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Ex 9:18-35. PLAGUE OF HAIL.
18. I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, &c.--The
seventh plague which Pharaoh's hardened heart provoked was that of
hail, a phenomenon which must have produced the greatest astonishment
and consternation in Egypt as rain and hailstones, accompanied by
thunder and lightning, were very rare occurrences.
such as hath not been in Egypt--In the Delta, or lower Egypt,
where the scene is laid, rain occasionally falls between January and
March--hail is not unknown, and thunder sometimes heard. But a storm,
not only exhibiting all these elements, but so terrific that hailstones
of immense size fell, thunder pealed in awful volleys, and lightning
swept the ground like fire, was an unexampled calamity.
JFB.
Outline
1 The murrain of beasts
8 The plague of boils and blains
13 The message about the hail
22 The plague of hail upon the Egyptians
27 Pharaoh asks Moses to entreat the Lord
35 But yet Pharaoh is hardened
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