Exodus 14:17

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And as for me, I am going to harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will come after them, that I may be honored because of Pharaoh and his army and his chariots and his horsemen.

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  • Exod 14:4 : 4 I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will chase after them. I will gain honor because of Pharaoh and because of all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD.” So this is what they did.
  • Exod 14:8 : 8 But the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he chased after the Israelites. Now the Israelites were going out defiantly.
  • Lev 26:28 : 28 I will walk in hostile rage against you and I myself will also discipline you seven times on account of your sins.
  • Deut 32:39 : 39 The Vindication of the Lord“See now that I, indeed I, am he!” says the LORD,“and there is no other god besides me. I kill and give life, I smash and I heal, and none can resist my power.
  • Isa 48:15 : 15 I, I have spoken– yes, I have summoned him; I lead him and he will succeed.
  • Isa 51:12 : 12 “I, I am the one who consoles you. Why are you afraid of mortal men, of mere human beings who are as short-lived as grass?
  • Jer 23:39 : 39 So I will carry you far off and throw you away. I will send both you and the city I gave to you and to your ancestors out of my sight.
  • Ezek 5:8 : 8 “Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I– even I– am against you, and I will execute judgment among you while the nations watch.
  • Ezek 6:3 : 3 Say,‘Mountains of Israel, Hear the word of the Sovereign LORD! This is what the Sovereign LORD says to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys: I am bringing a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.
  • Ezek 34:11 : 11 “‘For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Look, I myself will search for my sheep and seek them out.
  • Ezek 34:20 : 20 “‘Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says to them: Look, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.
  • Hos 5:14 : 14 The Lion Will Carry Israel Off Into Exile I will be like a lion to Ephraim, like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear them to pieces, then I will carry them off, and no one will be able to rescue them!
  • Gen 6:17 : 17 I am about to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy from under the sky all the living creatures that have the breath of life in them. Everything that is on the earth will die,
  • Gen 9:9 : 9 “Look! I now confirm my covenant with you and your descendants after you
  • Exod 4:23 : 23 and I said to you,‘Let my son go that he may serve me,’ but since you have refused to let him go, I will surely kill your son, your firstborn!”’”
  • Exod 7:3 : 3 But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and although I will multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt,
  • Exod 7:13-14 : 13 Yet Pharaoh’s heart became hard, and he did not listen to them, just as the LORD had predicted. 14 The First Blow: Water to Blood The LORD said to Moses,“Pharaoh’s heart is hard; he refuses to release the people.

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  • Exod 14:3-10
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    92%

    3Pharaoh will think regarding the Israelites,‘They are wandering around confused in the land– the desert has closed in on them.’

    4I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will chase after them. I will gain honor because of Pharaoh and because of all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD.” So this is what they did.

    5When it was reported to the king of Egypt that the people had fled, the heart of Pharaoh and his servants was turned against the people, and the king and his servants said,“What in the world have we done? For we have released the people of Israel from serving us!”

    6Then he prepared his chariots and took his army with him.

    7He took six hundred select chariots, and all the rest of the chariots of Egypt, and officers on all of them.

    8But the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he chased after the Israelites. Now the Israelites were going out defiantly.

    9The Egyptians chased after them, and all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh and his horsemen and his army overtook them camping by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, before Baal Zephon.

    10When Pharaoh got closer, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians marching after them, and they were terrified. The Israelites cried out to the LORD,

  • Exod 14:18
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    18And the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD when I have gained my honor because of Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.”

  • Exod 7:3-5
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    81%

    3But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and although I will multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt,

    4Pharaoh will not listen to you. I will reach into Egypt and bring out my regiments, my people the Israelites, from the land of Egypt with great acts of judgment.

    5Then the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD, when I extend my hand over Egypt and bring the Israelites out from among them.

  • Exod 14:23-28
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    81%

    23The Egyptians chased them and followed them into the middle of the sea– all the horses of Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.

    24In the morning watch the LORD looked down on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and cloud, and he threw the Egyptian army into a panic.

    25He jammed the wheels of their chariots so that they had difficulty driving, and the Egyptians said,“Let’s flee from Israel, for the LORD fights for them against Egypt!”

    26The LORD said to Moses,“Extend your hand toward the sea, so that the waters may flow back on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen!”

    27So Moses extended his hand toward the sea, and the sea returned to its normal state when the sun began to rise. Now the Egyptians were fleeing before it, but the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the middle of the sea.

