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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 9:20

Some of the Egyptians, at all events, had been impressed with the previous plagues, and had come to believe the predictions of Moses.

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See also Exodus 9:20 in other biblical comments:

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

  • 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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    How the Pharaoh's servants i.e. his courtiers and minister act in consequence. 22, 23A (E). The hail comes at the signal given by Moses with his rod. The rod in _Moses_" hand is a mark of E: see on E...

  • 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...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 72 THE DANGER OF DISREGARDING THE WORD OF GOD Exodus 9:20._ He that feared the word of the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh, made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses: and he...

  • 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

    _HE THAT FEARED THE WORD OF THE LORD AMONG THE SERVANTS OF PHARAOH MADE HIS SERVANTS AND HIS CATTLE FLEE INTO THE HOUSES:_ He that feared ... regarded not ... Due premonition, it appears, had been pu...

  • 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

    HE THAT FEARED... — _Some_ impression, we see, had been made by the preceding plagues, and the warning was taken to some extent; but it was otherwise with many. So in Gospel times, “Some believed the...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הַ יָּרֵא֙ אֶת ־דְּבַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה מֵֽ עַבְדֵ֖י

  • 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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I think it worthy observation, that the Lord who hath all hearts at his disposal, not only made a difference between the believing Israelite and the unbelieving Egyptian; but between one Egyptian and...

  • 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 Calvin's Bible Commentary

    20._He that feared the word of the Lord. _In these words Moses shows that there were some who were so far taught by experience as not altogether to despise what he had denounced; for hence arose their...

  • 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

    HE THAT FEARED THE WORD OF THE LORD AMONG THE SERVANTS OF PHARAOH,.... Who, if they had not the true fear of God, and were not sincere proselytes, yet had a servile fear of him, and dreaded his word,...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    He that feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses: Ver. 20. _He that feared the word of the Lord._] As few will do till they feel...

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

    _He that feared the word of the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh_ By this time it appears that these terrible judgments had not been executed entirely in vain. A few, at least, were hereby brought t...

  • 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

    THE HAIL THREATENED...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    He that feared the word of the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses;...

  • 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

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Exodus 9:20 feared H3373 word H1697 LORD H3068 servants H5650 Pharaoh H6547 servants H5650 livestock H4735 flee H5127 ...

  • 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 9:18 Explaining how to find SAFE SHELTER from the hail was a test to indicate who had taken the plagues to heart and now FEARED THE WORD OF THE LORD. The reference to

  • 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

    _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 9:17_ THE PLAGUE OF HAIL THREATENED; OR, ATTENTION TO THE WORD OF GOD THE CONDITION OF SAFETY IN THE FINAL JUDGMENT OF LIFE Here is a particular prediction...

  • 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

    Proverbs 6:16 Proverbs 22:2 Proverbs 22:23 Jonah 3:5 Jonah 3:6...

  • When Critics Ask: A Popular Handbook on Bible Difficulties, Norman L. Geisler and Thomas Howe, 1960

    If all the cattle died, then how did some survive? PROBLEM: Exodus 9:6 asserts that “all the livestock of Egypt died” in the fifth plague. Yet only a few verses later it instructs them to “gather you...

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