For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.
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Gill's Exposition
For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts,.... As he hardened the hearts of Pharaoh and the Egyptians, that his power might be displayed in their destruction:
that they should come against…
Adam Clarke
It was of the Lord to harden their hearts - They had sinned against all the light they had received, and God left them justly to the hardness, obstinacy, and pride of their own hearts; for as they…
We have here the conclusion of this whole matter.
I. A short account is here given of what was done in four things: - 1. The obstinacy of the Canaanites in their opposition to the Israelites. It was…
Cambridge Bible
For it was of the Lord "Forsothe the sentence of the Lord it was," Wyclif. Compare Exo 4:21, "When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put…
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