Did God harden the Pharoah's heart just so he could smite his son?

Answer 1

For those who choose not to believe (though salvation is free gift) and reject the provision of salvation, then God will solidify that decision accordingly. As one revels in this disbelief, their heart becomes hardened to the need for repentance, and any talk or witness of such will only irritate the hearer. The longer one travels in either direction, the more solidified they will become as time progresses.

Consider the various plagues that were used to convince Pharaoh to let the Hebrew slaves go free in Exodus. Several signs and plagues were given to Pharaoh. Watch the progression of hardening that occurred.

7:13 Pharaoh’s heart grew hard
7:22 Pharaoh’s heart grew hard
8:15 Pharaoh hardened his heart
8:19 Pharaoh’s heart grew hard
8:32 Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also
9:7 The heart of Pharaoh became hard
9:12 The Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh
9:34 Pharaoh hardened his heart, he and his servants
10:1 [The Lord] hardened [Pharaoh’s] heart and the hearts of his servants

Six different times, Pharaoh’s heart was hardened by his own prideful choice. On the seventh, God gave him over to his own way by sealing his position of unbelief. This hardening then spread to those who surround him and the final hardening included them as well. People given over to their established personal doctrine, will most likely congregate with those who will support their stance. As a result, there grows a community of unbelief and mutual rejection of God’s prompting to repentance.

Answer 2

Hey, Pharoah had all the proof he needed that he was fighting against God and he did not back down. He thought he could keep putting God off when he was constantly warned of what would happen for his disobedience.You can go so far after God is faithful to you and God will leave you to your fate.Ditto for Juhas Iscariot.

Answer 3

According to (Ex. 7:3, 4) “I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you.”
Jehovah did not actually harden the heart of Pharaoh so that Pharaoh lost his free will in the matter. His heart hardened because of the message declared to him by Moses and Aaron. It was what caused him to react in hard stubbornness and anger. But since the message Moses and Aaron declared was really Jehovah’s message, the account says Jehovah hardened his heart. The repeated extension of God’s mercy to him by the lifting of plague after plague did not soften the Egyptian ruler, but as is usual in the case of bullies and tyrants this forbearance only made Pharaoh more intolerable, brought to the fore all the more his bullying characteristics.
At Exodus 8:15 the result of relief is shown: “When Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart.” And again after the lifting of one of the plagues: “Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also.” (Ex. 8:32) Also 1 Samuel 6:6 states: “The Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts.” Does it not say Pharaoh hardened his own heart?

Yes, because that was actually what happened. It only says Jehovah did it because that was how Pharaoh reacted to Jehovah’s message. Mercy shown to such arrogant men only serves to let them store up more wrath against themselves. (Rom. 2:4, 5)
It is not unusual for wicked men to interpret Jehovah’s long-suffering as a sign of weakness and thus become more set in their evil ways, thinking the time of reckoning will never come: “Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.” (Eccl. 8:11) Pharaoh’s heart was so set in him.

Answer 4

no he hardened him as fire hardens clay and melts ice...it was pharoahs heart that made it harden