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

Jehovah said: That night I will go through the land of Egypt. I will strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. I will execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt! I am Jehovah!

And will not

When the angel stretched out his arm to destroy Jerusalem, Jehovah changed his mind about the disaster. Enough! He said to the angel who was destroying the people. Put down your weapon. The angel of Jehovah was at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

The angel of Jehovah put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. The people got up the next morning and saw all the dead bodies!

Go through the whole city of Jerusalem and put a mark (signature) on the forehead of everyone who is distressed and troubled because of all the disgusting things being done in the city.

Do not grumble like some of them grumbled. Venomous snakes killed them.

By faith he kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them.

You have come to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks in a better way than the blood of Abel.

He said: Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees, until we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.

They were commanded not to hurt the grass of the earth, nor any tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of God in their foreheads.

General references

Some of the blood must be put on the two doorposts and above the door of each house where the animals are to be eaten.