Exodus 9:19

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 9:13-34

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.Exodus 9:14All my plagues - This applies to all the plagues which follow; the effect of each was foreseen and foretold. The words “at this time” point to a rapid and continuous succession of blows. The plagues which precede appear to have been spread over a considerable time; the first message of Moses... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 9:19

Exodus 9:19. Send now therefore and gather thy cattle This warning God gives to mitigate the severity of the judgment, to show his justice in punishing so wicked and obstinate a people as would not hearken either to his words or former works, and especially to make a difference between the penitent and the incorrigible Egyptians, it being far from God to inflict the same punishment on those who mourn because of any national crime, and those who for their profit or pleasure will continue to... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Exodus 9:1-35

Nine plagues (7:14-10:29)The timing, intensity and extent of these plagues show clearly that they were sent by God. It also seems fairly clear that God used the physical characteristics of the Nile valley to produce them.When the first plague struck, it polluted all the water in the Nile and in the irrigation canals and reservoirs connected with it, resulting in all the fish dying. As the dead fish floated to the banks they would force the frogs out of the water, thereby producing the second... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Exodus 9:19

and shall not be brought home = Figure of speech Pleonasm ( App-6 ). read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Exodus 9:19-21

"Now therefore send, hasten in thy cattle and all that thou hast in the field; for every man and beast that shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die. And he that feared the word of Jehovah among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses: and he that regarded not the word of Jehovah left his servants and his cattle in the field."The dreadful hail had been predicted in Exodus 9:18, but... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 9:13-29

6. The seventh, eighth, and ninth plagues 9:13-10:29Moses announced the purpose of the following plagues to Pharaoh "in the morning" (cf. Exodus 7:15; Exodus 8:20). This purpose was twofold: that Pharaoh personally might know God’s power (Exodus 9:14) and that the whole world might know it (Exodus 9:16; cf. Romans 9:17). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 9:13-35

Hail (the seventh plague) 9:13-35God sent the worst hailstorm Egypt had ever experienced (Exodus 9:18; Exodus 9:24) and accompanied it with thunder, fire (lightning?), and rain (Exodus 9:23; Exodus 9:34). [Note: See Robert B. Chisholm Jr., "The Polemic against Baalism in Israel’s Early History and Literature," Bibliotheca Sacra 151:603 (July-September 1994):271-74.] "The recurring thunderclaps . . ., the lightning darting back and forth . . ., and the severity of the storm . . . all suggest the... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 9:1-35

The Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Plagues1-7. 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 miraculous nature of the plague recorded here consisted in its occurring at a set time (Exodus 9:5), and in the exemption of the cattle of the Israelites, and of the cattle that were housed. This plague was, so far, the most destructive in its effects, entailing a much more serious loss of property than... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Exodus 9:13-19

THE SEVENTH PLAGUE.(13-19) The plagues fall into triads, or groups of three. This is the first plague of the third group, and presents to us several new features. (1) It is ushered in with an unusually long and exceeding awful message (Exodus 9:13-19), in which Pharaoh is warned that God is now about to “send all His plagues upon his heart,” and that he has been raised up simply that God may show forth His power in his person. (2) It is the first plague that attacks human life; and this it does... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Exodus 9:19

(19) Gather thy cattle.—The peculiar circumstances of Egypt, where the whole country was overflowed by the Nile during some months of each year, caused the provision of shelter for cattle to be abnormally great. Every year, at the time of the inundation, all the cattle had to be “gathered” into sheds and cattle-yards in the immediate vicinity of the villages and towns, which were protected from the inundation by high mounds. Thus it would have been easy to house all the cattle that remained to... read more

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