Hardened Hearts

Exodus 9:34
When Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail and thunder had stopped, he sinned again: He and his officials hardened their hearts.
Exodus 10:1
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials so that I may perform these miraculous signs of mine among them
Exodus 14:17
I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them. And I will gain glory through Pharaoh and all his army, through his chariots and his horsemen.

These fit with the 18 verses of 2/3/05, and 10:1 actually appears there, bringing to 20 the verses dealing with Pharoah's hard heart. I kept all three of these for today, because they are a near-perfect triad. In chapter 9, Pharoah and the officials hardened their hearts. In chapter 10, God takes credit for hardening the hearts so that He can complete the set of signs He has planned. By chapter 14, God is ready to tell Moses the best part, that the Israelites are about to walk through the Red Sea. Just to top it off, the Egyptians will have hearts so numb and dull that they won't even perceive the doom awaiting them; they will walk right into it.
This, to me, puts a new aspect on the hard heart. A hard heart is not only cold of emotion, it has no perception of God and God's work. A hard heart stupidly chases down its own desires and plans in its own fleshly way, heedless of the miracles all around.