Another view is to take the expression to mean the full brunt of the attack on the Egyptian people. Exodus 9:14 tn Heb“to your heart.” The expression is unusual, but it may be an allusion to the hard heartedness of Pharaoh—his stubbornness and blindness (B. Jacob, Exodus, 274). ...
“And it will come to pass at the same time, when Gog comes against the land of Israel,” says the Lord GOD, “that My fury will show in My face.New American Standard BibleIt will come about on that day, when Gog comes against the land of Israel,” declares the Lord GOD, “that...
4 In that day,” says the Lord, “I will strike every horse with confusion, and its rider with madness; I will open My eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness. 5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, ‘The inhabitants ...
So He struck them with blindness, according to the word of Elisha. / And Elisha told them, “This is not the way, and this is not the city. Follow me, and I will take you to the man you are seeking.” And he led them to Samaria. ...Acts 9:18At that instant, something like...
One appalling evidence of apostasy found in entire churches, pulpits, ministries and thereby hearts of believers themselves is theblindnessanddisregardof the powers of darkness.Derailed from godly commission, retired from the fight, most churches no longer contend for the honor of God nor for the ...
“It would have been easy to die with him,” she went on, and made a slight weary gesture as if giving up the incomprehensible. “He would not! It was like a blindness—and yet it was I who was speaking to him; it was I who stood before his eyes; it was at me that he ...
In this lesson, we take a look at what it means to be built up to be a “holy priesthood” and what it means to be “a chosen race, a royal priesthood.” Recent Posts Revelation 3:7-22 Message to the Churches at Philadelphia and Laodicea ...
And yet, amidst such gross blindness, God did not permit the testimonies which he gave respecting his Son to be buried in silence. Not only, therefore, did true religion open the eyes of devout worshipers of God to perceive that from heaven God was magnifying the glory of Christ, but na...
To pull together our meditation on this portion of Paul’s prayer, I would like to take the thoughts offered in this post and condense them into an expanded, interpretive paraphrase (even as I did in the previous post.) My hope is that this extrapolated expression of Ephesians 3:16 will ...
I nodded my approval of the sound principle, averting my eyes before the subtle unsoundness of the man. ‘He started unsteadily to run. He had to step over legs, avoid stumbling against the heads. Suddenly some one caught hold of his coat from below, and a distressed voice spoke under ...