“ But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up. ”
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 7:14 to Exodus 12:36 . The Ten Plagues. How deeply this series of events imprinted itself on the mind and heart of the nation is shown by the fulness with which the three sources report t...
But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up. But the wheat and the rye were not smitten - Wheat, חטה chittah, which Mr. Parkhurst thinks should be derived from the Chalde...
For they were not grown up— Margin of our Bibles— were hidden or dark. Bochart reads it, for they were not yet eared. Parkhurst, from Fuller, upon the word [אפל] apel, observes, that hidden...
And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled. The flax and barley was smitten ... The peculiarities that are mentioned in these cereal produ...
The Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Plagues 1-7. 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...
The wheat and the rie. — “Rie,” or rye, is a wrong translation. It is a grain which has never been grown in Egypt. The only three kinds of grain cultivated were wheat, barley, and the holcus sorgh...
THE SEVENTH PLAGUE. Exodus 9:13-35 . The hardening of Pharaoh's heart, we have argued, was not the debauching of his spirit, but only the strengthening of his will. "Wait on the Lord and be of...
Mighty Thunderings and Hail Exodus 9:13-35 This paragraph recalls Revelation 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 patient method of God is manifest in that, notwithstanding the fact that Pharaoh had again broken faith, God again warned him. There being no evidence of repentance, the fifth plague fell upon th...
Was not Moses in all this a type of the ever-blessed Jesus?
But the wheat and the rye were not smitten ,.... Bruised, broken, beat down, and destroyed by hail: the word by us rendered "rye", and by other "fitches" or "spelt", is thought by Dr. Shaw q to be "...
But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they [were] not grown up. Ver. 32. See Trapp on " Exo 9:31 "
They were not grown up Were hidden , or dark , as the margin reads it; or late , as many interpreters render the expression. This kind of corn, coming later up, was now tender, and hidden, eithe...
PLAGUE NO.5 -- LIVESTOCK DISEASED (vs.1-7) Again the Lord requires Moses to repeat his demand to Pharaoh to let the people go. This time He warns that if Pharaoh refuses, He will send a very seve...
22 And the L ORD said unto Moses, Stretch forth thine hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, through...
The Hebrew word may be rendered either dark or hid , to wit, under the ground, whereby it was secured from this stroke; or late , as divers of the Hebrews and other interpreters render it. This k...
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...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 9:31 . Bolled] “In flower.” MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 9:29-35 WISE MINISTERIAL TREATMENT OF AN OBSTINATE SINNER Moses was a true minister. He was a...
Exodus 9:6 . All the cattle of Egypt died; that is, all were smitten with the murrain, whose unbelieving owners did not take care to house them: so we read in the twentieth verse concerning the ha...
EXPOSITION The plague of hail impressed the Pharaoh more than any previous one. It was the first which had inflicted death on men. It was a most striking and terrible manifestation. It was quite...
The Plague of the Hail
not grown up. Heb. hidden or dark