Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 105:25

25. He turned their heart to hate his people , to deal subtilly with his servants .

Not by putting this wicked hatred into them, which is not consistent either with the holiness of Gods nature, or with the truth of his word, and which was altogether unnecessary, because they had that and all other wickedness in them by nature; but partly by withdrawing the common gifts and operations of his spirit, and all other restraints and hinderances to it, and wholly leaving them to their own mistakes and passions, and corrupt affections, which of their own accord were ready to take that course; partly by ordering the affairs of his people in such manner, as might give them occasion of hatred; and partly by directing and governing that hatred, which was wholly in and from themselves; so as it should fall upon the Israelites rather than upon other People.

To destroy them by crafty devices: of which see Exod. 1. 11, &c.

Marginal references: Exod. 1. 8.