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[83] At the same time, the Bible teaches that God "rules the hearts and actions of all men." [84] The Bible contains many portrayals of God as ruling "hearts and actions" for evil. Following are a few examples: [85] God said, "I will harden [Pharaoh's] heart, so that he will not let the people go" (Exodus 4:21).
After his fall, Abezethibou roamed Egypt, and, after Moses let the Israelites leave Egypt, the Pharaoh became hardened of heart. [4] 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 ]
God intended to harden Pharaoh's heart, so that God might show signs and marvels, so that the Egyptians would know that the Lord was God. [15] Moses and Aaron did as God commanded. [16] Moses was 80 years old, and Aaron 83 years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh. [17] The third reading and the fourth open portion end here. [18]
Reading the words of Exodus 10:1, "and the heart of his servants," a midrash taught that when Pharaoh's heart softened, his servants' hardened, and when they softened, he hardened. When both softened, God hardened their hearts, as Exodus 10:1 states. God closed their hearts to repentance to punish them for their earlier stubbornness. [81]
Many [neutrality is disputed] scholars interpret the book of Joshua as referring to what would now be considered genocide. [1] When the Israelites arrive in the Promised Land, they are commanded to annihilate "the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites" who already lived there, to avoid being tempted into idolatry. [2]
Warfare represents a special category of biblical violence and is a topic the Bible addresses, directly and indirectly, in four ways: there are verses that support pacifism, and verses that support non-resistance; 4th century theologian Augustine found the basis of just war in the Bible, and preventive war which is sometimes called crusade has also been supported using Bible texts.
God hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not allow the Hebrews to leave, and then God sent various disasters onto the whole of Egypt. Exodus includes the story of the killing of every firstborn child in Egypt as the final punishment for having enslaved the Israelites.
God told Moses to be sure to perform for Pharaoh all the wonders that God had put in his hand, but God would harden his heart, and he would not let the people go. [65] And Moses was to tell Pharaoh that Israel was God's firstborn son, and Pharaoh was to let God's son go to serve God, and should he refuse, God would kill Pharaoh's firstborn son ...