Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Exodus 10:17
Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and entreat the LORD your God, that he may take away from me this death only.
17. only this once ] Gen 18:32.
this death only ] only this terribly destructive pest. The term ‘death’ depicts vividly the consternation which the Pharaoh feels at it.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
This death only – Pliny calls locusts a pestilence brought on by divine wrath. Pharaoh now recognizes the justice of his servants apprehensions, Exo 10:7.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 17. Forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once] What a strange case! And what a series of softening and hardening, of sinning and repenting! Had he not now another opportunity of returning to God? But the love of gain, and the gratification of his own self-will and obstinacy, finally prevailed.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
I desire no further favour, I will no more offend nor need your pardon.
This death; this deadly plague, compare 2Ki 4:40; 2Co 11:23. Besides it did destroy the life of herbs and trees, yea, of beasts and men, either directly, or at least by consequence, in depriving them of the necessary supports of life.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin, only this once,…. Pretending that he would never offend any more, and if he did, he did not desire it should be forgiven him, but that due punishment should be inflicted on him. These words are directed to Moses, he being the principal person that came to him with a commission from the Lord, and who was made a god to Pharaoh; and therefore he does not ask forgiveness of the Lord, but of Moses:
and entreat the Lord your God, that he may take away from me this death only; this deadly plague of the locusts, which devouring all the fruits of the earth, must in course produce a famine, and that the death of men. Moreover, the author of the book of Wisdom says, that the bites of the locusts killed men,
“For them the bitings of grasshoppers and flies killed, neither was there found any remedy for their life: for they were worthy to be punished by such.” (Wisdom 16:9)
Pharaoh was sensible that this plague came from God, and that he only could remove it; and therefore begs the prayers of Moses and Aaron to him for the removal of it, and suggests that he would never desire such another favour; but that if he offended again, and another plague was inflicted on him, he could not desire it to be taken away; by which he would be understood, that he determined to offend no more, or give them any occasion for any other judgment to come upon him, was he once clear of this.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(17) This death.Comp, Exo. 10:7. The entire destruction of the harvest threatened death to large numbers of the poorer class of persons.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Exo 10:17. Take away from me this death Locusts were generally esteemed an immediate token of the Divine displeasure; and, from the universal and almost instantaneous destruction they occasioned in a country, they are very emphatically and justly styled a death.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Exo 10:17 Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat the LORD your God, that he may take away from me this death only.
Ver. 17. Now therefore forgive. ] Moses must forgive his sin: God is not in all his thoughts. David cries, Peccavi; Pharaoh, Perii: David, “Against thee, thee only, have I sinned”; Pharaoh cries to Moses to pardon his sin. Man may forgive the trespass, but God only the transgression.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
death. Figure of speech Metonymy (of Effect), App-6, death put for the plague which caused it.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
forgive: 1Sa 15:25
and entreat: Exo 8:8, Exo 9:28, 1Ki 13:6, Isa 26:16, Rom 15:30, Act 8:24
this death: 2Ki 4:40, 2Co 1:10
Reciprocal: Exo 8:28 – entreat Num 22:34 – I Have sinned Jdg 11:8 – the elders 1Sa 12:19 – Pray for thy 2Sa 19:19 – did perversely Pro 28:13 – and forsaketh Jer 34:11 – General Jer 37:3 – Pray Mat 27:4 – I have sinned
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Exo 10:17. Pharaoh desires their prayers that this death only might be taken away, not this sin: he deprecates the plague of locusts, not the plague of a hard heart.