Psalm 105:26 → Exodus 7

Psalm 105:26 is the hinge of the psalm's exodus recital: "He sent Moses His servant (עֶבֶד, ebed), and Aaron, whom He had chosen (בָּחַר, bachar)." Exodus 7 is where that sending takes public form — "See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet" (7:1) — and the plague cycle begins. The psalm's own catalogue of the plagues runs from verse 27 to verse 36, and its tightest verbal contact with Exodus 7 falls at verse 29, which reuses the chapter's exact chain: הָפַךְ (haphak, "turned"), מַיִם (mayim, "waters"), דָּם (dam, "blood"), דָּגָה (dagah, "fish"), מוּת (muth, "died"), against Exodus 7:20-21. What verse 26 contributes is the agency behind all of it. Nothing in Egypt happens because Moses is capable; everything happens because God sent him, and chose Aaron beside him. Psalm 105 then makes the entire recital an argument about promise-keeping. It is framed by "He remembers His covenant forever, the word He ordained for a thousand generations" (105:8) and "For He remembered His holy promise to Abraham His servant" (105:42). Egypt's river runs with blood because a word spoken to a childless old man is being kept. That is why the psalm is praise and not merely chronicle — the plagues are the visible edge of God's faithfulness. The same logic governs the sending that answers all the others: "when the time had fully come, God sent His Son" (Galatians 4:4). Every rescue in Scripture is first a keeping of His word, which is why His people can rest their whole weight on it.