Otherwise, I will send all My plagues against you and your officials and your people, so you may know that there is no one like Me in all the earth.
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- WEB For this time I will send all my plagues against your heart, against your officials, and against your people; that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.
- KJV For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth.
- NKJV for at this time I will send all My plagues to your very heart, and on your servants and on your people, that you may know that there is none like Me in all the earth.
- NASB For this time I am going to send all My plagues on you and your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is no one like Me in all the earth.
- NLT If you don’t, I will send more plagues on you and your officials and your people. Then you will know that there is no one like me in all the earth.
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Quick answer
God declares this time he will send the full force of his plagues so Pharaoh will know there is none like Yahweh. The aim of the judgments is to reveal God's incomparable supremacy.
Overview
The phrase 'all my plagues against your heart' signals an escalation aimed directly at Pharaoh's resistance. God's stated purpose is not destruction for its own sake but the knowledge of his unrivaled glory throughout the earth. This concern that the nations know him as the one true God recurs across Scripture. The plagues are ultimately a self-revelation of God, climaxing in the redemption that points forward to Christ.
Cross-references & the web
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- Exod 8:10“Tomorrow,” Pharaoh answered. “May it be as you say,” Moses replied, “so that you may know that there is no one like the LORD our God.
- Deut 28:59–61He will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary disasters, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses.
- Rev 22:18I testify to everyone who hears the words of prophecy in this book: If anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book.
- Ps 86:8O Lord, there is none like You among the gods, nor any works like Yours.
- Deut 29:20–22The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven
- 1 Chr 17:20O LORD, there is none like You, and there is no God but You, according to everything we have heard with our own ears.
- Lev 26:28then I will walk in fury against you, and I, even I, will punish you sevenfold for your sins.
- Deut 32:39–42See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.
- Deut 28:15–17If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
- Jer 10:6There is none like You, O LORD. You are great, and Your name is mighty in power.
- Isa 46:9Remember what happened long ago, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me.
- Rev 18:8Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and grief and famine—and she will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”
- 2 Sam 7:22How great You are, O Lord GOD! For there is none like You, and there is no God but You, according to everything we have heard with our own ears.
- Mic 6:13Therefore I am striking you severely, to ruin you because of your sins.
- Lev 26:18And if after all this you will not obey Me, I will proceed to punish you sevenfold for your sins.
- 1 Kgs 8:38then may whatever prayer or petition Your people Israel make—each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hands toward this temple—
- Jer 19:8I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.
- Lev 26:21If you walk in hostility toward Me and refuse to obey Me, I will multiply your plagues seven times, according to your sins.
- 1 Sam 4:8Woe to us! Who will deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness.
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