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.
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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.
- 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.
- 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 8:10He said, “Tomorrow.” He said, “Be it according to your word, that you may know that there is no one like Yahweh our God.
- Deut 28:59–61then Yahweh will make your plagues fearful, and the plagues of your offspring, even great plagues, and of long duration, and severe sicknesses, and of long duration.
- Rev 22:18I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone adds to them, may God add to him the plagues which are written in this book.
- Ps 86:8There is no one like you among the gods, Lord, nor any deeds like your deeds.
- Deut 29:20–22Yahweh will not pardon him, but then Yahweh’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.
- 1 Chr 17:20Yahweh, there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
- Lev 26:28then I will walk contrary to you in wrath. I will also chastise you seven times for your sins.
- Deut 32:39–42“See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.
- Deut 28:15–17But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come on you, and overtake you.
- Jer 10:6There is no one like you, Yahweh. you are great, and your name is great in might.
- Isa 46:9Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is no other. I am God, and there is none like me.
- Rev 18:8Therefore in one day her plagues will come: death, mourning, and famine; and she will be utterly burned with fire; for the Lord God who has judged her is strong.
- 2 Sam 7:22Therefore you are great, Yahweh God. For there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
- Mic 6:13Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins.
- Lev 26:18“‘If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.
- 1 Kgs 8:38whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread out his hands toward this house,
- Jer 19:8I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.
- Lev 26:21“‘If you walk contrary to me, and won’t listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.
- 1 Sam 4:8Woe to us! Who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods that struck the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness.
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