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<i>and</i> the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest know how that the earth <i>is</i> the LORD'S.</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/barnes/exodus/9.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/exodus/9.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/exodus/9.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/calvin/exodus/9.htm" title="Calvin's Commentaries">Calvin</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/exodus/9.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/exodus/9.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/exodus/9.htm" title="Darby's Bible Synopsis">Darby</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ellicott/exodus/9.htm" title="Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers">Ellicott</a> • <a href="/commentaries/expositors/exodus/9.htm" title="Expositor's Bible">Expositor's</a> • <a href="/commentaries/edt/exodus/9.htm" title="Expositor's Dictionary">Exp Dct</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gaebelein/exodus/9.htm" title="Gaebelein's Annotated Bible">Gaebelein</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gsb/exodus/9.htm" title="Geneva Study Bible">GSB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gill/exodus/9.htm" title="Gill's Bible Exposition">Gill</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gray/exodus/9.htm" title="Gray's Concise">Gray</a> • <a href="/commentaries/guzik/exodus/9.htm" title="Guzik Bible Commentary">Guzik</a> • <a href="/commentaries/haydock/exodus/9.htm" title="Haydock Catholic Bible Commentary">Haydock</a> • <a href="/commentaries/hastings/exodus/3-13.htm" title="Hastings Great Texts">Hastings</a> • <a href="/commentaries/homiletics/exodus/9.htm" title="Pulpit Homiletics">Homiletics</a> • <a href="/commentaries/jfb/exodus/9.htm" title="Jamieson-Fausset-Brown">JFB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/kad/exodus/9.htm" title="Keil and Delitzsch OT">KD</a> • <a href="/commentaries/king-en/exodus/9.htm" title="Kingcomments Bible Studies">King</a> • <a href="/commentaries/lange/exodus/9.htm" title="Lange Commentary">Lange</a> • <a href="/commentaries/maclaren/exodus/9.htm" title="MacLaren Expositions">MacLaren</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhc/exodus/9.htm" title="Matthew Henry Concise">MHC</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhcw/exodus/9.htm" title="Matthew Henry Full">MHCW</a> • <a href="/commentaries/parker/exodus/9.htm" title="The People's Bible by Joseph Parker">Parker</a> • <a href="/commentaries/poole/exodus/9.htm" title="Matthew Poole">Poole</a> • <a href="/commentaries/pulpit/exodus/9.htm" title="Pulpit Commentary">Pulpit</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sermon/exodus/9.htm" title="Sermon Bible">Sermon</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sco/exodus/9.htm" title="Scofield Reference Notes">SCO</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ttb/exodus/9.htm" title="Through The Bible">TTB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/wes/exodus/9.htm" title="Wesley's Notes">WES</a> • <a href="#tsk" title="Treasury of Scripture Knowledge">TSK</a></div><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="comtype">EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/exodus/9.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(29) <span class= "bld">That thou mayest know how that the earth is the Lord’s.</span>—Comp, <a href="/exodus/9-15.htm" title="For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite you and your people with pestilence; and you shall be cut off from the earth.">Exodus 9:15</a>. It was the general belief of the Egyptians, as of most ancient nations, that each country had its own god or gods. Pharaoh had already admitted Jehovah’s power (<a href="/exodus/8-8.htm" title="Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Entreat the LORD, that he may take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may do sacrifice to the LORD.">Exodus 8:8</a>), and now regarded Him as the God of the Hebrews (<a href="/exodus/8-28.htm" title="And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only you shall not go very far away: entreat for me.">Exodus 8:28</a>). God desired to have it generally acknowledged that He was the God of the whole earth.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/benson/exodus/9.htm">Benson Commentary</a></div><span class="bld"><a href="/exodus/9-29.htm" title="And Moses said to him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands to the LORD; and the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that you may know how that the earth is the LORD's.">Exodus 9:29</a></span>. <span class="ital">That the earth is the Lord’s — </span>That is, the whole world, the heavens and the earth. This is one great point that the Scriptures are intended to establish, that the whole universe, and all creatures therein, belong to the Lord, and are under his government. This truth, the foundation of all religion, ought to be established in our hearts, that we may put our trust in him, and be resigned to his will, whatever the dispensations of his adorable providence may be; however mysterious and unsearchable, as to the reasons of them, persuaded that they are as wise as they are powerful, and as gracious as they are just and holy, and will assuredly all work for good to those that love him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/exodus/9.