George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Exodus 9:3
My hand. God inflicts the fourth, fifth, and tenth plagues without Moses.
My hand. God inflicts the fourth, fifth, and tenth plagues without Moses.
_THE_ FIFTH _PLAGUE _- _THE_ MURRAIN Verse Exodus 9:3. _THE HAND OF THE LORD_] The power of God manifested in judgment. _UPON THE HORSES_] סוסים _susim_. This is the first place the _horse_ is ment...
A VERY GRIEVOUS MURRAIN - Or “pestilence;” but the word “murrain,” i. e. “a great mortality,” exactly expresses the meaning. This terrible visitation struck far more severely than the preceding, which...
CHAPTER 9 THE FIFTH, SIXTH, AND SEVENTH PLAGUES _ 1. The fifth plague: the grievous murrain (Exodus 9:1)_ 2. The sixth plague: boils (Exodus 9:8) 3. The warning given (Exodus 9:13) 4. The seventh...
EXODUS 7:14 TO EXODUS 12:36. THE TEN PLAGUES. How deeply this series of events imprinted itself on the mind and heart of the nation is shown by the fulness with which the three sources report them. J...
EXODUS 9:1 J. 5°. MURRAIN UPON CATTLE. The word cattle is a wide term, and includes all domestic animals. The camels must have been those of visiting Bedouins, as they were not naturalised in ancient...
HAND. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia_ (App-6). Also _Metonymy_ (of Cause), "hand" being put for the judgments inflicted by it. IN THE FIELD. The cattle, &c., were in the field in the spring and ea...
_cattle_ lit. _possessions_, commonly used of possessions in sheep and oxen (Exodus 12:38; Genesis 47:14), but including here other animals as well. _camels_ Camels were not used, or bred, in ancient...
Exodus 7:14 to Exodus 11:5 _The first nine Plagues_ The narrative of the Plagues, like that of the preceding Chapter s, is composite. The details of the analysis depend partly upon literary criteria...
The _fifth_plague. The murrain on cattle. Entirely J....
The announcement to the Pharaoh, worded analogously to those of the second and fourth plagues (Exodus 8:1-4; Exodus 8:20-23, both J)....
A VERY GRIEVOUS MURRAIN— דבר _deber,_ the same word as is used, Exodus 9:15 and rendered _pestilence;_ concerning which, see note on ch. Exodus 5:3. In 2 Samuel 24:14 _the pestilence_ is called _the h...
THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 9 Then Je-ho-vah said unto Mo-ses, Go in unto Pha-raoh, and tell him, Thus saith Je-ho-vah, the God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me. (2) For if...
_BEHOLD, THE HAND OF THE LORD IS UPON THY CATTLE WHICH IS IN THE FIELD, UPON THE HORSES, UPON THE ASSES, UPON THE CAMELS, UPON THE OXEN, AND UPON THE SHEEP: THERE SHALL BE A VERY GRIEVOUS MURRAIN._ B...
CATTLE] A general term including the species mentioned in this verse. IN THE FIELD] Those that were housed escaped, to suffer afterwards from the plague of hail: see Exodus 9:19; Exodus 9:25. The word...
THE FIFTH, SIXTH, AND SEVENTH PLAGUES 1-7. The Fifth Plague:—Murrain, i.e. cattle plague. Visitations of cattle plague are not uncommon in Egypt. An outbreak in 1842 carried off 40,000 oxen. The mira...
EXODUS: ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION THE *ISRAELITES LEAVE EGYPT EXODUS CHAPTER S 1 TO 18 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 9 *PLAGUE NUMBER 5: THE *EGYPTIANS’ ANIMALS BECOME ILL THE *PLAGUE TH...
IX. THE FIFTH PLAGUE. (1-3) The nature of the fifth plague is manifest, and admits of no dispute. It was a _rinderpest,_ or murrain upon cattle; which, however, unlike most similar disorders, attacked...
הִנֵּ֨ה יַד ־יְהוָ֜ה הֹויָ֗ה בְּ מִקְנְךָ֙ אֲ
CHAPTER IX. _ THE FIFTH PLAGUE._ Exodus 9:1. Our Lord when on earth came not to destroy men's lives. And yet it was necessary, for our highest instruction, that we should not think of Him as reveali...
