For this time I will send all my plagues against your heart, against your officials, and against your people; that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth. For now I would have stretched out my hand, and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth; but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth,
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Yahweh said to Moses, “Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: “Let my people go, that they may serve me. For this time I will send all my plagues against your heart, against your officials, and against your people; that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth. For now I would have stretched out my hand, and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth; but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth, because you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won’t let them go. Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as has not been in Egypt since the day it was founded even until now. Now therefore command that all of your livestock and all that you have in the field be brought into shelter. The hail will come down on every man and animal that is found in the field, and isn’t brought home, and they will die.” ’ ”
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For this time I will send all my plagues against your heart, against your officials, and against your people; that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.
For now I would have stretched out my hand, and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth;
but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth,
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For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth.
For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.
And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.
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For I will this time send all My plagues upon thy person, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like Me in all the earth.
Surely now I had put forth My hand, and smitten thee and thy people with pestilence, and thou hadst been cut off from the earth.
But in very deed for this cause have I made thee to stand, to show thee My power, and that My name may be declared throughout all the earth.
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- Romans 9:17 (v16) For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name…
- Proverbs 16:4 (v16) Yahweh has made everything for its own end— yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.
- Psalms 83:17-18 (v16) Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish; that they may know that you alone, whose name is…
- 1 Chronicles 16:24 (v16) Declare his glory among the nations, and his marvelous works among all the peoples.
- Psalms 64:9 (v16) All mankind shall be afraid. They shall declare the work of God, and shall wisely ponder what he has done.
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- Exodus 8:10 (v14) Pharaoh said, “Tomorrow.” Moses said, “Let it be according to your word, that you may know that there is no one like Yahweh our God.
- Exodus 14:4 (v16) I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will follow after them; and I will get honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies; and the Egyptians…
- Exodus 14:17 (v16) Behold, I myself will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they will go in after them. I will get myself honor over Pharaoh, and over…
- Exodus 3:20 (v15) I will reach out my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders which I will do among them, and after that he will let you go.
- Exodus 18:11 (v16) Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the way that they treated people arrogantly.”
- Malachi 1:11 (v16) For from the rising of the sun even to its going down, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my…
- Romans 9:22 (v16) What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
- Psalms 136:10-15 (v16) to him who struck down the Egyptian firstborn; for his loving kindness endures forever; and brought out Israel from among them; for his…
- 1 Peter 2:8 (v16) and, “a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.
- Jude 1:4 (v16) For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the…
- 1 Samuel 4:8 (vv14, 16) Woe to us! Who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods that struck the Egyptians with all kinds of…
- Exodus 9:3 (v15) behold, Yahweh’s hand is on your livestock which are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the herds, and on the…
- Exodus 9:6 (v15) Yahweh did that thing on the next day; and all the livestock of Egypt died, but of the livestock of the children of Israel, not one died.
- Exodus 9:16 (v15) but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth,
- Exodus 11:4-6 (v15) Moses said, “This is what Yahweh says: ‘About midnight I will go out into the middle of Egypt, and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt…
- Exodus 12:29-30 (v15) At midnight, Yahweh struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of…
- Exodus 14:28 (v15) The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh’s army that went in after them into the sea. There…
- Exodus 15:11-16 (v16) Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? You stretched out your…
- Leviticus 26:18 (v14) “ ‘If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.
- Leviticus 26:21 (v14) “ ‘If you walk contrary to me, and won’t listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.
- Leviticus 26:28 (v14) then I will walk contrary to you in wrath. I will also chastise you seven times for your sins.
- Deuteronomy 28:15-17 (v14) But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which…
- Deuteronomy 28:59-61 (v14) then Yahweh will make your plagues and the plagues of your offspring fearful, even great plagues, and of long duration, and severe…
- Deuteronomy 29:20-22 (v14) Yahweh will not pardon him, but then Yahweh’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this…
- Deuteronomy 32:39-42 (v14) “See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of…
- Joshua 2:10-11 (v16) For we have heard how Yahweh dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of…
- 2 Samuel 7:22 (v14) Therefore you are great, Yahweh God. For there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have…
- 1 Kings 8:38 (v14) whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and…
- 1 Kings 13:34 (v15) This thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the surface of the earth.
- 1 Chronicles 17:20 (v14) Yahweh, there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
- Psalms 86:8 (v14) There is no one like you among the gods, Lord, nor any deeds like your deeds.
