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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

Exodus 9

Exodus 9:1

EXODUS CHAPTER 9 God threatens to smite his cattle with a pestilence, EXODUS 9:1; but spares Israel s, EXODUS 9:4. Appoints a time for the execution hereof, EXODUS 9:5; wherein the Egyptians cattle dies, EXODUS 9:6. Pharaoh's obstinacy, EXODUS 9:7. God strikes all Egypt with boils, which is the sixt... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 9:3

The hand of the Lord; in an immediate manner, not by my rod, that thou mayst know it is not I, but the Lord, which doth all these things to thee. THY CATTLE which they kept for their wool or milk, or manifold uses and services, though not for food and sacrifice.... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 9:6

ALL THE CATTLE; either of all sorts, or a very great number of them, as the word _all_ is frequently used; or rather, all that were in the field, as it is expressly limited, EXODUS 9:3, but not all absolutely, as appears from EXODUS 9:9,19,25 14:23.... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 9:8

Take to you handfuls of ashes, to mind them of their cruel usage of the Israelites in their furnace, of which see DEUTERONOMY 4:20 JEREMIAH 11:4. Both were to take them up, but Moses only to sprinkle them, as at other times Aaron only did the work, to show that they were but instruments, which God c... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 9:9

A burning scab, which quickly raised blains and blisters; whereby they were both vehemently inclined to scratch themselves, and yet utterly disenabled from it by its great soreness.... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 9:10

God multiplying that dust, and heating it, and then dispersing it over all the land, and causing it to fall and rest upon the bodies of the Egyptians.... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 9:11

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 changed; but for their worldly interest they persisted to rebel against their light., and therefore ar... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 9:14

UPON THINE HEART, or, _into thy heart_: thou hast hitherto not felt my plagues upon thy own person or thy body, but I shall shortly reach and wound it, and that not only in the skin, as the magicians and others are now smitten, but even to thy heart, such as shall make thy _heart sick_, MICAH 6:13,... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 9:15

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 plague did more immediately and nearly concern both him and his people, and principally to their destruct... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 9:16

RAISED THEE UP; so the Hebrew word is translated, ROMANS 9:17. I have raised thee up out of thy first nothing, into thy being, and life, and kingdom; and upheld thy being and reign even in the midst of thy tyranny. Heb. _I have made thee to stand_, i.e. to remain alive and untouched, when thy magici... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 9:17

Against my people, i.e. against me acting for my people. The gracious God takes what is done to or against his people as done to or against himself. See MALACHI 2:8 MATTHEW 25:40,45 AC 9:4,5.... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 9:19

This forewarning God gives, partly, to initiate the severity of the judgment; partly, that a considerable number of horses might be reserved for Pharaoh's expedition, EXO 14; partly, to show the justice of God in punishing so wicked and obstinate people, as would take no warning neither from God's w... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 9:23

THE FIRE RAN ALONG UPON THE GROUND, devouring both herbs and cattle which were upon it, PSALMS 78:47,48 PSALMS 105:32,33... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 9:24

Which strange mixture much increased the miracle. That hail and rain did sometimes, though but seldom, fall in Egypt, is attested by divers eye-witnesses.... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 9:26

It seems the Egyptians that dwelt there were spared for the sake of their neighbours the Israelites; which great obligation probably made them more willing to lend their jewels to them, EXODUS 12:35.... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 9:27

I now plainly see and freely acknowledge my sin in striving with God. He seems not to deny that he had sinned before, for even the light of nature would discover his sin, in breaking his faith, and the word of a King given to Moses for Israel's dismission.... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 9:28

Or, _and_ let it be _enough_, (let God content himself that he hath punished me so long, and that I have confessed my sin, and promised amendment,) THAT THERE MAY BE hereafter NO MORE.... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 9:29

Or, _that this land is the Lord s_, even his whom thou deniedst to have any jurisdiction in it, or over thee, EXODUS 5:2. Or the _earth_ is put for the world, the heaven and the earth: q. d. That thou mayst see that he can either cause the heavens to send forth such thunders and hails, or restrain t... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 9:31

The flax and the barley were not so necessary for human life as the wheat and rye. Thus God still sends smaller judgments to usher in the greater.... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 9:32

The Hebrew word may be rendered either _dark_ or _hid_, to wit, under the ground, whereby it was secured from this stroke; or _late_, as divers of the Hebrews and other interpreters render it. This kind of corn coming later up, was now tender and hidden, either in the ground or in the herb; whereby... [ Continue Reading ]

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