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出埃及记 10:7

法老的臣僕對法老說:“這人成為我們的網羅要到幾時呢?讓這些人離開吧,使他們可以事奉耶和華他們的 神;埃及已經毀滅了,你還不知道嗎?”

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Animals;   Government;   Locust;   Miracles;   Plague;   Scofield Reference Index - Miracles;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Locust, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Locust;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Destroy, Destruction;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Locust;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Exodus, Book of;   Locust;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Exodus;   Leviticus;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Locusts;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Plagues of egypt;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Plagues, the Ten,;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Plagues of Egypt;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Locust;   Plagues of Egypt;   Snare;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
法 老 的 臣 仆 对 法 老 说 : 这 人 为 我 们 的 网 罗 要 到 几 时 呢 ? 容 这 些 人 去 事 奉 耶 和 华 ─ 他 们 的   神 罢 ! 埃 及 已 经 败 坏 了 , 你 还 不 知 道 麽 ?

Contextual Overview

1 The Lord said to Moses, "Go to the king of Egypt. I have made him and his officers stubborn so I could show them my powerful miracles. 2 I also did this so you could tell your children and your grandchildren how I was hard on the Egyptians. Tell them about the miracles I did among them so that all of you will know that I am the Lord ." 3 So Moses and Aaron went to the king and told him, "This is what the Lord , the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to be sorry for what you have done? Let my people go to worship me. 4 If you refuse to let my people go, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country. 5 They will cover the land so that no one will be able to see the ground. They will eat anything that was left from the hailstorm and the leaves from every tree growing in the field. 6 They will fill your palaces and all your officers' houses, as well as the houses of all the Egyptians. There will be more locusts than your fathers or ancestors have ever seen—more than there have been since people began living in Egypt.'" Then Moses turned and walked away from the king. 7 The king's officers asked him, "How long will this man make trouble for us? Let the Israelites go to worship the Lord their God. Don't you know that Egypt is ruined?" 8 So Moses and Aaron were brought back to the king. He said to them, "Go and worship the Lord your God. But tell me, just who is going?" 9 Moses answered, "We will go with our young and old people, our sons and daughters, and our flocks and herds, because we are going to have a feast to honor the Lord ." 10 The king said to them, "The Lord will really have to be with you if ever I let you and all of your children leave Egypt. See, you are planning something evil!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

How long: Exodus 10:3

snare: Exodus 23:33, Joshua 23:13, 1 Samuel 18:21, Proverbs 29:6, Ecclesiastes 7:26, 1 Corinthians 7:35

that Egypt: Psalms 107:34, Isaiah 14:20, Isaiah 51:9, Jeremiah 48:4, Jeremiah 51:8, Zephaniah 1:18

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 4:34 - temptations 1 Samuel 5:7 - saw Job 8:2 - How long Psalms 46:8 - desolations Psalms 105:38 - glad Isaiah 43:3 - I gave

Cross-References

Genesis 2:11
The first river, named Pishon, flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
1 Kings 10:1
When the queen of Sheba heard about Solomon, she came to test him with hard questions.
Psalms 72:10
Let the kings of Tarshish and the faraway lands bring him gifts. Let the kings of Sheba and Seba bring their presents to him.
Isaiah 21:13
This is a message about Arabia: A group of traders from Dedan spent the night near some trees in Arabia.
Ezekiel 27:15
"‘People of Rhodes became merchants for you, selling your goods on many coastlands. They brought back ivory tusks and valuable black wood as your payment.
Ezekiel 27:22
"‘The merchants of Sheba and Raamah became merchants for you. They traded your goods for all the best spices, valuable gems, and gold.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Pharaoh's servants said to him,.... His courtiers and counsellors, such of them as were not so hardened as others, or however now began to relent, and dreaded what would be the consequence of things, even the ruin of the whole country, the good of which they seem to have had at heart:

how long shall this man be a snare unto us? an occasion of ruin and destruction, as birds by a snare; they speak in a contemptuous manner of Moses, calling him "this man", the rather to ingratiate themselves into the good will of Pharaoh, and that their advice might be the better and the easier taken:

let the men go, that they may serve the Lord their God: that is, Moses and his people, grant them their request, that the land may be preserved from ruin; for if things go on long at this rate, utter destruction must ensue:

knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed? as good as ruined, by the plagues that already were come upon it, especially by the last, by the murrain and boils upon the cattle, which destroyed great quantities, and by the hail which had smitten their flax and their barley; or, "must thou first know that Egypt is destroyed?" before thou wilt let the people go; or dost thou first wish, or is it thy pleasure, that it should be first declared to thee that Egypt is destroyed, as Aben Ezra interprets it, before thou wilt grant the dismission of this people? The Targum of Jonathan is,

"dost thou not yet know, that by his hands the land of Egypt must perish?''

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For the first time the officers of Pharaoh intervene before the scourge is inflicted, showing at once their belief in the threat, and their special terror of the infliction. Also, for the first time, Pharaoh takes measures to prevent the evil; he does not indeed send for Moses and Aaron, but he permits them to be brought into his presence.

Let the men go - i. e. the men only, not all the people. See Exodus 10:8.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 10:7. How long shall this man be a snare unto us? — As there is no noun in the text, the pronoun זה zeh may either refer to the Israelites, to the plague by which they were then afflicted, or to Moses and Aaron, the instruments used by the Most High in their chastisement. The Vulgate translates, Usquequo patiemur hoc scandalum? "How long shall we suffer this scandal or reproach?"

Let the men go, that they may serve the Lord their God — Much of the energy of several passages is lost in translating יהוה Yehovah by the term Lord. The Egyptians had their gods, and they supposed that the Hebrews had a god like unto their own; that this Jehovah required their services, and would continue to afflict Egypt till his people were permitted to worship him in his own way.

Egypt is destroyed? — This last plague had nearly ruined the whole land.


 
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