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>9:22-35 Woful havoc this hail made: it killed both men and cattle; the corn above ground was destroyed, and that only preserved which as yet was not come up. The land of Goshen was preserved. God causes rain or hail on one city and not on another, either in mercy or in judgment. Pharaoh humbled himself to Moses. No man could have spoken better: he owns himself wrong; he owns that the Lord is righteous; and God must be justified when he speaks, though he speaks in thunder and lightning. Yet his heart was hardened all this while. Moses pleads with God: though he had reason to think Pharaoh would repent of his repentance, and he told him so, yet he promises to be his friend. Moses went out of the city, notwithstanding the hail and lightning which kept Pharaoh and his servants within doors. Peace with God makes men thunder-proof. Pharaoh was frightened by the tremendous judgment; but when that was over, his fair promises were forgotten. Those that are not bettered by judgments and mercies, commonly become worse.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/exodus/9.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>The earth is the Lord's - This declaration has a direct reference to Egyptian superstition. Each god was held to have special power within a given district; Pharaoh had learned that Yahweh was a god, he was now to admit that His power extended over the whole earth. The unity and universality of the divine power, though occasionally recognized in ancient Egyptian documents, were overlaid at a very early period by systems alternating between Polytheism and Pantheism.<a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/exodus/9.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>27-35. Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I have sinned—This awful display of divine displeasure did seriously impress the mind of Pharaoh, and, under the weight of his convictions, he humbles himself to confess he has done wrong in opposing the divine will. At the same time he calls for Moses to intercede for cessation of the calamity. Moses accedes to his earnest wishes, and this most awful visitation ended. But his repentance proved a transient feeling, and his obduracy soon became as great as before.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/exodus/9.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> Or, <span class="ital">that this land is the Lord’s</span>, even his whom thou deniedst to have any jurisdiction in it, or over thee, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/exodus/5-2.htm" title="And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.">Exodus 5:2</a></span>. Or the <span class="ital">earth</span> is put for the world, the heaven and the earth: q. d. That thou mayst see that he can either cause the heavens to send forth such thunders and hails, or restrain them as he pleaseth. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/exodus/9.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>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, <a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/78-12.htm">Psalm 78:12</a>, 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: <p>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: <p>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, <a href="/exodus/7-1.htm">Exodus 7:1</a>. <p>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. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/exodus/9.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands unto the LORD; and the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest know how that the earth is the LORD's.</span></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/exodus/9.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">29</span>. <span class="ital">spread abroad my hands</span>] The attitude of prayer: <span class="ital">v.</span> 33, <a href="/1_kings/8-22.htm" title="And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:">1 Kings 8:22</a>; <a href="/1_kings/8-38.htm" title="What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all your people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:">1 Kings 8:38</a> <span class="ital">al.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>that thou mayest know</span>, &c.] cf. <a href="/exodus/8-10.htm" title="And he said, To morrow. And he said, Be it according to your word: that you may know that there is none like to the LORD our God.">Exodus 8:10</a>, with the note.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/exodus/9.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 29.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">As soon as I am gone out of the city</span>. "The city" is probably Tanis (Zoan). We may gather from the expression of this verse, and again of verse 33, that Moses and Aaron did not live in the city, but in the country with the other Israelites. When it was necessary for them to have an interview with the king, they sought the city: when their interview was over they quitted it. To obtain for Pharaoh a speedy accomplishment of his wish, Moses undertakes to pray for the removal of the plague as soon as he is outside the city walls. <span class="cmt_word">That thou mayest know that the earth is the Lord's</span>. The phrase used is ambiguous. It may mean either "that the <span class="accented">earth</span> is Jehovah's," or "that the land (of Egypt) is his." On the whole, perhaps the former rendering is the best. The other plagues sufficiently showed that Egypt was Jehovah's; this, which came from the open heaven that surrounds and embraces the whole world, indicated that the entire earth was his. (Comp. <a href="/psalms/24-1.htm">Psalm 24:1</a>: "The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof: the world, and they that dwell therein.") Exodus 9:29<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/exodus/9.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>Moses promised that his request should be granted, that he might know "that the land belonged to Jehovah," i.e., that Jehovah ruled as Lord over Egypt (cf. <a href="/exodus/8-18.htm">Exodus 8:18</a>); at the same time he told him that the fear manifested by himself and his servants was no true fear of God. יי מפּני ירא denotes the true fear of God, which includes a voluntary subjection to the divine will. 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