Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 9:13-35
The Seventh Plague - The Plague of Great Hail Such as Had Never Been in Egypt (Exodus 9:13-35 ). We now come to the third series of plagues which this time come as judgments from the heavens, the great hail and mighty thunderstorm, the huge cloud of locusts, and finally the plague of thick darkness. All are portents from the heavens. All bring darkness of one kind or another. It is a dark time for Egypt. Pharaoh was now approached again and this time the warning is more severe. Disease has... read more
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 9:29
THE EARTH IS THE LORD’S‘That thou mayest know how that the earth is the Lord’s.’ Exodus 9:29 I. The Egyptians did not know, being taught otherwise.—Therefore the lesson was made to be unforgetable. In the awful sweep and crush of mighty hail, in the leaping fires of the lightning, in thunders that terrified the stoutest, but most of all in the coming and the passing of these terrors at the word of God’s servant, they were made to feel His being and majesty. II. Our generation needs the same... read more