The Seventh Plague: Hail hear this: tomorrow about this time I will send a very heavy and dreadful hail, such as has not been seen in Egypt from the day it was founded until now. Exo 9:18
INTRODUCTION TO THE OLD TESTAMENT
The Nation Israel Delivered and Organized
ISRAEL IN EGYPT, Exodus 1:8-12:36
19. What further bl ow fell from heaven and with what effect?
THE SEVENTH PLAGUE: HAIL
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, “Let My people go, so that they may serve Me.
For this time I will send all My plagues on you [in full force,] and on your servants and on your people, so that you may know [without any doubt] and acknowledge that there is no one like Me in all the earth.
For by now I could have put out My hand and struck you and your people with a pestilence, and you would then have been cut off (obliterated) from the earth.
But indeed for this very reason I have allowed you to live, in order to show you My power and in order that My name may be proclaimed throughout all the earth. [Rom_9:17-24]
Since you are still [arrogantly] exalting yourself [in defiance] against My people by not letting them go,
hear this: tomorrow about this time I will send a very heavy and dreadful hail, such as has not been seen in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.
Now therefore send [a message], bring your livestock and whatever you have in the field to safety. Every man and animal that is in the field and is not brought home shall be struck by the hail and shall die.”‘”
Then everyone among the servants of Pharaoh who feared the word of the LORD made his servants and his livestock flee into the houses and shelters;
but everyone who ignored and did not take seriously the word of the LORD left his servants and his livestock in the field.
Now the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand [with your staff] toward the sky, so that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on man and on animal and on all the vegetation of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.”
Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and lightning (fireballs) ran down to the earth and along the ground. And the LORD rained hail on the land of Egypt.
So there was hail, and lightning (fireballs) flashing intermittently in the midst of the extremely heavy hail, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
The hail struck down everything that was in the field throughout all the land of Egypt, both man and animal; the hail struck and beat down all the plants in the field and shattered every tree in the field.
Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel lived, was there no hail.
Then Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “I have sinned this time; the LORD is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.
Pray and entreat the LORD, for there has been enough of God’s thunder and hail; I will let you go, and you shall stay here no longer.”
Moses said to him, “As soon as I leave the city, I will stretch out my hands to the LORD; the thunder will cease and there will be no more hail, so that you may know [without any doubt] and acknowledge that the earth is the LORD’S.
But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear the LORD God.”
(Now the flax and the barley were battered and ruined [by the hail], because the barley was in the ear (ripe, but soft) and the flax was in bud,
but the wheat and spelt (coarse wheat) were not battered and ruined, because they ripen late in the season.)
So Moses left the city and Pharaoh, and stretched out his hands to the LORD; then the thunder and hail ceased, and rain no longer poured on the earth.
But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, he sinned again and hardened his heart, both he and his servants.
Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he did not let the Israelites go, just as the LORD had said through Moses. [Exo_4:21]
Comments by
F.B.Meyer
On
Exodus 9:13-35
MIGHTY THUNDERINGS AND HAIL
This paragraph recalls Rev_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 servants of God had been sealed on their foreheads. Only when this had been effected did the trumpets give signal of the disasters that broke successively on the earth. See Rev_8:7, etc. The only spot in which the soul is safe is within the encircling provisions of the covenant. Israel stood there and was safe, not only from the hail but from the destroying sword. It was as safe a spot as the center of a cyclone is said to be. God had bound Himself by the most solemn sanctions to be a God to His people and deliver them. It was in pursuance of this pledge that He was their pavilion and canopy in this awful hour, catching the hailstones on His pinions, and securing them from hurt. Directly we trust in Christ He becomes our hiding-place from the storms of judgment and condemnation, Heb_13:20.
Comments by
WILLIAM MACDONALD
Believers Bible Commentary
On
Exodus 9:13-35
IV. MOSES’ CONFRONTATIONS WITH PHARAOH (5:1–7:13)
V. THE FIRST NINE PLAGUES (7:14–10:29)
G. The Seventh Plague—Hail and Fire (9:13-35)
“All My plagues” probably indicates the full force of God’s plagues. The Lord reminds Pharaoh that He could have destroyed him and the Egyptians with the preceding pestilence, but instead He had spared Pharaoh in order to demonstrate His power and spread His fame. There is no thought in verse 16 that Pharaoh was predestined to be damned. Reprobation is not a Bible doctrine. The Lord used Pharaoh as an example of what happens to a person who is determined to resist the power of God (see also Rom_9:16-17).
The next plague consisted of hail and lightning or fire, accompanied by thunder. It destroyed men, beasts, and the flax and . . . barley, that were ready for harvest (cf. vv. 31, 32); but the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they are late crops. The Israelites, dwelling in Goshen, were untouched. In response to Pharaoh’s plea, Moses prayed and the plague stopped. But, as Moses expected, Pharaoh became even more adamant against letting the Hebrews leave.
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