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and he hardened his heart, he and his servants.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/exodus/9.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had stopped, he sinned again and hardened his heart, he and his servants.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/exodus/9.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, he sinned again and hardened his heart, he and his servants.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/exodus/9.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, he sinned again and hardened his heart, he and his servants.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/exodus/9.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />But Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased. So he sinned again and hardened his heart with firmness, he and his servants.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/exodus/9.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, he sinned again and hardened his heart, both he and his servants.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/exodus/9.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />When Pharaoh saw that the rain, hail, and thunder had ceased, he sinned again and hardened his heart, he and his officials.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/exodus/9.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />When Pharaoh saw that the rain, hail, and thunder had ceased, he sinned again and hardened his heart, he and his officials. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/exodus/9.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/exodus/9.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />When the king realized that the storm was over, he disobeyed once more. He and his officials were so stubborn <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/exodus/9.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/exodus/9.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />When Pharaoh saw that the rain, the hail, and the thunder had stopped, he sinned again. He and his officials continued to be stubborn.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/exodus/9.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />When the king saw what had happened, he sinned again. He and his officials remained as stubborn as ever <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/exodus/9.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />When Pharaoh saw that the rain, hail, and thunder had stopped, he continued to sin. He, along with his officials, hardened his heart. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/exodus/9.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />When Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail and thunder had ceased, he sinned again and hardened his heart?he and his officials.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/exodus/9.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />When Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail and thunder ceased, he sinned again: both he and his servants hardened their hearts.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/exodus/9.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />When Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/exodus/9.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders had ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/exodus/9.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />When Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders had ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/exodus/9.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />and Pharaoh sees that the rain has ceased, and the hail and the voices, and he continues to sin, and hardens his heart, he and his servants;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/exodus/9.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> and Pharaoh seeth that the rain hath ceased, and the hail and the voices, and he continueth to sin, and hardeneth his heart, he and his servants;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/exodus/9.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And Pharaoh will see that the rain ceased, and the hail and the voices; and he will add to sin, and he will make his heart heavy, he and his servants.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/exodus/9.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And Pharao seeing that the rain and the hail, and the thunders were ceased, increased his sin. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/exodus/9.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />Then Pharaoh, seeing that the rain, and the hail, and the thunders had ceased, added to his sin.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/exodus/9.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />But Pharaoh, seeing that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, sinned again and became obstinate, both he and his servants.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/exodus/9.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, he sinned once more and hardened his heart, he and his officials.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/exodus/9.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders had ceased, he sinned yet more, and his heart was hardened, and the heart of his servants.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/exodus/9.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail and the noise departed, and he continued to sin, and the heart of Pharaoh and of his Servants was hardened.