Exodus 12:23

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.

Will pass through

Exodus 12:12

And will not

General references

Exodus 12:7

Bible References

Will pass through

“I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night and strike every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. I am Yahweh; I will execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt.

And will not

Then the angel extended his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, but the Lord relented concerning the destruction and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough, withdraw your hand now!” The angel of the Lord was then at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

Then the angel of the Lord

went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies!

“Pass throughout the city of Jerusalem,” the Lord said to him, “and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the detestable practices committed in it.”

Nor should we complain as some of them did,

and were killed by the destroyer.

By faith he instituted the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn might not touch the Israelites.

to Jesus (mediator of a new covenant), and to the sprinkled blood, which says better things than the blood of Abel.

“Don’t harm the earth or the sea or the trees until we seal the slaves of our God on their foreheads.”

They were told not to harm the grass of the earth, or any green plant, or any tree, but only people who do not have God’s seal on their foreheads.

General references

They must take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses where they eat them.