whose hearts He turned to hate His people, to conspire against His servants.
Parallel translations
- WEB He turned their heart to hate his people, to conspire against his servants.
- KJV He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.
- NKJV He turned their heart to hate His people, To deal craftily with His servants.
- NASB ¶He turned their heart to hate His people, To deal cunningly with His servants.
- NLT Then he turned the Egyptians against the Israelites, and they plotted against the Lord’s servants.
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Quick answer
God allowed the Egyptians' hearts to turn against Israel in hostility. It matters because even opposition unfolds within God's sovereign plan.
Overview
As Israel multiplied, the Egyptians grew to fear and oppress them (Exodus 1:8-14). The psalm acknowledges God's overruling hand even in this hostility, without excusing the oppressors' guilt. The setting of bondage prepared the stage for the Exodus, God's mighty act of redemption and a pattern of the greater deliverance in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
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- Acts 7:19He exploited our people and oppressed our fathers, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.
- Gen 15:13Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.
- 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.
- Exod 1:16“When you help the Hebrew women give birth, observe them on the birthstools. If the child is a son, kill him; but if it is a daughter, let her live.”
- Rom 9:17–19For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”
- 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 10:1Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials, that I may perform these miraculous signs of Mine among them,
- Exod 1:8–14Then a new king, who did not know Joseph, came to power in Egypt.
- Deut 2:30But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into your hand, as is the case this day.
- Exod 2:23After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.
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