<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/exodus/9.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/exodus/9.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And when Pharao saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders ceased, he continued to sin; and <i>he</i> hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/exodus/9-34.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kVae3PiKqhs?start=2256" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/exodus/9.htm">The Seventh Plague: Hail</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">33</span>Then Moses departed from Pharaoh, went out of the city, and spread out his hands to the LORD. The thunder and hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured down on the land. <span class="reftext">34</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/6547.htm" title="6547: par·‘ōh (N-proper-ms) -- A title of Eg. kings. Of Egyptian derivation; Paroh, a general title of Egyptian kings.">When Pharaoh</a> <a href="/hebrew/7200.htm" title="7200: way·yar (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To see. A primitive root; to see, literally or figuratively.">saw</a> <a href="/hebrew/3588.htm" title="3588: kî- (Conj) -- That, for, when. ">that</a> <a href="/hebrew/4306.htm" title="4306: ham·mā·ṭār (Art:: N-ms) -- Rain. From matar; rain.">the rain</a> <a href="/hebrew/1259.htm" title="1259: wə·hab·bā·rāḏ (Conj-w, Art:: N-ms) -- Hail. From barad; hail -hail).">and hail</a> <a href="/hebrew/6963.htm" title="6963: wə·haq·qō·lōṯ (Conj-w, Art:: N-mp) -- Sound, voice. Or qol; from an unused root meaning to call aloud; a voice or sound.">and thunder</a> <a href="/hebrew/2308.htm" title="2308: ḥā·ḏal (V-Qal-Perf-3ms) -- To cease. A primitive root; properly, to be flabby, i.e. desist; be lacking or idle.">had ceased,</a> <a href="/hebrew/2398.htm" title="2398: la·ḥă·ṭō (Prep-l:: V-Qal-Inf) -- A primitive root; properly, to miss; hence to sin; by inference, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, lead astray, condemn.">he sinned</a> <a href="/hebrew/3254.htm" title="3254: way·yō·sep̄ (Conj-w:: V-Hifil-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To add. A primitive root; to add or augment.">again</a> <a href="/hebrew/3513.htm" title="3513: way·yaḵ·bêḏ (Conj-w:: V-Hifil-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- Or kabed; a primitive root; to be heavy, i.e. In a bad sense or in a good sense (in the same two senses).">and hardened</a> <a href="/hebrew/3820.htm" title="3820: lib·bōw (N-msc:: 3ms) -- A form of lebab; the heart; also used very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything.">his heart—</a> <a href="/hebrew/1931.htm" title="1931: hū (Pro-3ms) -- He, she, it. ">he</a> <a href="/hebrew/5650.htm" title="5650: wa·‘ă·ḇā·ḏāw (Conj-w:: N-mpc:: 3ms) -- Slave, servant. From abad; a servant.">and his officials.</a> </span><span class="reftext">35</span>So Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not let the Israelites go, just as the LORD had said through Moses.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/2-5.htm">Romans 2:5</a></span><br />But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/3-13.htm">Hebrews 3:13</a></span><br />But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_samuel/6-6.htm">1 Samuel 6:6</a></span><br />Why harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened theirs? When He afflicted them, did they not send the people out so they could go on their way?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/5-3.htm">Jeremiah 5:3</a></span><br />O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/26-10.htm">Isaiah 26:10</a></span><br />Though grace is shown to the wicked man, he does not learn righteousness. In the land of righteousness he acts unjustly and fails to see the majesty of the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/proverbs/29-1.htm">Proverbs 29:1</a></span><br />A man who remains stiff-necked after much reproof will suddenly be shattered beyond recovery.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-13.htm">2 Chronicles 36:13</a></span><br />He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. But Zedekiah stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD, the God of Israel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/3-7.htm">Ezekiel 3:7</a></span><br />But the house of Israel will be unwilling to listen to you, since they are unwilling to listen to Me. For the whole house of Israel is hard-headed and hard-hearted.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/mark/3-5.htm">Mark 3:5</a></span><br />Jesus looked around at them with anger and sorrow at their hardness of heart. Then He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out, and it was restored.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/16-9.htm">Revelation 16:9</a></span><br />And the people were scorched by intense heat, and they cursed the name of God, who had authority over these plagues. Yet they did not repent and give Him glory.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/95-8.htm">Psalm 95:8</a></span><br />do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_timothy/3-8.htm">2 Timothy 3:8</a></span><br />Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth. They are depraved in mind and disqualified from the faith.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/acts/7-51.htm">Acts 7:51</a></span><br />You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/zechariah/7-12.htm">Zechariah 7:12</a></span><br />They made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of Hosts.