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Exodus 9:24

fire mingled with the hail lit. -fire taking hold of itself in the midst ofthe hail," i.e. forming a continuous stream in it, paraphrased on the marg. by flashing continually amidst. The same expression recurs in Ezekiel 1:4 -a great cloud, with a fire taking hold of itself" (AV., RV. infolding itself; RVm. Or, flashing continually).

very grievous, &c. as v.18.

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See also Exodus 9:24 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Exodus 9:24. _HAIL, AND FIRE MINGLED WITH THE HAIL_] It is generally allowed that the electric fluid is essential to the formation of hail. On this occasion it was supplied in a supernatural abu...

  • 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,...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    MINGLED. catching hold of itself like. chain....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    SO THERE WAS HAIL— _Universal_ hail, Exodus 9:25 demonstrative of its supernatural origin, as hail is generally _partial;_ more supernatural, as general in all parts of Egypt, except that where the ch...

  • 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 LORD SAID UNTO MOSES, STRETCH FORTH THINE HAND TOWARD HEAVEN, THAT THERE MAY BE HAIL IN ALL THE LAND OF EGYPT, UPON MAN, AND UPON BEAST, AND UPON EVERY HERB OF THE FIELD, THROUGHOUT THE LAND...

  • 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

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    FIRE MINGLED WITH THE HAIL. — Heb., _a fire infolding itself in the midst of the hail._ (Comp. Ezekiel 1:4; and see the comment on Exodus 9:23.)...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יְהִ֣י בָרָ֔ד וְ אֵ֕שׁ מִתְלַקַּ֖חַת בְּ

  • 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

    _In all the land of. So the Hebrew: but the Samaritan and some Hebrew manuscripts have simply in Egypt. (Kennicott) --- Founded, about 627 years before. Hence it appears, that the rain falls in some p...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Daniel 12:1...

  • 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

    SO THERE WAS HAIL, AND FIRE MINGLED WITH THE HAIL,.... Which was a miracle within a miracle, as Aben Ezra observes; and very wonderful indeed it was, that the hail did not quench the fire, nor the fir...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation._ Ver. 24e. So there was hail, and fire mingled.] A...

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

    _Fire mingled with hail_ Which strange mixture much increased the miracle. The Hebrew is, fire _infolding_ or _catching itself among the hail;_ “One flash of lightning,” says Ainsworth, “taking hold o...

  • 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

    So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, in addition to the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE PLAGUE OF THE HAIL...

  • 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

    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 cause...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Exodus 9:24 hail H1259 fire H784 H3947 (H8693) mingled H8432 hail H1259 very H3966 heavy H3515 none...

  • 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...

  • 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

    _The hail shall come down upon them._ BROUGHT HOME I. God is the true home of the soul. Everything the soul needs is to be found in Him: nowhere else. Here is inviolable security, and everlasting pe...

  • 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 Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _ILLUSTRATIONS_ BY REV. WM. ADAMSON HAIL-PLAGUE! Exodus 9:22. The Psalmist says that the vines, and sycamores, and fig-trees—yea and all the trees in their coasts, were destroyed by the hailstones an...

  • 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

    none like Exodus 9:24 Exodus 10:6 Matthew 24:21...

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