Exodus 10:7 And Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?

Exodus 10:7 And Pharaoh's servants said to him, "How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God. Do you not realize that Egypt is destroyed?"

7-11. Pharaoh's servants said--Many of his courtiers must have suffered serious losses from the late visitations, and the prospect of such a calamity as that which was threatened and the magnitude of which former experience enabled them to realize, led them to make a strong remonstrance with the king. Finding himself not seconded by his counsellors in his continued resistance, he recalled Moses and Aaron, and having expressed his consent to their departure, inquired who were to go. The prompt and decisive reply, "all," neither man nor beast shall remain, raised a storm of indignant fury in the breast of the proud king. He would permit the grown-up men to go away; but no other terms would be listened to.

JFB.

Exodus 10 Images and Notes

Brief Summary: The LORD send plagues of locusts, then the thick darkness in the whole land of Egypt for three days, Moses is cast out from the face of Pharaoh.

Outline
1 God threatens to send locusts
7 Pharaoh, moved by his servants, inclines to let the Israelites go
12 The plague of the locusts
16 Pharaoh asks Moses to entreat the Lord in his behalf
21 The plague of darkness
24 Pharaoh petitions again unto Moses
27 but yet Pharaoh's heart is hardened.

Ancient Customs
locusts
thy coast
feast
west wind
darkness
THE OUTSTRETCHED HAND

Painting of Ancient Egyptian Landmarks by Roberts