Pray to Yahweh; for there has been enough of mighty thunderings and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.”
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Pray to Yahweh; for there has been enough of mighty thunderings and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.”
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Intreat the LORD (for it is enough) that there be no more mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer.
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Entreat the LORD, and let there be enough of these mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer.'
Cross-references (6)
Passages linked to Exodus 9:28 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 8:8 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, “Entreat Yahweh, that he take away the frogs from me and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice to Yahweh.”
- Exodus 10:17 Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to Yahweh your God, that he may also take away from me this death.”
- Exodus 8:28 Pharaoh said, “I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to Yahweh your God in the wilderness, only you shall not go very far away. Pray for me.”
- Exodus 11:1 Yahweh said to Moses, “I will bring yet one more plague on Pharaoh, and on Egypt; afterwards he will let you go. When he lets you go, he will surely thrust you out altogether.
- Psalms 29:3-4 Yahweh’s voice is on the waters. The God of glory thunders, even Yahweh on many waters. Yahweh’s voice is powerful. Yahweh’s voice is full of majesty.
- Acts 8:24 Simon answered, “Pray for me to the Lord, that none of the things which you have spoken happen to me.”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Hebrew, voice of God.
Hebrew, voice of God.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Exo 9:28 Intreat the LORD (for [it is] enough)…
Exo 9:28 Intreat the LORD (for [it is] enough) that there be no [more] mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer.
Ver. 28. I will let you go.] But though he speak thus fair, believe him not: "for there are seven abominations in his heart." {Pro 26:25} No sooner was Pharaoh off the rack, but he bites in his confession, and retracts his promise.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Or, and let it be enough, (let God content…
Or, and let it be enough, (let God content himself that he hath punished me so long, and that I have confessed my sin, and promised amendment,)
that there may be hereafter
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no more.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Moses said unto him, as soon as I…
And Moses said unto him, as soon as I am gone out of the city,.... Zoan or Tanis, for it was in the field of Zoan where these wonders were wrought, Psa 78:12, the reason why he went out of the city to pray, Jarchi says, was because it was full of idols; but the truer reason was, that he might be private and alone while he was praying to God; and perhaps he went out also to show that he was not frightened at the storm, or afraid of being destroyed by it, and was confident of preservation in the midst of it, in the open field, by the power of God, whom he served:
I will spread abroad my hands unto the Lord; which was a prayer gesture directed to by the light of nature, and was used very anciently, and by the Heathens, as well as others; of which the learned Rivet has given many instances in his comment on this text:
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and the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; this he had faith in, and full assurance of before he prayed for it; he knew the mind and will of God, and not only he knew what he could do, but what he would do, and which he tells Pharaoh of before hand; which was a full proof that he was a god to Pharaoh, as the Lord said he had made him, Exo 7:1.
that thou mayest know how that the earth is the Lord's; that the whole earth is his, and therefore he can do, and does in it whatever he pleases; as the heavens also are his, and therefore can cause thunder, lightning, hail, and rain, and stop them when he thinks fit; or that the land of Egypt particularly was his, and not Pharaoh's, and therefore could destroy, or save it at his pleasure; and particularly it being his, Pharaoh had no right to detain his people in it against his will, who was Lord of it.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 28. It is enough] There is no need…
Verse 28. It is enough] There is no need of any farther plague; I submit to the authority of Jehovah and will rebel no more.
Mighty thunderings] כלת אלהים koloth Elohim, voices of God; - that is, superlatively loud thunder. So mountains of God (Ps 36:6) means exceeding high mountains. So a prince of God (Ge 23:6) means a mighty prince. See a description of thunder, Ps 29:3-8: "The VOICE OF THE LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth; the Lord is upon many waters. The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty. The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars. The voice of the Lord divideth the flames of fire. The voice of the Lord shaketh the wilderness," &c. The production of rain by the electric spark is alluded to in a very beautiful manner, Jer 10:13: When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens. See Clarke on Ge 7:11, and See Clarke on Ge 8:1.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 28. Intreat] Exo_8:8; Exo_8:28, Exo_10:17.
28. Intreat] Exo_8:8; Exo_8:28, Exo_10:17.
mighty thunderings] Heb. voices (v. 23) of God. The addition, ‘of God,’ does sometimes imply worthy to belong to God, i.e. mighty or noble (Gen_23:6, Num_24:6, Psa_36:6; Psa_68:15 RV., Psa_80:10; Psa_104:16); but, in view of the idiom explained on v. 23a, it is doubtful whether that is the case here.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Mighty thunderings. Literally, as in the margin, "voices of…
Mighty thunderings. Literally, as in the margin, "voices of God." Thunder was regarded by many nations of antiquity as the actual voice of a god. In the Vedic theology, Indra spoke in thunder. The Egyptian view on the subject has not been ascertained.
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