Yahweh murdered all the firstborn babies in Egypt, but not the Pharaoh. Isn't that special?

Answer 1

The premise of this question is wrong in two major respects.


1. Ahead of time, it was explained carefully what must be done to attain salvation. The evidence is that some Egyptian families recognized what needed to be done for salvation, and aligned themselves with the Israelites.

(Exodus 12:7,22) Take some of the blood and splash it upon the two doorposts and the upper part of the doorway belonging to the houses... And you must take a bunch of hyssop and dip it into the blood in a basin and strike upon the upper part of the doorway and upon the two doorposts some of the blood that is in the basin; and none of you should go out of the entrance of his house until morning.

(Exodus 12:37,38) And the sons of Israel proceeded to depart from Rameses for Succoth, to the number of six hundred thousand able-bodied men on foot, besides little ones. And a vast mixed company [literally, "and many aliens"] also went up with them


2. Jehovah waited until after Pharaoh released the Israelites from slavery, and then Jehovah actually *DID* kill Pharaoh.

(Exodus 14:23,27,28) Egyptians took up the pursuit, and all the horses of Pharaoh, his war chariots and his cavalrymen began going in after them, into the midst of the sea [that is, the Red Sea]. ...the sea began to come back to its normal condition... but Jehovah shook the Egyptians off into the midst of the sea. And the waters kept coming back. Finally they covered the war chariots and the cavalrymen belonging to all of Pharaoh’s military forces and who had gone into the sea after them. Not so much as one among them was let remain.

(Psalm 136:1,13,15) Give thanks to Jehovah... To the One severing the Red Sea... And who shook off Pharaoh and his military force into the Red Sea


Why were the firstborn killed in that tenth plague against the stubborn Egyptian slaveholders? These Egyptians pretended that each firstborn incarnated a pagan god. Like each of the previous nine plagues, this tenth plague demonstrated convincingly that the Egyptians' pagan gods were nonexistent and powerless against the true God Jehovah.

(Numbers 33:4) The Egyptians were burying those whom Jehovah had struck among them, that is, all the firstborn; and upon their gods Jehovah had executed judgments.

Answer 2

Did He? Did you tell President Palmer about it? Murder is if His hands are the ones strangling all the first born..... and correction, some of them are not babies, just first born, irregardless of age.Yes that special. But Better than hearing that He went down in flesh as His son and have himself killed for the sins of the people He just created.

Answer 3

I've read this question before. Why not give it a rest? There was probably a plague that killed a lot of people and it was explained as a supernatural act. People were just trying to make sense of the world back then. Now, let's move on...

I have a question about a good Martini recipe, who knows one? If you do answer it, thanks.

Answer 4

I don't believe the Pharaoh was first born. There was another child before him who died young.

Answer 5

Yeah except I dont know who youre speaking of because if youre trying to spell his name correctly youre way off. No vowels my man. But nice try for someone who is not educated in the Bible.

Answer 6

Pharoah's punishment was to return to his people, in disgrace.

A proud and profane man who proclaimed himself God, in opposition to the one, true God, who would have to live with his public shame and defeat, for the rest of his life.

Poetic justice. And it WAS special!

Answer 7

Don't you know that you have to invite the spirit of God inside you, so that he can blind you to the truth of all those horrors he did?

Answer 8

Well, it taught him not to mess with God.<><

Answer 9

no