire the Lord signifieth the rejecting of their service as profane So in Rev. 8. 5. the Angell tooke the censer and filled it with fire of the Altar and cast it into the earth and there were voices and thunderings c. Which being compared with vers 3 4. seemeth to teach likewise a rejecting of the service of Antichristians which abuse and despise Christs mediation and therefore it is turned unto them to judgement Vers. 38. sinners against their soules Sinners are here often used for notorious wicked persons as Destroy the sinners