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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.
Exodus 9:14 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • 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.
  • BSB 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.
  • 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

Cross-references · 19

  • Exod 8:10And he said, To morrow. And he said, Be it according to thy word: that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the LORD our God.
  • Deut 28:59–61Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
  • Rev 22:18For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
  • Ps 86:8Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto thy works.
  • Deut 29:20–22The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.
  • 1 Chr 17:20O LORD, there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
  • Lev 26:28Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
  • Deut 32:39–42See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
  • Deut 28:15–17But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
  • Jer 10:6Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
  • Isa 46:9Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
  • Rev 18:8Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
  • 2 Sam 7:22Wherefore thou art great, O LORD God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
  • Mic 6:13Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.
  • Lev 26:18And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
  • 1 Kgs 8:38What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
  • Jer 19:8And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.
  • Lev 26:21And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.
  • 1 Sam 4:8Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods? these are the Gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues in the wilderness.

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  • VideoBibleProject — Exodus videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

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    Hebrew/Greek interlinear, word definitions, and cross-references for this verse.

Christ at the center

The Passover lamb whose blood turns away death, the exodus through the sea, the manna, the rock, and the tabernacle where God dwells with his people all foreshadow Jesus — our Passover, our redemption, the bread from heaven, and God-with-us in the flesh.

How Exodus 9:14 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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