great cry] Chap. 11. 6. It was meet it should be a great cry, and that they should have great cause for it, and they had the greater cause the more that were slaine: Here their crueltie recoyles upon them with calamitie; for they made Gods people cry, by reason of their bondage, Exodus 2:23. and when they were intreated to shew favour, they increased the rigour; now it is their turne to cry, and God hardens his heart against them, as they against his people. See Proverbs 21:13. James 2:13. not a house] Of those houses, wherein were any first born, either of men, or of beasts, according to the former observation, vers. 29. it was very strange, if any family had not some dead in it, and many (as hath been observed on that verse) might have many dead.