    28The water returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen and all the army of Pharaoh that was coming after the Israelites into the sea– not so much as one of them survived!

  • Exod 10:1
    80%

    1The Eighth Blow: Locusts The LORD said to Moses,“Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, in order to display these signs of mine before him,

  • Exod 4:21
    78%

    21The LORD said to Moses,“When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders I have put under your control. But I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.

  • Exod 10:27
    78%

    27But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he was not willing to release them.

  • Exod 3:20
    77%

    20So I will extend my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders that I will do among them, and after that he will release you.

  • Exod 11:8-10
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    77%

    8All these your servants will come down to me and bow down to me, saying,‘Go, you and all the people who follow you,’ and after that I will go out.” Then Moses went out from Pharaoh in great anger.

    9The LORD said to Moses,“Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.”

    10So Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not release the Israelites from his land.

  • Exod 14:16
    77%

    16And as for you, lift up your staff and extend your hand toward the sea and divide it, so that the Israelites may go through the middle of the sea on dry ground.

  • Num 14:13
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    13Moses said to the LORD,“When the Egyptians hear it– for you brought up this people by your power from among them–

  • Exod 10:20
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    20But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not release the Israelites.

  • Exod 15:19
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    19For the horses of Pharaoh came with his chariots and his footmen into the sea, and the LORD brought back the waters of the sea on them, but the Israelites walked on dry land in the middle of the sea.”

  • Exod 9:12
    76%

    12But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not listen to them, just as the LORD had predicted to Moses.

  • Exod 7:13-14
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    76%

    13Yet Pharaoh’s heart became hard, and he did not listen to them, just as the LORD had predicted.

    14The First Blow: Water to Blood The LORD said to Moses,“Pharaoh’s heart is hard; he refuses to release the people.

  • Exod 9:35
    75%

    35So Pharaoh’s heart remained hard, and he did not release the Israelites, as the LORD had predicted through Moses.

  • 1 Sam 6:6
    75%

    6Why harden your hearts like the Egyptians and Pharaoh did? When God treated them harshly, didn’t the Egyptians send the Israelites on their way?

  • Exod 9:14
    75%

    14For this time I will send all my plagues on your very self and on your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.

  • Isa 19:1
    75%

    1The Lord Will Judge Egypt This is an oracle about Egypt: Look, the LORD rides on a swift-moving cloud and approaches Egypt. The idols of Egypt tremble before him; the Egyptians lose their courage.

  • Exod 7:22
    75%

    22But the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts, and so Pharaoh’s heart remained hard, and he refused to listen to Moses and Aaron– just as the LORD had predicted.

  • Ezek 30:19
    75%

    19I will execute judgments on Egypt. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”

  • Exod 15:4
    75%

    4The chariots of Pharaoh and his army he has thrown into the sea, and his chosen officers were drowned in the Red Sea.

  • Josh 24:6
    75%

    6When I brought your fathers out of Egypt, you arrived at the sea. The Egyptians chased your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea.

  • Exod 8:15
    74%

    15But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he hardened his heart and did not listen to them, just as the LORD had predicted.

  • Isa 19:4
    74%

    4I will hand Egypt over to a harsh master; a powerful king will rule over them,” says the Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies.

  • Exod 6:1
    73%

    1Then the LORD said to Moses,“Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh, for compelled by my strong hand he will release them, and by my strong hand he will drive them out of his land.”

  • Exod 9:7
    73%

    7Pharaoh sent representatives to investigate, and indeed, not even one of the livestock of Israel had died. But Pharaoh’s heart remained hard, and he did not release the people.

  • Exod 14:13
    73%

    13Moses said to the people,“Do not fear! Stand firm and see the salvation of the LORD that he will provide for you today; for the Egyptians that you see today you will never, ever see again.

  • Exod 14:30
    73%

    30So the LORD saved Israel on that day from the power of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the shore of the sea.

  • Exod 12:12
    73%

    12I will pass through the land of Egypt in the same night, and I will attack all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both of humans and of animals, and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment. I am the LORD.

  • Ps 135:9
    73%

    9He performed awesome deeds and acts of judgment in your midst, O Egypt, against Pharaoh and all his servants.

  • Deut 11:3
    73%

    3They did not see the awesome deeds he performed in the midst of Egypt against Pharaoh king of Egypt and his whole land,