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Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 9:12

Exodus 9:12. And the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart Before he had hardened his own heart, and resisted the grace of God; and now God justly gave him up to his own heart’s lusts, to strong delusions, permitting Satan to blind and harden him. Wilful hardness is generally punished with judicial hardness. Let us dread this as the sorest judgment a man can be under on this side hell. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 9:14-15

Exodus 9:14-15. I will at this time send all my plagues Either these verses relate to what was to happen some time afterward, namely, the slaying of the firstborn, or the latter verse is to be read as follows, a translation which is equally agreeable to the Hebrew: “For now I had stretched out my hand, to smite thee and thy people with pestilence, and thou hadst been cut off, &c., but that thou wast preserved” (as follows in the succeeding verse) “that it might be known that there is... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 9:16

Exodus 9:16. For this cause have I raised thee up A most dreadful message Moses is here ordered to deliver to him, whether he will hear, or whether he will forbear. He must tell him that he is marked for ruin: that he now stands as the butt at which God would shoot all the arrows of his wrath. For this cause I raised thee up To the throne, at this time; and made thee to stand The shocks of the plagues hitherto; to show in thee my power Providence so ordered it, that Moses should... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 9:17-18

Exodus 9:17-18. As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people? Against me, acting for my people. God takes what is done for or against his people as done for or against himself. Behold, tomorro w The time is precisely marked, that it might not be said to have fallen out by chance. Besides, God hereby demonstrates, that there is no part of nature but he commands, that the fire, hail, thunder, and storm obey his will. Since the foundation thereof Since it was a kingdom. 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

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 9:20

Exodus 9:20. 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 to stand in awe of God and perhaps truly to turn to him. Such persons, believing the discoveries which he had given of his displeasure at the slavery and oppression of his people, and not concurring in this part of the national crimes, regarded the notice God had given, and saved... 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 9:1

the LORD (Hebrew. Jehovah. said. See note on Exodus 3:7 , and compare note on Exodus 6:10 . Thus saith the LORD God (Hebrew. Jehovah. Elohim) of the, Hebrews. Occurs only three times, Exodus 9:1 , Exodus 9:13 and Exodus 10:3 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Exodus 9:3

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 early summer. upon. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "and upon". murrain , or pestilence. See Exodus 9:15 . read more

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