Exodus 9:27

_AND PHARAOH SENT, AND CALLED FOR MOSES AND AARON, AND SAID UNTO THEM, I HAVE SINNED THIS TIME: THE LORD IS RIGHTEOUS, AND I AND MY PEOPLE ARE WICKED._ Pharaoh ... I have sinned. This awful display of divine displeasure did seriously impress the mind of Pharaoh, and, under the weight of his convictions, he humbled himself to confess he had done wrong in opposing the divine will. At the same time he called for Moses to intercede for a cessation of the calamity. Verse 30. AS FOR THEE AND THY SERVANTS, I KNOW THAT YE WILL NOT YET FEAR THE LORD GOD. Pharaoh and his courtiers already acknowledged Yahweh as the God of the Hebrews; but the grand truth which the remarkable judgments brought upon Egypt were designed to teach was, that Yahweh was _ 'ELOHIYM_ (H430) - the Lord was the true and only God. A full and abiding conviction of this truth had been so imperfectly attained, that in every ins...

27._And Pharaoh sent and called. _If this confession had proceeded from the heart, it would have betokened repentance; but Moses immediately perceived that fear in the heart of the wicked is not a principle which governs them in lasting duty; (111) and this was more manifest in the result. Although we must, at the same time, recollect, what I have already touched upon, that Pharaoh did not lie designedly; for when seized by terror, he caught at every means to appease God, but soon after relapsed into his former state of mind. For although with fox-like cunning the wicked pretend submission, when they see themselves caught, in order to escape from the snare, still they do not mean to mock God by their soft words; but rather under the pressure of necessity they are ready to do anything, and therefore offer propitiation’s and satisfactions; but when their fear has departed, because whatever...

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 causes rain or hail on one city and not on another, either in mercy or in judgment. Pharaoh humbled himself to Moses. No man could have spoken better: he owns himself wrong; he owns that the Lord is righteous; and God must be justified when he speaks, though he speaks in thunder and lightning. Yet his heart was hardened all this while. Moses pleads with God: though he had reason to think Pharaoh would repent of his repentance, and he told him so, yet he promises to be his friend. Moses went out of the city, notwithstanding the hail and lightning which kept Pharaoh and his servants within doors. Peace with God makes men thunder-proof. Pharaoh was frightened by the tremendous judgment; but when tha...

Verse Exodus 9:27. _THE LORD IS RIGHTEOUS, AND I AND MY PEOPLE ARE_ _WICKED._] The original is very emphatic: _The Lord is_ THE RIGHTEOUS ONE, (הצדיק _hatstaddik_), _and I and my people are_ THE SINNERS, (הרשעים _hareshaim_); i.e., He is _alone_ righteous, and we _alone_ are transgressors. Who could have imagined that after such an acknowledgment and confession, Pharaoh should have again hardened his heart?...

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. Exodus 9:14 ALL MY PLAGUES - This applies to all the plagues which follow; the effect of each was foreseen and foretold. The words “at this time” point to a rapid and continuous succession of blows. The plagues which precede appear to have been spread over a considerable time; the first message of Moses was delivered after the early harvest of the year before, when the Israelites could gather stubble, i. e. in May and April: the second mission, when the plagues began, was probably toward the end of June, and they went on at intervals until the winter; this plague was in February; see...

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 unlike anything which the Egyptians had ever experienced before (Exodus 9:18, Exodus 9:24). It was, by manifest miracle, made to fall on the Egyptians only (Exodus 9:26). Pharaoh was therefore more humbled than ever previously. He acknowledged that he "had_ _sinned" (Exodus 9:27); he added a confession that "Jehovah_ _[alone] was righteous, he and his people wicked" (_ibid._)_. _And, as twice before, he expressed his wi

AND PHARAOH SENT,.... Not persons to observe whether there was any hail fell in the land of Goshen, though there are some k that so supply the words; but it cannot be thought that Pharaoh would send, or that any would go thither amidst such a storm of thunder and hail; but he sent messengers, AND CALLED MOSES AND AARON; who might be in his palace, at least not very far off: AND SAID UNTO THEM, I HAVE SINNED THIS TIME; not but that he had sinned before, and must be conscious of it, particularly in breaking his promise so often; but now he acknowledged his sin, which he had never done before: and this confession of sin did not arise from a true sense of it, from hatred of it, and sorrow for it as committed against God; but from the fright he was in, the horror of his mind, the dread of the present plague being continued; and the terror of death that seized him, the rebounding noise of th...

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 plague: hail (Exodus 9:22) In the demand God calls Himself “the Lord God of the Hebrews” (see also Exodus 9:13 and Exodus 10:3). The fifth plague strikes animal creation. cattle, such as mentioned in the opening of this chapter, formed the most important part

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 1° 2° 4° 5° 7° 8° 9° 10° E 1° 7° 8° 9° 10° P 1° 2° 3° 6° 10° 1°, river turned to blood; 2°, frogs; 3°, fice (gnats); 4°, flies; 5°, murrain; 6°, boils; 7°, hail; 8°, locusts; 9°, darkness; 10°, death of firstborn. A sound historical judgment will conclude, both from this fact and from the nature of the occurrences mentioned, as well as from the need for _some_ such group of causes to account for the escape of the tribes, that the traditions have a firm foothold in real events. But since not less than four centuries intervened between the events and the earliest of our sources, it is not to b

SINNED. Hebrew. _chat'a._ See App-44. RIGHTEOUS. the righteous One. WICKED. wicked ones. Hebrew. _rash`a._ See App-44....