Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Exodus 9:24
Which strange mixture much increased the miracle. That hail and rain did sometimes, though but seldom, fall in Egypt, is attested by divers eye-witnesses.
Which strange mixture much increased the miracle. That hail and rain did sometimes, though but seldom, fall in Egypt, is attested by divers eye-witnesses.
Verse Exodus 9:24. _HAIL, AND FIRE MINGLED WITH THE HAIL_] It is generally allowed that the electric fluid is essential to the formation of hail. On this occasion it was supplied in a supernatural abu...
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...
MINGLED. catching hold of itself like. chain....
_fire mingled with the hail_ lit. -fire _taking hold of itself in the midst of_the hail," i.e. forming a continuous stream in it, paraphrased on the marg. by _flashing continually amidst_. The same ex...
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...
SO THERE WAS HAIL— _Universal_ hail, Exodus 9:25 demonstrative of its supernatural origin, as hail is generally _partial;_ more supernatural, as general in all parts of Egypt, except that where the ch...
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 LORD SAID UNTO MOSES, STRETCH FORTH THINE HAND TOWARD HEAVEN, THAT THERE MAY BE HAIL IN ALL THE LAND OF EGYPT, UPON MAN, AND UPON BEAST, AND UPON EVERY HERB OF THE FIELD, THROUGHOUT THE LAND...
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...
FIRE MINGLED WITH THE HAIL. — Heb., _a fire infolding itself in the midst of the hail._ (Comp. Ezekiel 1:4; and see the comment on Exodus 9:23.)...
וַ יְהִ֣י בָרָ֔ד וְ אֵ֕שׁ מִתְלַקַּ֖חַת בְּ
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...
_In all the land of. So the Hebrew: but the Samaritan and some Hebrew manuscripts have simply in Egypt. (Kennicott) --- Founded, about 627 years before. Hence it appears, that the rain falls in some p...
Daniel 12:1...
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...
SO THERE WAS HAIL, AND FIRE MINGLED WITH THE HAIL,.... Which was a miracle within a miracle, as Aben Ezra observes; and very wonderful indeed it was, that the hail did not quench the fire, nor the fir...
_So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation._ Ver. 24e. So there was hail, and fire mingled.] A...
_Fire mingled with hail_ Which strange mixture much increased the miracle. The Hebrew is, fire _infolding_ or _catching itself among the hail;_ “One flash of lightning,” says Ainsworth, “taking hold o...
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...
So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, in addition to the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation....
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...
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...
Exodus 9:24 hail H1259 fire H784 H3947 (H8693) mingled H8432 hail H1259 very H3966 heavy H3515 none...
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....
_The hail shall come down upon them._ BROUGHT HOME I. God is the true home of the soul. Everything the soul needs is to be found in Him: nowhere else. Here is inviolable security, and everlasting pe...
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....
_ILLUSTRATIONS_ BY REV. WM. ADAMSON HAIL-PLAGUE! Exodus 9:22. The Psalmist says that the vines, and sycamores, and fig-trees—yea and all the trees in their coasts, were destroyed by the hailstones an...
EXPOSITION THE SEVENTH PLAGUE. The sixth plague had had no effect at all upon the hard heart of the Pharaoh, who cared nothing for the physical sufferings of his subjects, and apparently was not himse...
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...
none like Exodus 9:24 Exodus 10:6 Matthew 24:21...