Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Exodus 9:11
The magicians were forced to retreat, and could not stand before Moses — To which the apostle refers, 2 Timothy 3:9, when he saith, that their folly was manifested unto all men.
The magicians were forced to retreat, and could not stand before Moses — To which the apostle refers, 2 Timothy 3:9, when he saith, that their folly was manifested unto all men.
Verse Exodus 9:11. _THE BOIL WAS UPON THE MAGICIANS_] They could not produce a similar malady by throwing ashes in the air; and they could neither remove the plague from the people, nor from their ow...
This verse seems to imply that the magicians now formally gave way and confessed their defeat....
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 9:8 P. 6°. BOILS ON MAN AND BEAST. Skin diseases are common troubles in Egypt. This may be meant for the Nile-scab, an irritating eruption, consisting of innumerable little red blisters, which...
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...
EGYPTIANS. Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "all the land of Egypt"....
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 _sixth_plague. The boils on men and cattle. Entirely P....
The magicians (Exodus 7:11; Exodus 7:22; Exodus 8:7; Exodus 8:18-19) this time are not only not able to imitate the plague, but are themselves attacked by it....
THE MAGICIANS COULD NOT STAND BEFORE MOSES, &C.— Baffled before, and wholly conquered, the magicians, it is probable, still continued about Pharaoh, and were eye-witnesses of the several transactions...
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 MAGICIANS COULD NOT STAND BEFORE MOSES BECAUSE OF THE BOILS; FOR THE BOIL WAS UPON THE MAGICIANS, AND UPON ALL THE EGYPTIANS._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
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...
COULD NOT STAND BEFORE MOSES] i.e. could not withstand Moses. They were attacked themselves, and could neither imitate nor remove the plague....
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 MAGICIANS COULD NOT STAND BEFORE MOSES. — It is uncertain whether the magicians were present accidentally, or had come for the express purpose of “withstanding Moses” (2 Timothy 3:8). The latter m...
וְ לֹֽא ־יָכְל֣וּ הַֽ חַרְטֻמִּ֗ים לַ עֲמֹ֛ד
THE SIXTH PLAGUE. Exodus 9:8. At the close of the second triplet, as of the first, stands a plague without a warning, but not without the clearest connection between the blow and Him who deals it. T...
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...
_Stand before to oppose Moses. They could not screen themselves. (Haydock)_...
Observe in this plague the magicians are included as partakers. It should seem that in direct defiance of their own confession, Exodus 8:19. they still attempted to confront God's messenger, and there...
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...
11._And the magicians could not. _Since the magicians were now also at hand, doubtless they were possessed by their former folly, so that they stood in readiness, as it were, in case an opportunity of...
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...
AND THE MAGICIANS COULD NOT STAND BEFORE MOSES, BECAUSE OF THE BOILS,.... Which were on them as on others, and which with all their art and skill they could not keep off; and which were so sore upon t...
And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boil was upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians. Ver. 11. _For the boil was upon the magicians._] Who were convict...
_The magicians could not stand before Moses_ We do not read of any attempt they made to vie with Moses in miracles since the plague of the lice. But it would seem from this passage that they still con...
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...
THE PLAGUE OF BOILS AND BLAINS...
And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boil was upon the magicians and upon all the Egyptians. Far from being able to imitate the miracle in this case, the Egypti...
F. THE BOILS AND BLAINS Exodus 9:8-12 8And Jehovah said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heaven [toward heaven] in the sig...
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...
8-12 When the Egyptians were not wrought upon by the death of their cattle, God sent a plague that seized their own bodies. If lesser judgments do not work, God will send greater. Sometimes God shows...
COULD NOT STAND BEFORE MOSES, as they hitherto had done, both as spies and as adversaries; for though their understandings were convinced of God's hand and infinite power, yet their hearts were not ch...
Exodus 9:11 magicians H2748 could H3201 (H8804) stand H5975 (H8800) before H6440 Moses H4872 because H6440 boils...
THE SIXTH PLAGUE - THE PLAGUE OF BOILS (EXODUS 9:8). Like the third plague in the first series this plague follows immediately after the previous one in the second series without warning. a Yahweh di...
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....
_A boil breaking forth with blains._ LESSONS 1. Upon former warnings despised, God falls suddenly, on the wicked with vengeance unawares. 2. Though God can plague His enemies without instruments, y...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 9:8. Furnace] “For burning lime or smelting metals, and for the preparation of glass, out of which, while it is heated, a thick smoke ascends (Genesis 19:28) and in which ashe...
EXPOSITION THE SIXTH PLAGUE. The sixth plague was sent, like the third, without notice given. It was also, like the third, a plague which inflicted direct injury upon the person. There was a very sole...
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...
Exodus 7:11,12 Exodus 8:18,19 Isaiah 47:12 2 Timothy 3:8,9...