But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I will multiply My signs and wonders in the land of Egypt,
Parallel translations
- WEB I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.
- KJV And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.
- NKJV And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt.
- NASB But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, so that I may multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt.
- NLT But I will make Pharaoh’s heart stubborn so I can multiply my miraculous signs and wonders in the land of Egypt.
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Quick answer
God announces He will harden Pharaoh's heart and multiply signs in Egypt. The plagues will display God's power amid Pharaoh's resistance.
Overview
God foretells both Pharaoh's hardening and the multiplication of His wonders, setting the theological frame for the coming plagues. Scripture elsewhere also says Pharaoh hardened his own heart, and faithful Christians have long held these truths together: Pharaoh is morally responsible even as God sovereignly works out His purpose. This same tension appears in Romans 9, where Paul cites Pharaoh to display God's freedom to show both judgment and mercy in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 18
- Exod 4:21The LORD instructed Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders that I have put within your power. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.
- Exod 11:9The LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that My wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.”
- Acts 7:36He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness.
- Ps 135:9He sent signs and wonders into your midst, O Egypt, against Pharaoh and all his servants.
- John 4:48Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will never believe.”
- Rom 15:19by the power of signs and wonders, and by the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.
- Ps 105:27–36They performed His miraculous signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
- Ps 78:43–51when He performed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the fields of Zoan.
- Acts 2:22Men of Israel, listen to this message: Jesus of Nazareth was a man certified by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs, which God did among you through Him, as you yourselves know.
- Jer 32:20–21You performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and You do so to this very day, both in Israel and among all mankind. And You have made a name for Yourself, as is the case to this day.
- Isa 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the dragon?
- Exod 9:16But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power to you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.
- Deut 4:34Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?
- Exod 4:29Then Moses and Aaron went and assembled all the elders of the Israelites,
- Exod 4:7“Put your hand back inside your cloak,” said the LORD. So Moses put his hand back inside his cloak, and when he took it out, it was restored, like the rest of his skin.
- Deut 7:19the great trials that you saw, the signs and wonders, and the mighty hand and outstretched arm by which the LORD your God brought you out. The LORD your God will do the same to all the peoples you now fear.
- Neh 9:10You performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, all his officials, and all the people of his land, for You knew they had acted with arrogance against our fathers. You made a name for Yourself that endures to this day.
- Mic 7:15As in the days when you came out of Egypt, I will show My wonders.
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