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Selected Verse: Exodus 10:17 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Ex 10:17 |
Strong Concordance |
Now therefore forgive [05375], I pray thee, my sin [02403] only this once [06471], and intreat [06279] the LORD [03068] your God [0430], that he may take away [05493] from me this death [04194] only. |
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King James |
Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat the LORD your God, that he may take away from me this death only. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
This death only - Pliny calls locusts a pestilence brought on by divine wrath. Pharaoh now recognizes the justice of his servants' apprehensions, Exo 10:7. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
Pharaoh desires their prayers that this death only might be taken away, not this sin: he deprecates the plague of locusts, not the plague of a hard heart. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once - What a strange case! And what a series of softening and hardening, of sinning and repenting! Had he not now another opportunity of returning to God? But the love of gain, and the gratification of his own self-will and obstinacy, finally prevailed. |
7 And Pharaoh's [06547] servants [05650] said [0559] unto him, How long shall this man be a snare [04170] unto us? let the men [0582] go [07971], that they may serve [05647] the LORD [03068] their God [0430]: knowest [03045] thou not yet [02962] that Egypt [04714] is destroyed [06]?