Exo 15:26

He said, "If you listen carefully to the voice of the LORD

your God and do what is right in His eyes, if you pay attention

to His commands and keep all His decrees, I will not bring on

you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I

am the LORD, who heals you."

Matthew Henry Commentary

Jehovah Rophe-- The Lord is My Healer

There He made a statute and an ordinance, and settled matters

with them. There He proved them, that is, there He put them

upon the trial, admitted them as probationers for His favour.

In short, He tells them, v. 26, (1.) What He expected from

them, and that was, in one word, obedience. They must

diligently hearken to His voice, and give ear to His

commandments, that they might know their duty, and not

transgress through ignorance; and they must take care

in every thing to do that which was right in God's sight,

and to keep all His statutes. They must not think, now

that they were delivered from their bondage in Egypt,

that they had no lord over them, but were their own

masters; no, therefore they must look upon themselves

as God's servants, because He had loosed their bonds,

(Ps. 116:16; Lu. 1:74-75).

(2.) what they might then expect from Him: I will put

none of these diseases upon thee, that is, "I will not

bring upon thee any of the plagues of Egypt." This

intimates that, if they were rebellious and disobedient,

the very plagues which they had seen inflicted upon

their enemies should be brought upon them; so it is

threatened, (Deut. 28:60). God's judgments upon Egypt,

as they were mercies to Israel, opening the way to their

deliverance, so they were warnings to Israel, and designed

to awe them into obedience. Let not the Israelites think,

because God had thus highly honoured them in the great

things He had done for them, and had proclaimed them to

all the world His favourites, that therefore He would

connive at their sins and let them do as they would.

No, God is no respecter of persons; a rebellious Israelite

shall fare no better than a rebellious Egyptian; and so

they found, to their cost, before the got to Canaan.

"But, if thou wilt be obedient, thou shalt be safe and

happy;" the threatening is implied only, but the promise

is expressed: "I am the Lord that healeth thee, and will

take care of thy comfort wherever thou goest." Note, God

is the great physician. If we be kept well, it is He that

keeps us; if we be made well, it is He that restores us;

He is our life, and the length of our days.