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This is contrary to the traditional Christian view of the event based on the Book of Exodus, which contends that God hardened the heart of the Pharaoh. [6] Abezethibou went with the Egyptian army in the pursuit of the Israelites, and the collapsing Red Sea crushed and drowned him, where he was imprisoned by a pillar of water.
God has Moses stretch his staff over Egypt, and a wind brings a locust swarm. The swarm covers the sky, casting a shadow over Egypt, consuming all remaining crops. Pharaoh again promises to allow the children of Israel to worship God in the desert. As promised, God hardens Pharaoh's heart, and Pharaoh does not allow Israel to leave.
For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in. And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I am the Lord. And they did so. [17]
God has Moses stretch his staff over Egypt, and a wind brings a locust swarm. The swarm covers the sky, casting a shadow over Egypt, consuming all remaining crops. Pharaoh again promises to allow the children of Israel to worship God in the desert. As promised, God hardens Pharaoh's heart, and Pharaoh does not allow Israel to leave.
God intended to harden Pharaoh's heart, so that God might show signs and marvels. God told how Aaron could cast down his rod and it would turn into a snake, and Aaron did so before Pharaoh. Pharaoh caused his magicians to do the same, but Aaron’s rod swallowed their rods. Pharaoh's heart stiffened. God began visiting ten plagues on Egypt.
The magicians tried to produce gnats by their secret arts, but they could not. There were gnats on both humans and animals. And the magicians said to Pharaoh, "This is the finger of God!" But Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, just as the Lord had said. —
The saying Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad, sometimes given in Latin as Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat (literally: Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first deprives of reason) or Quem Iuppiter vult perdere, dementat prius (literally: Those whom Jupiter wishes to destroy, he first deprives of reason) has been used in English literature since at least the 17th century.
Horemheb is a major character in Katie Hamstead's trilogy, Kiya: Hope of the Pharaoh, Kiya: Mother of the King and Kiya: Rise of a New Dynasty. Horemheb is a key character in Kyah Merritt's historical trilogy A Legacy of Light (trilogy). Horemheb is a minor character in the novels Nefertiti and The Heretic Queen by Michelle Moran.