- Proverbs 2:22 (v15) But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.
- Isaiah 46:9 (v14) Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is no other. I am God, and there is none like me.
- Isaiah 63:12-14 (v16) Who caused his glorious arm to be at Moses’ right hand? Who divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name? Who led…
- Jeremiah 10:6 (v14) There is no one like you, Yahweh. You are great, and your name is great in might.
- Jeremiah 19:8 (v14) I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.
- Micah 6:13 (v14) Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins.
- Malachi 1:14 (v16) “But the deceiver is cursed, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a defective thing; for I am a great King,”…
- 1 Peter 2:19 (v16) For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.
- Revelation 18:8 (v14) Therefore in one day her plagues will come: death, mourning, and famine; and she will be utterly burned with fire; for the Lord God who has…
- Revelation 22:18 (v14) I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone adds to them, may God add to him the plagues which are…
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv14, 16 So that thine own conscience shall condemn thee of…
So that thine own conscience shall condemn thee of ingratitude and malice.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv14–16 Exo 9:14 For I will at this time send…
Exo 9:14 For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that [there is] none like me in all the earth.
Ver. 14. All my plagues upon thine heart.] Heart plagues are the worst plagues of all. A hard heart is in some respects worse than hell: since one of the greatest sins is greater in evil, than any of the greatest punishments.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv14–16 Upon thine heart, or, into thy heart: thou hast…
Upon thine heart, or, into thy heart: thou hast hitherto not felt my plagues upon thy own person or thy body, but I shall shortly reach and wound it, and that not only in the skin, as the magicians and others are now smitten, but even to thy heart, such as shall make thy heart sick, Mic 6:13, such as shall give thee a mortal and irrecoverable wound. Some understand it of inward and spiritual judgments upon Pharaoh’s heart, such as hardness of heart; but that plague had been inflicted upon him, and is recorded before this time. And Pharaoh’s heart being here opposed to his servants and people, seems rather to denote his person, the heart or soul being often put synecdochically for the whole man.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv14–16 For I will at this time send all my…
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 say, but all that he had determined in his mind to bring upon him; and these should not so much affect and afflict his body, as the boils and ulcers had the magicians, but should reach his heart, and fill him with horror and terror:
and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; even all that he intended to bring not only upon himself, but upon his subjects, both high and low:
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that thou mayest know, that there is none like unto me in all the earth; for the perfections of his nature, and the works of his hands, particularly his providential dealings with the sons of men, and especially with him.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On vv14, 16 I will find all my plagues upon thy heart…
I will find all my plagues upon thy heart - Hitherto thou hast not felt my plagues on thy own person, the heart is put for the whole man.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On vv15–16 Verse 15. For now I will stretch out my…
Verse 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 this place. If the words be translated, as they ought, in the subjunctive mood, or in the past instead of the future, this seeming contradiction to facts, as well as all ambiguity, will be avoided: For if now I HAD STRETCHED OUT (שלהתי shalachti, had set forth) my hand, and had smitten thee (ואך אותך vaach otheca) and thy people with the pestilence, thou SHOULDST HAVE BEEN cut off (תכחד ticcached) from the earth.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On vv14, 16 Exo 9:14-15. I will at this time send all…
Exo 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 none like me in all the earth.” All my plagues upon thy heart — Hitherto thou hast not felt my plagues on thy own person; but I will shortly reach and wound it: will give thee a wound that will pierce thy very heart; an irrecoverable and mortal wound. Who can tell the greatness of his wrath, or what a fearful thing it is to fall under the righteous judgment of a holy and offended God?
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv14–16 Plagues of fire and hail, that thy heart may…
Plagues of fire and hail, that thy heart may relent. But as all my chastisements will not produce this effect, I will be glorified in thy fall. (Haydock) --- I could now strike thee dead; (ver. 15,) but I reserve thee for a more dreadful punishment, (ver. 17,) in the waters of the Red Sea. (Calmet)
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv14–16 14. For I will at this time send all…
14. For I will at this time send all my plagues — Only lighter strokes had fallen hitherto, but now more dreadful judgments impend.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv14–16 14. this time … all my plagues] The two…
14. this time … all my plagues] The two expressions seem hardly consistent: ‘this time’ shews that the hail is referred to, while ‘all my plagues’ points to much more than a single plague. J writes as a rule so clearly that the inconsistency is urged as one reason for supposing that vv. 14–16 are not from his hand.
