Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

I sent Moses also and Aaron,.... To demand Israel's dismission of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and to be the deliverers of them:

and I plagued Egypt according to that which I did amongst them; inflicting ten plagues upon them for refusing to let Israel go:

and afterwards I brought you out; that is, out of Egypt, with an high hand, and outstretched arm.

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joshua 24:5 I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out.

Ver. 5. And I brought you out.] As brands out of the fire; as many of you here present as were then under twenty years of age: and a great mercy it was to be pulled out of such a superstitious place. Gregory Nazianzen reporteth of Athens, that it was the most plagueful place in the world for superstition, even another Egypt. And he acknowledgeth it a great mercy that God did deliver him and Basil from those infections.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

According to that which I did, i.e. in such manner, and with such plagues as I inflicted, and are recorded.

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

5.Afterward I brought you out — The nation is contemplated as having a continuous life, so that the word you does not refer to the Hebrews then alive, as the term fathers in the next verse sufficiently indicates.

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

I sent. Compare Exodus 3:10; Exodus 4:14-16.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

sent

Exodus 3:10; 4:12,13; Psalms 105:26

plagued

Exodus 7:1-12; Psalms 78:43-51; 105:27-36; 135:8,9; 136:10