THE MURRAIN OF CATTLE AND THE PLAGUE OF BOILS Exodus 9:1 The plague on the cattle reminds us that the whole creation groans and travails from the effects of human sin. See Romans 8:20. But those groa...
The patient method of God is manifest in that, notwithstanding the fact that Pharaoh had again broken faith, God again warned him. There being no evidence of repentance, the fifth plague fell upon the...
Mark that observation of the Apostle, Romans 8:22....
There is hardly a book of the Old Testament that stands out in more decided contrast with the book of Genesis than the one which follows it most closely. And this is the more striking, because God emp...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 5 THROUGH 13. At the news of the goodness of God, the people adore Him; but the struggle against the power of evil is another matter. Satan will not let the p...
BEHOLD, THE HAND OF THE LORD,.... Which was stronger than his, with which he held the Israelites: IS UPON THY CATTLE WHICH IS IN THE FIELD: this takes in all in general, of which the particulars foll...
_Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which [is] in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: [there shall be] a very grievous murrain....
The hand of the Lord - Immediately, without the stretching out of Aaron's hand; _is upon the cattle_ Many of which, some of _all kinds_, should die by a sort of pestilence. The hand of God is to be ac...
1 The murraine of beasts. 8 The plague of boyles, and blaines. 13 His message about the haile. 22 The plague of haile. 27 Pharaoh sueth to Moses, 35 but yet is hardened. 1 THEN the LORD said vnt...
behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thy cattle which is in the field, the domestic animals of every variety, UPON THE HORSES, UPON THE ASSES, UPON THE CAMELS, UPON THE OXEN, AND UPON THE SHEEP, upon...
THE PLAGUE OF THE PESTILENCE OF BEASTS...
E. THE PESTILENCE OF THE BEASTS Exodus 9:1-7 1Then [And] Jehovah said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and tell [speak unto] him, Thus saith Jehovah, God [the God] of the Hebrews, Let my people go, th...
PLAGUE NO.5 -- LIVESTOCK DISEASED (vs.1-7) Again the Lord requires Moses to repeat his demand to Pharaoh to let the people go. This time He warns that if Pharaoh refuses, He will send a very severe p...
1-7 God will have Israel released, Pharaoh opposes it, and the trial is, whose word shall stand. The hand of the Lord at once is upon the cattle, many of which, some of all kinds, die by a sort of mu...
The hand of the Lord; in an immediate manner, not by my rod, that thou mayst know it is not I, but the Lord, which doth all these things to thee. THY CATTLE which they kept for their wool or milk, or...
Exodus 9:3 hand H3027 LORD H3068 be H1961 (H8802) cattle H4735 field H7704 horses H5483 donkeys H2543 camels...
THE FIFTH PLAGUE - THE PLAGUE OF A DEADLY CATTLE SICKNESS (EXODUS 9:1). Up to this point the inflictions had mainly been to do with people. Now the wealth of the Egyptians was to be attacked. The att...
CONTENTS: Plagues of murraine, boils and hail. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Pharaoh, Aaron. CONCLUSION: The creature is made subject to vanity by reason of man's sins, liable to serve man's wickedness or...
Exodus 9:6. _All the cattle of Egypt died;_ that is, all were smitten with the murrain, whose unbelieving owners did not take care to house them: so we read in the twentieth verse concerning the hail....
_The hand of the Lord is upon thy cattle._ THE SUFFERING THAT COMES UPON THE BRUTE CREATION IN CONSEQUENCE OF THE SIN OF MAN I. That wicked men often act in reference to the claim’s of God in such a...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 9:3. Murrain.] Lit. destruction. _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 9:1_ THE MURRAIN OF BEASTS; OR, THE SUFFERING THAT COMES UPON THE BRUTE CREATION IN CONSEQUENCE O...
EXPOSITION THE FIFTH PLAGUE. Hitherto the plagues had been directed rather against the persons of the Egyptians than against their property. Property had perhaps suffered somewhat in the preceding pl...
Then the Lord said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, [Now we have the sixth demand.] and tell him, Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me. For if you refuse to...
the hand Exodus 7:4 Exodus 8:19 1 Samuel 5:6 1 Samuel 6:9 Acts 13:11 murrain. We may
The hand of the Lord — Immediately, without the stretching out of Aaron's hand, is upon the cattle, many of which, some of all kinds, shall die by a sort of pestilence. The hand of God is to be acknow...