plagues] Heb. maggçphâh, properly a severe stroke or blow, only here of the ‘plagues’ of Egypt (cf. the cognate verb ‘smite’ in Exo_8:2 Exo_12:23; Exo_12:27, Jos_24:5); of a great defeat in war (EVV. slaughter), 1Sa_4:17 (vv. 2, 10 the cognate verb, ‘smitten’), 2Sa_18:7 (with ‘smitten’) al.; of various supernatural chastisements, Num_14:37; Num_16:48-50; Num_25:8-9; Num_25:18, 2Sa_24:21; 2Sa_24:25, Zec_14:12; Zec_14:15; Zec_14:18.
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upon thine heart] The expression (though it might be interpreted with Di. as a reference to the Pharaoh’s hardened heart) is strange: read, probably, changing one letter, all these my plagues (cf. Exo_10:1) upon thee (אלה בך for אל לבך), and upon thy servants, &c.; cf. Exo_8:4; Exo_8:9; Exo_8:11; Exo_8:21; Exo_8:29.
that thou mayest know, &c.] See on Exo_8:10.
14–16. The announcement of the plague (vv. 13, 17–18) is interrupted by a passage, intended evidently (Di.) to explain why, when so many plagues have produced no impression upon the Pharaoh, God continues to send fresh ones upon him: He does so in order to extort from him the recognition of Himself, and that His name may be made known throughout the world; had this not been His motive, He would ere now have summarily removed him from the earth. By Di. and others this explanation (vv. 14–16) is considered to be a didactic addition of the compiler’s (cf. on Exo_10:1 b–2). Cf. the Introd. p. xvii.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv14–16 (14) I will . . . send all my…
(14) I will . . . send all my plagues upon thine heart.—The naturally obdurate heart of Pharaoh, which he had further indurated by his own voluntary action (Exo_8:15; Exo_8:32), and which God had begun to harden penally (Exo_9:12), was now to be softened by a repetition of blow after blow, until it should finally succumb, and yield, and humble itself under the mighty hand of God, and consent to the departure of the whole people, with flocks, and herds, and “little ones.”
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv14–16 I will at this time send all my plagues…
I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart. A very emphatic announcement. At this time contrasts the immediate future with the past, and tells Pharaoh that the hour of mild warnings and slight plagues is gone by. Now he is to expect something far more terrible God will send all his plagues every worst form of evil in rapid succession; and will send them against his heart. Each will strike a blow on that perverse and obdurate heart each will stir his nature to its inmost depths. Conscience will wake up and insist on being heard. All the numerous brood of selfish fears and alarms will bestir themselves. He will tremble, and be amazed and perplexed. He will forego his pride and humble himself, and beg the Israelites to be gone, and even intreat that, ere they depart, the leaders whom he has so long opposed, will give him their blessing. (Exo_12:32) That thou mayest know. Pharaoh was himself to be convinced that the Lord God of Israel was, at any rate, the greatest of all gods. He was not likely to desert at once and altogether the religion in which he had been brought up, or to regard its gods as nonexistent. But he might be persuaded of one thing that Jehovah was far above them. And this he practically acknowledges in vers. 27 and 28.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v15 reached out with my hand and attacked you
reached out with my hand and attacked you
Here "my hand" refers to God's power. AT: "used my power to strike you" (See: Metonymy)
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so that my name may be proclaimed throughout all the earth
Here "my name" represents Yahweh's reputation. AT: "so that people everywhere will know I am great" (See: Metonymy)
lifting yourself up against my people
Pharaoh's opposition to letting Israel go to worship Yahweh is spoken of as if he was raising himself up as a barrier to them. (See: Metaphor)
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv14, 16 9:14-17 God explained the purpose of the plagues to…
9:14-17 God explained the purpose of the plagues to Pharaoh: They were revelatory, designed to demonstrate (especially to Pharaoh) that there is no one like me in all the earth (9:14; see also Isa 46:9; Jer 10:6-7). God had not destroyed Pharaoh and Egypt in a single blow, as he could have done. Rather he had spared them (Exod 9:16), giving them an opportunity to submit to his power. But Pharaoh refused to humble himself and stop lording it over the Lord’s people (9:17).
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