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104:17. He sent a man before them: Joseph, who was sold for a slave.
104:18. They humbled his feet in fetters: the iron pierced his soul,
104:19. Until his word came. The word of the Lord inflamed him.
104:20. The king sent, and he released him: the ruler of the people, and
he set him at liberty.
104:21. He made him master of his house, and ruler of all his
possession.
104:22. That he might instruct his princes as himself, and teach his
ancients wisdom.
104:23. And Israel went into Egypt: and Jacob was a sojourner in the
land of Cham.
104:24. And he increased his people exceedingly: and strengthened them
over their enemies.
104:25. He turned their heart to hate his people: and to deal
deceitfully with his servants.
He turned their heart, etc... Not that God (who is never the author of
sin) moved the Egyptians to hate and persecute his people; but that the
Egyptians took occasion of hating and envying them, from the sight of
the benefits which God bestowed upon them.
104:26. He sent Moses his servant: Aaron the man whom he had chosen.
104:27. He gave them power to shew them signs, and his wonders in the
land of Cham.
104:28. He sent darkness, and made it obscure: and grieved not his
words.
Grieved not his words... That is, he was not wanting to fulfil his
words: or he did not grieve Moses and Aaron, the carriers of his words:
or he did not grieve his words, that is, his sons, the children of
Israel, who enjoyed light whilst the Egyptians were oppressed with
darkness.
104:29. He turned their waters into blood, and destroyed their fish.
104:30. Their land brought forth frogs, in the inner chambers of their
kings.
104:31. He spoke, and there came divers sorts of flies and sciniphs in
all their coasts.
Sciniphs... See the annotation, Ex.8.16.
104:32. He gave them hail for rain, a burning fire in the land.
104:33. And he destroyed their vineyards and their fig trees: and he
broke in pieces the trees of their coasts.
104:34. He spoke, and the locust came, and the bruchus, of which there
was no number.
Bruchus... An insect of the locust kind.
104:35. And they devoured all the grass in their land, and consumed all
the fruit of their ground.
104:36. And he slew all the firstborn in their land: the firstfruits of
all their labour.
104:37. And he brought them out with silver and gold: and there was not
among their tribes one that was feeble.
104:38. Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them lay upon
them.
104:39. He spread a cloud for their protection, and fire to give them
light in the night.
104:40. They asked, and the quail came: and he filled them with the
bread of heaven.
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