Exodus 7:14

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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 8:15 : 15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he hardened his heart and did not listen to them, just as the LORD had predicted.
  • Exod 10:20 : 20 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not release the Israelites.
  • Exod 10:27 : 27 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he was not willing to release them.
  • Exod 10:1 : 1 The 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 10:4 : 4 But if you refuse to release my people, I am going to bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.
  • Isa 1:20 : 20 But if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” Know for certain that the LORD has spoken.
  • Jer 8:5 : 5 Why, then, do these people of Jerusalem continually turn away from me in apostasy? They hold fast to their deception. They refuse to turn back to me.
  • Jer 9:6 : 6 They do one act of violence after another, and one deceitful thing after another. They refuse to pay attention to me,” says the LORD.
  • Zech 7:12 : 12 Indeed, they made their hearts as hard as diamond, so that they could not obey the Torah and the other words the LORD of Heaven’s Armies had sent by his Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies had poured out great wrath.
  • Heb 12:25 : 25 Take care not to refuse the one who is speaking! For if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much less shall we, if we reject the one who warns from heaven?
  • Exod 9:2 : 2 For if you refuse to release them and continue holding them,
  • 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 8:2 : 2 But if you refuse to release them, then I am going to plague all your territory with frogs.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 7:13
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    13Yet Pharaoh’s heart became hard, and he did not listen to them, just as the LORD had predicted.

  • Exod 10:27
    88%

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

  • Exod 9:34-35
    2 verses
    88%

    34When Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail and thunder ceased, he sinned again: both he and his servants hardened their hearts.

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

  • Exod 9:12-13
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    87%

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

    13The Seventh Blow: Hail The LORD said to Moses,“Get up early in the morning, stand before Pharaoh, and tell him,‘This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has said:“Release my people so that they may serve me!

  • Exod 11:9-10
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    85%

    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 10:1
    85%

    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 10:20
    85%

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

  • Exod 8:32
    85%

    32But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also and did not release the people.

  • Exod 8:15
    84%

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

  • Exod 7:22-23
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    83%

    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.

    23And Pharaoh turned and went into his house. He did not pay any attention to this.

  • Exod 4:21
    83%

    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 9:7
    82%

    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 14:8
    82%

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

  • 1 Sam 6:6
    80%

    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 8:19-20
    2 verses
    80%

    19The magicians said to Pharaoh,“It is the finger of God!” But Pharaoh’s heart remained hard, and he did not listen to them, just as the LORD had predicted.

    20The Fourth Blow: Flies The LORD said to Moses,“Get up early in the morning and position yourself before Pharaoh as he goes out to the water, and tell him,‘This is what the LORD has said,“Release my people that they may serve me!

  • Exod 14:3-5
    3 verses
    79%

    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!”

  • Exod 7:3-4
    2 verses
    79%

    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.

  • Exod 8:1
    79%

    1(7:26) Then the LORD said to Moses,“Go to Pharaoh and tell him,‘This is what the LORD has said:“Release my people in order that they may serve me!

  • Exod 9:1-2
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    79%

    1The Fifth Blow: Disease Then the LORD said to Moses,“Go to Pharaoh and tell him,‘This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has said,“Release my people that they may serve me!

    2For if you refuse to release them and continue holding them,

  • Exod 10:3-4
    2 verses
    79%

    3So Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh and told him,“This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has said:‘How long do you refuse to humble yourself before me? Release my people so that they may serve me!

    4But if you refuse to release my people, I am going to bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.

  • Exod 7:15-16
    2 verses
    78%

    15Go to Pharaoh in the morning when he goes out to the water. Position yourself to meet him by the edge of the Nile, and take in your hand the staff that was turned into a snake.

    16Tell him,‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you to say,“Release my people, that they may serve me in the wilderness!” But until now you have not listened.

  • Exod 5:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    1Opposition to the Plan of God Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said,“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, has said,‘Release my people so that they may hold a pilgrim feast to me in the wilderness.’”

    2But Pharaoh said,“Who is the LORD that I should obey him by releasing Israel? I do not know the LORD, and I will not release Israel!”

  • Exod 6:10-11
    2 verses
    77%

    10Then the LORD said to Moses,

    11“Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt that he must release the Israelites from his land.”

  • Exod 6:1
    77%

    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 14:17
    76%

    17And 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.

  • Exod 11:1
    75%

    1The Tenth Blow: Death The LORD said to Moses,“I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt; after that he will release you from this place. When he releases you, he will drive you out completely from this place.

  • Exod 32:9
    75%

    9Then the LORD said to Moses:“I have seen this people. Look what a stiff-necked people they are!

  • Exod 9:17
    75%

    17You are still exalting yourself against my people by not releasing them.

  • Exod 10:8
    74%

    8So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh, and he said to them,“Go, serve the LORD your God. Exactly who is going with you?”

  • Exod 3:19
    74%

    19But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go, not even under force.

  • Deut 2:30
    74%

    30But King Sihon of Heshbon was unwilling to allow us to pass near him because the LORD our God had made him obstinate and stubborn so that he might deliver him over to you this very day.

  • Exod 4:23
    74%

    23and 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 5:4
    74%

    4The king of Egypt said to them,“Moses and Aaron, why do you cause the people to refrain from their work? Return to your labor!”

  • Exod 8:29
    73%

    29Moses said,“I am going to go out from you and pray to the LORD, and the swarms of flies will go away from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people tomorrow. Only do not let Pharaoh deal falsely again by not releasing the people to sacrifice to the LORD.”

  • Num 14:13
    73%

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