According to the Bible, Jehovah had a definite reason for manipulating the pharaoh in that fashion: And the Lord said to Moses, Go to the Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might show my powers before him: And so that you may tell in the ears of your son, and your son’s son, what things I had brought about in Egypt, and my miracles which I have done among them: that you may know that I am the Lord. EXODUS 10:1-2 After hearing those words, Moses went to the pharaoh a number of times to renew his pleas for the Hebrews’ freedom. Each plea was rejected and each rejection was followed by a calamity visited upon the Egyptians by Jehovah. The calamities included vermin infestations, plagues, boils on the skin caused by a fine dust settling over the countryside, and finally the murder of each eldest son in Egypt during a night known as the “Passover.” It was only after the Passover that Jehovah stopped “hardening the heart” of the pharaoh so that the Hebrew tribes could leave Egypt.
Posted on: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 18:30:03 +0000
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