Exodus 9:14-19

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 9:13-21

Here is, I. A general declaration of the wrath of God against Pharaoh for his obstinacy. Though God has hardened his heart (Exod. 9:12), yet Moses must repeat his applications to him; God suspends his grace and yet demands obedience, to punish him for requiring bricks of the children of Israel when he denied them straw. God would likewise show forth a pattern of long-suffering, and how he waits to be gracious to a rebellious and gainsaying people Six times the demand had been made in vain, yet... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 9:14

For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart ,.... Not meaning particularly the plague of the hail, which next follows, so called, because it consisted of various things, as hail, rain, lightning, and thunder, as Aben Ezra, and who observes, that Pharaoh was more terrified with this plague than with any other; but rather all the plagues yet to come, for by them are not meant all the plagues that were in the power of God to inflict, which how many and great they are none can... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 9:15

For now will I stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence ,.... Which yet we never find was done; for though this by many is referred to the slaying of the firstborn, yet it is not certain that this was done by the pestilence: besides, Pharaoh was not then smitten, nor his people, only their firstborn; wherefore these words are to be rendered, not in the future, but in the imperfect or preterpluperfect tense, thus; "for when now I stretched out my hand, or if... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 9:16

And in very deed, for this cause have I raised thee up ,.... Or but truly or verily F3 ואולם "veruntamen", Junius & Tremellius, Psicator, Drusius, Fagius; so Ainsworth. ; instead of smiting thee with the pestilence, and cutting thee off out of the land of the living, "I have raised thee up"; made thee to stand F4 העמדתיך "stare fecite", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus. , to continue in being; I have preserved thine from perishing by the former plagues, and have reserved thee... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 9:17

As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go? And so against God himself, disobeying his commands, despising his messengers, and slighting his miracles, and hardening his heart against him, and refusing to let Israel go, after all; thereby showing the most intolerable pride and insolence not only against the Lord's poor people, but against himself, for what is done to them he takes as done to himself; or "dost thou still tread upon my people?" F5 עודך ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 9:18

Behold, tomorrow about this time ,.... It was now the fourth day of the month Abib, and the fifth when the following was inflicted: I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail ; which should fall very thick, and the hailstones be very numerous and heavy, and the storm last long: such as hath not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof, even until now ; not since the earth or land itself was founded, for that was founded when the rest of the world was, and the sense then would be... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 9:19

Send therefore now, and gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field ,.... The servants that were at work there: this is said to denote both the certainty of the plague, and the terribleness of it, that all, both men and beast, would perish by it, if care was not taken to get them home; and also to show the wonderful clemency and mercy of God to such rebellious, hardened, and undeserving creatures, as Pharaoh and his people were; in the midst of wrath and judgment God remembers... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 9:15

For now I will stretch out my hand - In the Hebrew the verbs are in the past tense, and not in the future, as our translation improperly expresses them, by which means a contradiction appears in the text: for neither Pharaoh nor his people were smitten by a pestilence, nor was he by any kind of mortality cut off from the earth. It is true the first-born were slain by a destroying angel, and Pharaoh himself was drowned in the Red Sea; but these judgments do not appear to be referred to in... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 9:16

But truly, on this very account, have I caused thee to subsist - ( העמדחיך heemadticha ), that I might cause thee to see my power, ( כחי את הראתך harotheca eth cochi ), and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth, (or, הארץ בכל becol haarets , in all this land). See Ainsworth and Houbigant. Thus God gave this impious king to know that it was in consequence of his especial providence that both he and his people had not been already destroyed by means of the past... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 9:17

As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people - So it appears that at this time he might have submitted, and thus prevented his own destruction. read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 9:13-21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 9:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 9:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 9:16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 9:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 9:18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 9:19

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 9:15

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 9:16

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 9:17

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