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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Exodus 9:11

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 own tormented flesh. Whether they perished in this plague we know not, but they are no more mentioned. If they were not destroyed by this awful judgment, they at least left the field, and no longer contended with these messengers of God. The triumph of God's power was now complete, and both the Hebrews and the Egyptians must see that there was neither might, nor wisdom, nor counsel against the Lord; and that, as universal nature acknowledged his power, devils and men must fail before him.

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See also Exodus 9:11 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    This verse seems to imply that the magicians now formally gave way and confessed their defeat....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    EGYPTIANS. Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "all the land of Egypt"....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The _sixth_plague. The boils on men and cattle. Entirely P....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    COULD NOT STAND BEFORE MOSES] i.e. could not withstand Moses. They were attacked themselves, and could neither imitate nor remove the plague....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ לֹֽא ־יָכְל֣וּ הַֽ חַרְטֻמִּ֗ים לַ עֲמֹ֛ד

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Stand before to oppose Moses. They could not screen themselves. (Haydock)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE PLAGUE OF BOILS AND BLAINS...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    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...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Exodus 9:11 magicians H2748 could H3201 (H8804) stand H5975 (H8800) before H6440 Moses H4872 because H6440 boils...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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 Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Exodus 7:11,12 Exodus 8:18,19 Isaiah 47:12 2 Timothy 3:8,9...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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....

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