Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Joshua 24:5
I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out.
5. I sent Moses also and Aaron ] Comp. Exo 3:10. This is the second proof of the Divine favour, the deliverance of Israel out of Egypt. The chief incidents of this great event are succinctly alluded to; (1) the mission of Moses and Aaron; (2) the infliction of the plagues upon Egypt; (3) the destruction of the Egyptians in the Red Sea.
I plagued Egypt ] See Exodus 7-12. “Y smoot Egipt with many signes and wondris,” Wyclif. (1) The turning the water into blood; (2) frogs; (3) lice, or gnats; (4) flies; (5) murrain; (6) boils and blains; (7) thunder, lightning, and hail; (8) locusts; (9) darkness; (10) slaying of the firstborn.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
According to that which I did, i.e. in such manner, and with such plagues as I inflicted, and are recorded.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
I sent Moses also and Aaron,…. To demand Israel’s dismission of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and to be the deliverers of them:
and I plagued Egypt according to that which I did amongst them; inflicting ten plagues upon them for refusing to let Israel go:
and afterwards I brought you out; that is, out of Egypt, with an high hand, and outstretched arm.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
5. Afterward I brought you out The nation is contemplated as having a continuous life, so that the word you does not refer to the Hebrews then alive, as the term fathers in the next verse sufficiently indicates.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Jos 24:5 I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out.
Ver. 5. And I brought you out. ] As brands out of the fire; as many of you here present as were then under twenty years of age: and a great mercy it was to be pulled out of such a superstitious place. Gregory Nazianzen reporteth of Athens, that it was the most plagueful place in the world for superstition, even another Egypt. And he acknowledgeth it a great mercy that God did deliver him and Basil from those infections.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
I sent. Compare Exo 3:10; Exo 4:14-16.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
sent: Exo 3:10, Exo 4:12, Exo 4:13, Psa 105:26
plagued: Exo 7:1 – Exo 12:51, Psa 78:43-51, Psa 105:27-36, Psa 135:8, Psa 135:9, Psa 136:10
Reciprocal: Exo 6:26 – That Aaron Num 33:1 – under the hand Deu 29:2 – Ye have seen all Jos 24:17 – General