He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
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Gill's Exposition
And smote all the firstborn in Egypt,.... From the prince to the peasant; and not only the firstborn of men, but of beasts also, Exo 12:29,
the chief of their strength; or first of it, as the…
Barnes' Notes
He made a way to his anger - Margin, he weighed a path. He leveled a path for it; he took away all hindrance to it; he allowed it to have free scope. The idea of weighing is not in the original. The…
The matter and scope of this paragraph are the same with the former, showing what great mercies God had bestowed upon Israel, how provoking they had been, what judgments he had brought upon them for…
Cambridge Bible
He made a way to his anger Lit., he levelled a path for his anger, i.e. gave it free course.
but gave their life over to the pestilence This is the natural rendering of the words in this context. The…
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