Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Exodus 3:20
And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go.
20. wonders ] Exo 34:10, Jos 3:5.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
And I will stretch out my hand,…. Or “therefore” e he would stretch out his mighty hand, exert his almighty power; and for this purpose was Pharaoh raised up, and his heart hardened, that God might show his power in him, and on him:
and smite Egypt with all my wonders, which I will do in the midst thereof: with those wondrous plagues, the amazing effects of his almighty power, which were wrought by him in the midst of Egypt, by which their land, their rivers, their persons, and their cattle, were smitten:
and after that he will let you go; this is said for their encouragement, that their faith and patience might hold out, who otherwise seeing him so obstinate and inflexible, might be ready to despair of ever succeeding.
e “ideo”, “propterea”, Noldius, p. 279.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(20) I will stretch out my hand.Hands are stretched out to help and save. God promises here more than He had promised before (Exo. 3:12). He shows how He will be with Moses. He will lend him miraculous aid, performing in his behalf all his wonders, and with them smiting the Egyptians.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Exo 3:20. I will stretch out my hand I will mightily exert my power; see Deu 26:8. Bishop Warburton very judiciously observes, that the two most populous regions at that time in the world, were Canaan and Egypt: the first, distinguished from all others, by its violence and unnatural crimes; the latter, by its superstitions and idolatries. It concerned God’s moral government, that a speedy check should be put to both; the inhabitants of these two places being now ripe for Divine vengeance. And, as the instruments he employed to punish their present enormities, were designed for the barrier against future; the Israelites went out of Egypt with a high hand, which desolated their haughty tyrants; and were led into the possession of the land of Canaan, whose inhabitants they were utterly to exterminate. The dispensation of this providence appears admirable, both in the time and the modes of the punishment. Vice and idolatry had now, as I said, filled up their measure. Egypt, the capital of false religion, being likewise the nursery of arts and sciences, was preserved from total destruction, for the sake of civil life [and various branches of useful knowledge which were to derive their source therefrom]: but the CANAANITES were to be utterly exterminated, to vindicate [not only the Divine law, but] the honour of humanity, and to put a stop to a spreading contagion which changed the reasonable nature into brutal. And God chose to smite this kingdom of Egypt with all his wonders, in support of his elect people, for this very reason; that through the celebrity of so famed an empire, the power of the true God might be spread abroad, and strike the observation of the whole habitable world. See Divine Legat. vol. 2: part 1.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Psa 106:46
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Exo 3:20 And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go.
Ver. 20. And after that he will let you go. ] When he dare hold you no longer; when I have sufficiently tamed him and taught him, as Gideon “taught the men of Succoth with thorns and briers of the wilderness.” Jdg 8:16
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Act 7:1 – Act 13:42
stretch: Exo 6:6, Exo 7:5, Exo 9:15, Eze 20:33
smite: Exo 7:3, Exo 11:9, Deu 4:34, Deu 6:22, Neh 9:10, Psa 105:27, Psa 106:22, Psa 135:8, Psa 135:9, Isa 19:22, Jer 32:20, Jer 32:21, Act 7:36
after that: Exo 11:8, Exo 12:31, Exo 12:39, Gen 15:14, Jdg 6:8, Jdg 8:16, Isa 26:11, Psa 105:38
Reciprocal: Exo 4:21 – wonders Exo 6:1 – with a strong Exo 10:1 – that I Exo 11:1 – afterwards 2Ch 6:32 – thy mighty Psa 78:43 – How Psa 89:10 – thy strong arm