But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up.
God makes the clouds His arsenals. When He pleases, He draws forth hail and lightning as formidable artillery against His enemies, woeful havoc that kills men and beasts and batters down the very trees. Yet mark: Goshen was preserved untouched. God directs the pregnant clouds themselves and causes it to rain on one city and not on another.
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Commenting on Exodus 9:22-35
And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh,.... Into the field, where, being retired from company, he could freely, and without being disturbed, pray unto God: and spread abroad his hands unto the Lord; denoting the spreading of cases before God, and expectation, hope, and readiness to receive favours from him: and the thunder and hail ceased; immediately upon the entreaty of Moses; see...
This seventh plague struck Egypt with an astonishment no living inhabitant had witnessed. Rain and hail were rare in the Delta; thunder occasionally heard. But this storm, hailstones of immense size, thunder in awful volleys, lightning sweeping the ground like fire, was an unexampled calamity that revealed the absolute supremacy of Israel's God.
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Commenting on Exodus 9:18-35