Chapter 7: Egypt Is Destroyed

GOD“Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart, that you may tell your son and your son's son the mighty things I have done in Egypt.”— Exodus 10:1-2

Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh.

MOSES“How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? If you refuse to let My people go, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory. They shall cover the face of the earth, and they shall eat everything the hail left behind.”— Exodus 10:3-6

Moses turned and walked out. But before Pharaoh could respond, his own servants confronted him.

PHARAOH'S SERVANTS“How long shall this man be a snare to us? Let the men go. Do you not yet know that Egypt is destroyed?”— Exodus 10:7

He called Moses and Aaron back.

PHARAOH“Go, serve the LORD your God. Who are the ones that are going?”

MOSES“We will go with our young and our old, with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds.”

PHARAOH“Not so! Go now, you who are men, and serve the LORD, for that is what you desired.”— Exodus 10:8-11

They were driven out of Pharaoh's presence.

Moses raised his rod over Egypt. God sent an east wind that blew all day and all night, and by morning the locusts had arrived. They covered the land until the ground was dark with them. Nothing green remained in all of Egypt.

Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste.

PHARAOH“I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you. Please forgive my sin only this once, and entreat the LORD your God, that He may take away from me this death only.”— Exodus 10:16-17

Moses prayed. God sent a powerful west wind that swept every locust into the Red Sea. Not one remained. But God had already closed the exits behind Pharaoh.