
Chapter 11
1 The LORD said to Moses, "Yet one plague more I will bring upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt. Afterward he will let you go from here. When he lets you go, he will drive you away completely. [Exo 11:1 ESV]
Yet one...
Tenth Plague- Death of the firstborn. God's repayment of Pharoah for ordering the deaths of all the male children of Israel? This verse:
8 And all these your servants shall come down to me and bow down to me, saying, 'Get out, you and all the people who follow you.' And after that I will go out." And he went out from Pharaoh in hot anger. [Exo 11:8 ESV]
So despite Pharoah's warning that if he saw Moses again, he'd have him killed, Moses goes back to talk to Pharoah again. And Moses leaves angry. This summary verse:
9 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Pharaoh will not listen to you, that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt." [Exo 11:9 ESV] We know how this will end.
Passover. Pharoah will still not relent. So the death angel comes.
2021 - All Pharoah's servants look favorably on Israel and God disposes them to give gifts - lavish gifts. All the servants look on Moses as a very high person, and authority. God has turned all Egypt to Himself. He has shown them that He alone is God, and they now fear Him.
And in 2021, reading Proverbs 21:1, I find this:
1 The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of the LORD; he turns it wherever he will. [Pro 21:1 ESV] Exodus is truly a story that demonstrates this principle.