Dakes bible commentary9/24/2023 ![]() ![]() You get an Egypt building its wealth and security on the backs of an abused, oppressed, and enslaved Israel. Pharaoh is what happens when an entire nation redefines good and evil apart from God’s wisdom. He embodies the strange and tragic turn the human heart can take when one person or society places their own values and well-being above another person or society. ![]() This king, or sequence of kings, is the epitome of human evil. Rather, he wants us to see Pharaoh as an archetype of the pattern of human rebellion that began in the garden and culminated in Babylon (Genesis 3-11). The author doesn’t want us to focus on one single king. It raises the interesting question of why the author doesn’t actually name the Pharaoh who opposed Moses (was he Thutmose II or III, or Ramses I or II?). If you pay attention, you’ll see that this royal title refers to a sequence of Egyptian kings over many generations. ![]() Pharoah is not one single king in Exodus.
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