Harden Pharah

Why God makes Pharaoh’s heart harden? God gives people free will, so thereby people can choose their action by themselves. Nevertheless, God can inspire everyone to change his or her view like Abraham and Moses who are the people God call. In this manner, God not only chooses the Israelite to save them from Egypt, but also forgives them so that the Israelite becomes God’s nation although they very often wobble to follow Moses who is the agent of God in the wilderness. However, starting his working for redeeming the Israelite, God hardens Pharaoh’s mind not to release the Israelites on Moses’ leading while God leads the Israelite out of Egypt.

3 But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and I will multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt. 4 When Pharaoh does not listen to you, I will lay my hand upon Egypt and bring my people the Israelites, company by company, out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment. 5 The Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out from among them.” 6 Moses and Aaron did
During the process of the plagues God gives Egypt, Pharaoh’s mind becomes increasingly harder. To do this, God can show all the people in Egypt and the Israelite who he is and how much he is strong more than Pharaoh through the Passover with last 10th Plague. Jorge Pixley, the author of “Exodus” in Global Bible Commentary, asserts, “The performance of these signs and wonders, which have the triple purpose of 1) showing that YHWH, the God of the Hebrews, is a powerful God; 2) softening the heart of Pharaoh; and 3) terrorizing the population to demand the Hebrews’ expulsion from the land of