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Exodus 9:15

For now I will stretch out My hand that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence, and thou shalt be cut off from the earth. Pharaoh was even now doomed to death, and if the Lord had so chosen, it would have been an easy matter this to destroy him before this.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Exodus 9:15. _FOR NOW I WILL STRETCH OUT MY HAND_] In the Hebrew the verbs are in the _past_ tense, and not in the _future_, as our translation improperly expresses them, by which means a contr...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • 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 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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EXODUS 9:13 TO EXODUS 35:7°. A DEVASTATING HAILSTORM (Exodus 9:13 J, Exodus 9:22 f. E,...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _For now_, &c. -had put forth" is hypothetical: _For_ ELSE (i.e. except for the motive just stated) _I_ SHOULD NOW HAVE _put forth_, &c., would express the sense more clearly. _hadst_ i.e. _wouldest...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The announcement of the plague (_vv._13, 17 18) is interrupted by a passage, intended evidently (Di.) to explain why, when so many plagues have produced no impression upon the Pharaoh, God continues t...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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....

  • 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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    FOR I WILL AT THIS, &C.— The following translation of these verses, which is agreeable to Houbigant, will supersede all criticism, and render them extremely plain and intelligible: Exodus 9:13. _Let m...

  • 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

    _FOR NOW I WILL STRETCH OUT MY HAND, THAT I MAY SMITE THEE AND THY PEOPLE WITH PESTILENCE; AND THOU SHALT BE CUT OFF FROM THE EARTH._ For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee. This v...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    9:15 off (b-24) Or 'If I had stretched out my hand and had smitten thee with pestilence, thee and thy people, I should have cut thee off.'...

  • 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...

  • 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 SEVENTH PLAGUE. (13-19) The plagues fall into triads, or groups of three. This is the first plague of the third group, and presents to us several new features. (1) It is ushered in with an unusual...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    FOR NOW I WILL STRETCH OUT MY HAND. — The words admit of this translation, but the context will not allow it. Translate — _And now I might have stretched out mine hand, and smitten both thee and thy p...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ֤י עַתָּה֙ שָׁלַ֣חְתִּי אֶת ־יָדִ֔י וָ אַ֥

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • 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

    _Pestilence, or various evils which now came fast upon Pharao. (Menochius)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The apostle Paul makes the best comment upon this, when he applies it to the sovereignty of grace: Romans 9:17....

  • 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 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

    FOR NOW WILL I STRETCH OUT MY HAND, THAT I MAY SMITE THEE AND THY PEOPLE WITH PESTILENCE,.... Which yet we never find was done; for though this by many is referred to the slaying of the firstborn, yet...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth. Ver. 15. _For now I will stretch out._] His former preservation was...

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

    _I will at this time send all my plagues_ Either these verses relate to what was to happen some time afterward, namely, the slaying of the firstborn, or the latter verse is to be read as follows, a tr...

  • 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...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    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...

  • 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

    13-21 Moses is here ordered to deliver a dreadful message to Pharaoh. Providence ordered it, that Moses should have a man of such a fierce and stubborn spirit as this Pharaoh to deal with; and every...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    PESTILENCE; not properly so called, but largely, as the word is used HOSEA 13:14, meaning with an utter and irrecoverable destruction. This relates partly to the killing of the first-born, which plagu...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Exodus 9:15 out H7971 (H8804) hand H3027 struck H5221 (H8686) people H5971 pestilence H1698 off H3582 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Exodus 9:13 The message illustrates: I. The longsuffering of God towards sinners. Pharaoh had been insolent and blasphemous, cruel and vindictive, pitiless and false. Yet God had spared him. So long...

  • 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

    _To show in thee My power._ THE PLAGUES OF EGYPT I. characteristics. 1. Wonders. Filled men with astonishment and awe. 2. Signs. Instructive. Showed the power and anger of Jehovah. “This, the fing...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 9:14 Although Pharaoh considered himself a representative of divine power, the plagues have revealed that there is no one like the Lord IN ALL THE EARTH (see v....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH_.—_Exodus 9:13_ THE DIVINE NAME AS MANIFESTED IN THE HISTORY OF A WICKED AND REBELLIOUS SOUL We must clearly understand the teaching of the sixteenth verse of this p...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • 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

    stretch Exodus 9:3 Exodus 9:6 Exodus 9:16 Exodus 3:20 that Exodus 11:4...

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