Exodus 9:17

17 You are still exalting yourself against my people, and will not let them go.

Exodus 9:17 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 9:17

As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt
not let them go?
] And so against God himself, disobeying his commands, despising his messengers, and slighting his miracles, and hardening his heart against him, and refusing to let Israel go, after all; thereby showing the most intolerable pride and insolence not only against the Lord's poor people, but against himself, for what is done to them he takes as done to himself; or "dost thou still tread upon my people?"

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 trample them under foot, and make an highway or causeway of them.
F5 (ymeb llwtom Kdwe) "adhuc tu calcas populum meum?" some in Drusius; so Jarchi.

Exodus 9:17 In-Context

15 For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth.

16 But this is why I have let you live: to show you my power, and to make my name resound through all the earth.

17 You are still exalting yourself against my people, and will not let them go.

18 Tomorrow at this time I will cause the heaviest hail to fall that has ever fallen in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.

19 Send, therefore, and have your livestock and everything that you have in the open field brought to a secure place; every human or animal that is in the open field and is not brought under shelter will die when the hail comes down upon them.' "