“He that feared the word of the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses:”
Those officials of Pharaoh who feared the word of the Lord hurried to bring their slaves and their livestock inside. This verse is quietly remarkable: some of Pharaoh's own officials feared the word of the Lord and acted on it. Not all of Egypt is uniform in its resistance. Six plagues in, some people within the empire that oppresses Israel have been sufficiently convinced to take God's warning seriously. They are not Israelites; they are Egyptian officials. But they feared the word of the Lord. James 2:19 notes that even the demons believe there is one God — fear is not saving faith. But it is the beginning of a response to reality. The officials who acted are not celebrated in the text, but they survived. The word they feared protected them. John 8:51 says whoever obeys my word will never see death — the principle of life through heeding God's word operates even for Egyptians.
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