So there was very severe hail, and lightning mixed with the hail, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
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So there was very severe hail, and lightning mixed with the hail, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
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So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
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So there was hail, and fire flashing up amidst the hail, very grievous, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
Cross-references (3)
Passages linked to Exodus 9:24 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 9:23 Moses stretched out his rod toward the heavens, and Yahweh sent thunder and hail; and lightning flashed down to the earth. Yahweh rained hail on the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 10:6 Your houses shall be filled, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians, as neither your fathers nor your fathers’ fathers have seen, since the day that they were on the earth to this day.’ ” He turned, and went out from Pharaoh.
- Matthew 24:21 for then there will be great suffering, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Or, since it was inhabited.
Or, since it was inhabited.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Exo 9:24 So there was hail, and fire mingled…
Exo 9:24 So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
Ver. 24e. So there was hail, and fire mingled.] A strange mixture; a miracle within a miracle, saith Rub. Solomon. Fire and water made a peace betwixt themselves, that they might obey the will of their Creator.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Which strange mixture much increased the miracle. That hail…
Which strange mixture much increased the miracle. That hail and rain did sometimes, though but seldom, fall in Egypt, is attested by divers eye-witnesses.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain So there was hail, and fire mingled with the…
So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail,.... Which was a miracle within a miracle, as Aben Ezra observes; and very wonderful indeed it was, that the hail did not quench the fire, nor the fire melt the hail, as Philo the Jew (i) remarks:
very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt, since it became a nation; See Gill on Exo 9:18.
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(i) De Vita. Mosis, l. 1. p. 620.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 24. Hail, and fire mingled with the hail]…
Verse 24. Hail, and fire mingled with the hail] It is generally allowed that the electric fluid is essential to the formation of hail. On this occasion it was supplied in a supernatural abundance; for streams of fire seem to have accompanied the descending hail, so that herbs and trees, beasts and men, were all destroyed by them.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Exo 9:24. Fire mingled with hail — Which strange…
Exo 9:24. Fire mingled with hail — Which strange mixture much increased the miracle. The Hebrew is, fire infolding or catching itself among the hail; “One flash of lightning,” says Ainsworth, “taking hold on another, and so the flames, infolding themselves, increased and burned more terribly.” The same Hebrew word is used Eze 1:4, and rendered, a fire infolding itself.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain In all the land of. So the Hebrew: but…
In all the land of. So the Hebrew: but the Samaritan and some Hebrew manuscripts have simply in Egypt. (Kennicott) --- Founded, about 627 years before. Hence it appears, that the rain falls in some parts of Egypt, (Menochius) particularly about Tanis, ver. 18, 34. (Calmet) (Wisdom xvi. 17.)
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 24. fire mingled with the hail] lit. ‘fire taking…
24. fire mingled with the hail] lit. ‘fire taking hold of itself in the midst of the hail,’ i.e. forming a continuous stream in it, paraphrased on the marg. by flashing continually amidst. The same expression recurs in Eze_1:4 ‘a great cloud, with a fire taking hold of itself’ (AV., RV. infolding itself; RVm. Or, flashing continually).
very grievous, &c.] as v. 18.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (24) Fire mingled with the hail.—Heb., a fire infolding…
(24) Fire mingled with the hail.—Heb., a fire infolding itself in the midst of the hail. (Comp. Eze_1:4; and see the comment on Exo_9:23.)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Fire mingled with the hail. Rather, "There was hail,…
Fire mingled with the hail. Rather, "There was hail, and in the midst of the hail a fire infolding itself." The expression used is the same which occurs in Eze_1:4. It seems to mean a fire that was not a mere flash, but collected itself into a mass and was seen for some considerable time.
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