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Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary

Exodus 9:3

The hand of the Lord - Immediately, without the stretching out of Aaron's hand; is upon the cattle Many of which, some of all kinds, should die by a sort of pestilence. The hand of God is to be acknowledged even in the sickness and death of cattle, or other damage sustained in them; for a sparrow falls not to the ground without our Father. And his providence is to be acknowledged with thankfulness in the life of the cattle, for he preserveth man and beast, Psalms 36:6.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    _THE_ FIFTH _PLAGUE _- _THE_ MURRAIN Verse Exodus 9:3. _THE HAND OF THE LORD_] The power of God manifested in judgment. _UPON THE HORSES_] סוסים _susim_. This is the first place the _horse_ is ment...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    A VERY GRIEVOUS MURRAIN - Or “pestilence;” but the word “murrain,” i. e. “a great mortality,” exactly expresses the meaning. This terrible visitation struck far more severely than the preceding, which...

  • 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 9:1 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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HAND. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia_ (App-6). Also _Metonymy_ (of Cause), "hand" being put for the judgments inflicted by it. IN THE FIELD. The cattle, &c., were in the field in the spring and ea...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _cattle_ lit. _possessions_, commonly used of possessions in sheep and oxen (Exodus 12:38; Genesis 47:14), but including here other animals as well. _camels_ Camels were not used, or bred, in ancient...

  • 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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The _fifth_plague. The murrain on cattle. Entirely J....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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)....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    A VERY GRIEVOUS MURRAIN— דבר _deber,_ the same word as is used, Exodus 9:15 and rendered _pestilence;_ concerning which, see note on ch. Exodus 5:3. In 2 Samuel 24:14 _the pestilence_ is called _the h...

  • 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

    _BEHOLD, THE HAND OF THE LORD IS UPON THY CATTLE WHICH IS IN THE FIELD, UPON THE HORSES, UPON THE ASSES, UPON THE CAMELS, UPON THE OXEN, AND UPON THE SHEEP: THERE SHALL BE A VERY GRIEVOUS MURRAIN._ B...

  • 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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    CATTLE] A general term including the species mentioned in this verse. IN THE FIELD] Those that were housed escaped, to suffer afterwards from the plague of hail: see Exodus 9:19; Exodus 9:25. The word...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הִנֵּ֨ה יַד ־יְהוָ֜ה הֹויָ֗ה בְּ מִקְנְךָ֙ אֲ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • 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

    _My hand. God inflicts the fourth, fifth, and tenth plagues without Moses._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Mark that observation of the Apostle, Romans 8:22....

  • 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

    BEHOLD, THE HAND OF THE LORD,.... Which was stronger than his, with which he held the Israelites: IS UPON THY CATTLE WHICH IS IN THE FIELD: this takes in all in general, of which the particulars foll...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which [is] in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: [there shall be] a very grievous murrain....

  • 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

    behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thy cattle which is in the field, the domestic animals of every variety, UPON THE HORSES, UPON THE ASSES, UPON THE CAMELS, UPON THE OXEN, AND UPON THE SHEEP, upon...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE PLAGUE OF THE PESTILENCE OF BEASTS...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    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...

  • 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

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Exodus 9:3 hand H3027 LORD H3068 be H1961 (H8802) cattle H4735 field H7704 horses H5483 donkeys H2543 camels...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • 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 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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • 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

    the hand Exodus 7:4 Exodus 8:19 1 Samuel 5:6 1 Samuel 6:9 Acts 13:11 murrain. We may

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The hand of the Lord — Immediately, without the stretching out of Aaron's hand, is upon the cattle, many of which, some of all kinds, shall die by a sort of pestilence. The hand of God is to be acknow...

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