Exodus 4:21

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Summary

And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.

Wonders

Exodus 3:20

I will harden

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Bible References

Wonders

So I will extend my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders that I will do among them, and after that he will release you.

I will harden

But I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and although I will multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt,

But the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not listen to them, just as the Lord had predicted to Moses.

The Lord said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, in order to display these signs of mine before him,

But the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he chased after the Israelites. Now the Israelites were going out defiantly.

So the Lord said, "My spirit will not remain in humankind indefinitely, since they are mortal. They will remain for 120 more years."

But King Sihon of Heshbon was unwilling to allow us to pass near him because the Lord our God had made him obstinate and stubborn so that he might deliver him over to you this very day.

for the Lord determined to make them obstinate so they would attack Israel. He wanted Israel to annihilate them without mercy, as he had instructed Moses.

He replied, 'I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouths of all his prophets.' The Lord said, 'Deceive and overpower him. Go out and do as you have proposed.'

He caused them to hate his people, and to mistreat his servants.

Make the hearts of these people calloused; make their ears deaf and their eyes blind! Otherwise they might see with their eyes and hear with their ears, their hearts might understand and they might repent and be healed."

Why, Lord, do you make us stray from your ways, and make our minds stubborn so that we do not obey you? Return for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your inheritance!

"He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they would not see with their eyes and understand with their heart, and turn to me, and I would heal them."

And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done.

So then, God has mercy on whom he chooses to have mercy, and he hardens whom he chooses to harden.

as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, to this very day."

to the latter an odor from death to death, but to the former a fragrance from life to life. And who is adequate for these things?

and with every kind of evil deception directed against those who are perishing, because they found no place in their hearts for the truth so as to be saved.

and a stumbling-stone and a rock to trip over. They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.

General references

Yet Pharaoh's heart became hard, and he did not listen to them, just as the Lord had predicted.

But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also and did not release the people.

But the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not listen to them, just as the Lord had predicted to Moses.

But the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not release the Israelites.