John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible
Exodus 9:2
For if thou refuse to let them go,.... Continue to refuse, as he had done:
and wilt hold them still; in the land, and under his dominion and oppression.
For if thou refuse to let them go,.... Continue to refuse, as he had done:
and wilt hold them still; in the land, and under his dominion and oppression.
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...
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)....
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...
_THEN THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES, GO IN UNTO PHARAOH, AND TELL HIM, THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD OF THE HEBREWS, LET MY PEOPLE GO, THAT THEY MAY SERVE ME._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
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...
כִּ֛י אִם ־מָאֵ֥ן אַתָּ֖ה לְ שַׁלֵּ֑חַ וְ
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...
Pray Reader spiritualize this whole history, and consider that what God saith to Pharaoh for the temporal deliverance of Israel; he doth in effect say to all the enemies of his people for their eterna...
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...
2._But if thou refuse. _God again urges him to obedience through fear of punishment, as He usually deals with the froward. Yet he permits him a short space of time for repentance, (as before,) if perc...
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...
For if thou refuse to let [them] go, and wilt hold them still, Ver. 2. _And wilt hold them still._] Being wedded to thy will, which will prove thy hell. _a_ a _Voluntas tua infernus tuus._ - _Bern._...
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...
For if thou refuse to let them go and wilt hold them still, hold them back, using force upon them, in spite of the fact that Jehovah had made known His will so emphatically,...
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...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Exodus 9:2 refuse H3986 go H7971 (H8763) hold H2388 (H8688) Exodus 4:23,...
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...
Exodus 4:23 Exodus 8:2 Exodus 10:4 Leviticus 26:14 Leviticus 26:23...