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/13-15.htm">Matthew 13:15</a></span><br />For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.</p><p class="hdg">saw</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/8-15.htm">Exodus 8:15</a></b></br> But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ecclesiastes/8-11.htm">Ecclesiastes 8:11</a></b></br> Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.</p><p class="hdg">and hardened</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/4-21.htm">Exodus 4:21</a></b></br> And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/7-14.htm">Exodus 7:14</a></b></br> And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart <i>is</i> hardened, he refuseth to let the people go.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_chronicles/28-22.htm">2 Chronicles 28:22</a></b></br> And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD: this <i>is that</i> king Ahaz.</p><p class="hdg">and the Lord</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/4-21.htm">Exodus 4:21</a></b></br> And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/7-3.htm">Exodus 7:3,4</a></b></br> And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/11-9.htm">Exodus 11:9,10</a></b></br> And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt… </p><p class="hdg">by Moses.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/4-13.htm">Exodus 4:13</a></b></br> And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand <i>of him whom</i> thou wilt send.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/exodus/9-30.htm">Bondmen</a> <a href="/exodus/9-33.htm">Ceased</a> <a href="/james/1-25.htm">Continueth</a> <a href="/genesis/47-18.htm">Ended</a> <a href="/exodus/9-33.htm">Hail</a> <a href="/exodus/9-12.htm">Hardened</a> <a href="/exodus/8-32.htm">Hardeneth</a> <a href="/exodus/9-21.htm">Heart</a> <a href="/exodus/9-30.htm">Hearts</a> <a href="/exodus/9-33.htm">Ice-Storm</a> <a href="/exodus/9-30.htm">Officials</a> <a href="/exodus/9-33.htm">Pharaoh</a> <a href="/exodus/9-33.htm">Rain</a> <a href="/exodus/9-30.htm">Servants</a> <a href="/genesis/50-17.htm">Sin</a> <a href="/exodus/9-27.htm">Sinned</a> <a href="/genesis/39-9.htm">Sinning</a> <a href="/exodus/9-33.htm">Stopped</a> <a href="/exodus/9-33.htm">Thunder</a> <a href="/exodus/9-33.htm">Thunders</a> <a href="/exodus/9-33.htm">Voices</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/exodus/11-3.htm">Bondmen</a> <a href="/exodus/31-17.htm">Ceased</a> <a href="/job/14-2.htm">Continueth</a> <a href="/exodus/31-18.htm">Ended</a> <a href="/exodus/10-5.htm">Hail</a> <a href="/exodus/9-35.htm">Hardened</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/36-13.htm">Hardeneth</a> <a href="/exodus/9-35.htm">Heart</a> <a href="/exodus/10-1.htm">Hearts</a> <a href="/exodus/10-5.htm">Ice-Storm</a> <a href="/exodus/10-1.htm">Officials</a> <a href="/exodus/9-35.htm">Pharaoh</a> <a href="/exodus/16-4.htm">Rain</a> <a href="/exodus/10-1.htm">Servants</a> <a href="/exodus/10-17.htm">Sin</a> <a href="/exodus/10-16.htm">Sinned</a> <a href="/exodus/20-20.htm">Sinning</a> <a href="/leviticus/13-37.htm">Stopped</a> <a href="/exodus/19-16.htm">Thunder</a> <a href="/exodus/19-16.htm">Thunders</a> <a href="/exodus/20-18.htm">Voices</a><div class="vheading2">Exodus 9</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/exodus/9-1.htm">The plague on livestock</a></span><br><span class="reftext">8. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/exodus/9-8.htm">The plague of boils</a></span><br><span class="reftext">13. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/exodus/9-13.htm">The message of Moses about the hail,</a></span><br><span class="reftext">22. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/exodus/9-22.htm">The plague of hail</a></span><br><span class="reftext">27. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/exodus/9-27.htm">Pharaoh pleads with Moses, but yet is hardened</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The cessation of the storm signifies a temporary reprieve from God's judgment. In the ancient Near East, weather phenomena were often seen as manifestations of divine power. The Egyptians worshiped gods like Seth, who was associated with storms, but the plagues demonstrated the LORD's supremacy over these deities. The cessation of the storm might have led Pharaoh to believe that the threat was over, revealing a common human tendency to forget divine intervention once immediate danger passes.<p><b>he sinned again</b><br>Pharaoh's sin here is his refusal to let the Israelites go, despite his previous promises. This reflects a pattern of disobedience and rebellion against God's commands. In biblical terms, sin is often described as missing the mark or failing to live up to God's standards. Pharaoh's repeated sinning highlights the hardness of his heart and his resistance to God's will. This pattern is reminiscent of the cycle of sin and repentance seen throughout the Old Testament, particularly in the book of Judges.<p><b>and hardened his heart—he and his officials</b><br>The hardening of Pharaoh's heart is a central theme in the Exodus narrative. It illustrates the tension between divine sovereignty and human responsibility. While God is said to harden Pharaoh's heart in some passages, here it is Pharaoh himself who hardens his heart, showing his culpability. This hardening is a deliberate choice to resist God's command, reflecting a spiritual blindness and stubbornness. The mention of his officials indicates that this was not just a personal decision but one that involved the leadership of Egypt, suggesting a collective resistance to God's will. This hardening can be seen as a type of the ultimate rejection of God, which is fulfilled in the New Testament by those who reject Christ, the true deliverer.