And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
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Gill's Exposition
But made his own people to go forth like sheep,.... The people of Israel, whom the Lord chose to be his peculiar people above all others; these he caused to go forth out of Egypt, with a mighty hand…
Barnes' Notes
And smote all the firstborn in Egypt - See Exo 11:4-5; Exo 12:29-30. The chief of their strength - Those on whom they relied; their firstborn; their pride; their glory; their heirs. Compare Gen 49:3.…
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
the chief oftheir strength The beginning, or, firstlings of strength, a term applied to firstborn sons in Gen 49:3; Deu 21:17. So Psa 105:36.
in the tabernacles of Ham R.V. tents. Ham was the ancestor…
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