CHAPTER IX.
Lateward. The hail fell in February. (Bonfrere) Aristophanes (in Avibus) says, the Egyptians and Phenicians have their harvest when the cuckoo begins to sing. The month Nisan, which answers to part of March and April, was honoured with the first fruits, chap. xiii. 4. (Menochius)
Verse Exodus 9:32. _BUT THE WHEAT AND THE RYE WERE NOT SMITTEN_] _Wheat_, _chittah_, which Mr. Parkhurst thinks should be derived from the Chaldee and Samaritan חטי _chati_, which signifies _tender_,...
With the plague of hail begins the last series of plagues, which differ from the former both in their severity and their effects. Each produced a temporary, but real, change in Pharaoh’s feelings. Ex...
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 9:13 TO EXODUS 35:7°. A DEVASTATING HAILSTORM (Exodus 9:13 J, Exodus 9:22 f. E,...
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...
_spelt_ -bread made from spelt is frequently found in Egyptian tombs" (Lepsius, in a private letter to Dillmann). -Spelt" (Isaiah 28:25; Ezekiel 4:9 †) is a cereal closely allied to wheat, which it mu...
A supplementary notice, which interrupts the connexion between _vv._29f. and 33, stating, more explicitly than _v._25b, what crops had suffered in the fields. On account of the information on Egyptian...
The Pharaoh craves a third time (see Exodus 8:8; Exodus 8:28) for a cessation of the plague....
The _seventh_plague. The hail. From J, with short passages, probably, from E. 13, 17 18. The announcement of the plague: cf. Exodus 8:1-3; Exodus 8:20-23; Exodus 9:1-4....
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...
FOR THEY WERE NOT GROWN UP— Margin of our Bibles—_were hidden_ or _dark._ Bochart reads it, _for they were not yet eared._ Parkhurst, from Fuller, upon the word [אפל] _apel,_ observes, that _hidden,_...
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...
_AND THE FLAX AND THE BARLEY WAS SMITTEN: FOR THE BARLEY WAS IN THE EAR, AND THE FLAX WAS BOLLED._ The flax and barley was smitten ... The peculiarities that are mentioned in these cereal products ar...
9:32 ear. (d-17) Lit. 'were concealed.'...
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...
THE WHEAT AND THE RIE. — “Rie,” or rye, is a wrong translation. It is a grain which has never been grown in Egypt. The only three kinds of grain cultivated were wheat, barley, and the _holcus sorghum,...
וְ הַ חִטָּ֥ה וְ הַ כֻּסֶּ֖מֶת לֹ֣א
THE SEVENTH PLAGUE. Exodus 9:13. The hardening of Pharaoh's heart, we have argued, was not the debauching of his spirit, but only the strengthening of his will. "Wait on the Lord and _ be of good cou...
MIGHTY THUNDERINGS AND HAIL Exodus 9:13 This paragraph recalls Revelation 7:3. The great angel there commanded that no wind should blow on the earth, or on the sea, or upon any tree, until the servan...
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...
Was not Moses in all this a type of the ever-blessed Jesus?...
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...
BUT THE WHEAT AND THE RYE WERE NOT SMITTEN,.... Bruised, broken, beat down, and destroyed by hail: the word by us rendered "rye", and by other "fitches" or "spelt", is thought by Dr. Shaw q to be "ric...
But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they [were] not grown up. Ver. 32. _See Trapp on "_ Exo 9:31 _"_...
_They were not grown up_ Were _hidden_, or _dark_, as the margin reads it; or _late_, as many interpreters render the expression. This kind of corn, coming later up, was now tender, and hidden, either...
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...
But the wheat and the rye, or spelt, WERE NOT SMITTEN; FOR THEY WERE NOT GROWN UP, they belong to the late grains....
THE PLAGUE OF THE HAIL...
G. THE PLAGUE OF THE HAIL Exodus 9:13-35 13And Jehovah said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, God [the God] of the Hebrews, Let...
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...
NOT GROWN: _ Heb._ hidden Or, dark...
22-35 Woful havoc this hail made: it killed both men and cattle; the corn above ground was destroyed, and that only preserved which as yet was not come up. The land of Goshen was preserved. God cause...
The Hebrew word may be rendered either _dark_ or _hid_, to wit, under the ground, whereby it was secured from this stroke; or _late_, as divers of the Hebrews and other interpreters render it. This ki...
Exodus 9:32 wheat H2406 spelt H3698 struck H5221 (H8795) they H2007 crops H648 not grown up - Exo
THE SEVENTH PLAGUE - THE PLAGUE OF GREAT HAIL SUCH AS HAD NEVER BEEN IN EGYPT (EXODUS 9:13). We now come to the third series of plagues which this time come as judgments from the heavens, the great ha...
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....
EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 9:31 The explanation about Egypt’s crops indicates that Pharaoh took comfort from what remained in his land rather than acknowledging the destruction that had already come....
EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 9:13 The Lord explains to Pharaoh the power and purposes of the plagues (vv. Exodus 9:14). It is the first time he offers Pharaoh a way to avoid the effects of a plague (vv....
CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 9:31. Bolled] “In flower.” _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 9:29_ WISE MINISTERIAL TREATMENT OF AN OBSTINATE SINNER Moses was a true minister. He was a real and wo...
EXPOSITION The plague of hail impressed the Pharaoh more than any previous one. It was the first which had inflicted death on men. It was a most striking and terrible manifestation. It was quite unlik...
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...
not grown up. Heb. hidden or dark...