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/p/pharaoh.htm">Pharaoh</a></b><br>The ruler of Egypt who repeatedly hardened his heart against God's commands delivered through Moses.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/m/moses.htm">Moses</a></b><br>The prophet and leader chosen by God to deliver the Israelites from Egyptian bondage.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/e/egypt.htm">Egypt</a></b><br>The land where the Israelites were enslaved and where God demonstrated His power through the plagues.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_plagues.htm">The Plagues</a></b><br>A series of divine judgments sent by God to compel Pharaoh to release the Israelites, with the hail being the seventh plague.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/o/officials_of_pharaoh.htm">Officials of Pharaoh</a></b><br>The advisors and leaders in Pharaoh's court who also participated in the hardening of their hearts.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_danger_of_a_hardened_heart.htm">The Danger of a Hardened Heart</a></b><br>Pharaoh's repeated hardening of his heart serves as a warning against resisting God's will and the consequences of persistent sin.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty_and_patience.htm">God's Sovereignty and Patience</a></b><br>Despite Pharaoh's obstinance, God patiently demonstrated His power and gave multiple opportunities for repentance.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_deceitfulness_of_sin.htm">The Deceitfulness of Sin</a></b><br>Sin can deceive and harden our hearts, leading us away from God's truth and grace.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_leaders.htm">The Role of Leaders</a></b><br>Pharaoh's officials also hardened their hearts, showing how leadership can influence others for good or ill.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/r/responding_to_god's_warnings.htm">Responding to God's Warnings</a></b><br>We must be attentive and responsive to God's warnings in our lives, unlike Pharaoh who ignored them.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_exodus_9.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Exodus 9</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_does_god_harden_hearts_yet_judge.htm">Exodus 7:3–4: How can a loving God harden a person’s heart and still hold them accountable? </a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_can_a_merciful_god_justify_this.htm">Psalm 136:10 refers to striking down Egypt's firstborn; how can a merciful God justify the death of innocent children?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/is_a_hailstorm_like_exodus_9_18-25_likely.htm">How plausible is a widespread hailstorm of the described magnitude in the region (Exodus 9:18-25)?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/if_god_hardened_pharaoh's_heart,_why_blame_him.htm">If Exodus 14:17 says God hardened Pharaoh's heart, how can Pharaoh be held responsible for his actions?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/exodus/9.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(34) <span class= "bld">Pharaoh . . . sinned yet more, and hardened his heart.</span>--As Pharaoh had never been so much moved previously, so it now required a greater effort of his will to "harden his heart" than it had ever done before; and thus he now "sinned yet more" than he had as yet sinned. It seems strange that the mercy of God should still have allowed him one other chance (<a href="/context/exodus/10-3.htm" title="And Moses and Aaron came in to Pharaoh, and said to him, Thus said the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.">Exodus 10:3-6</a>).<p><span class= "bld"><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/exodus/9.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 34.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">He sinned yet more, and hardened his heart</span>. Altogether there are three different Hebrew verbs, which our translators have rendered by "harden," or "hardened" - <span class="accented">kabad</span>, <span class="accented">qashah</span>, and <span class="accented">khazaq.</span> The first of these, which occurs in <a href="/exodus/7-14.htm">Exodus 7:14</a>; <a href="/exodus/8-15.htm">Exodus 8:15, 32</a>; <a href="/exodus/9-7.htm">Exodus 9:7</a> and 34, is the weakest of the three, and means to be "dull" or "heavy," rather than "to be hard." The second, which appears in <a href="/exodus/7-3.htm">Exodus 7:3</a>, and Exodus 13:15, is a stronger term, and means "to be hard," or, in the Hiphil, "to make hard." But the third has the most intensive sense, implying fixed and stubborn resolution. It occurs in <a href="/exodus/4-21.htm">Exodus 4:21</a>; <a href="/exodus/7-22.htm">Exodus 7:22</a>; <a href="/exodus/8-19.htm">Exodus 8:19</a>; <a href="/exodus/9-35.htm">Exodus 9:35</a>; and elsewhere. He and his servants. Pharaoh's "servants," <span class="accented">i.e.</span> the officers of his court, still, it would seem, upheld the king in his impious and mad course, either out of complaisance, or because they were really not yet convinced of the resistless might of Jehovah. After the eighth plague, we shall find their tone change (<a href="/exodus/10-7.htm">Exodus 10:7</a>). <span class="cmt_sub_title">Ver 35.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">As the Lord had spoken by Moses</span>. Compare <a href="/exodus/3-19.htm">Exodus 3:19</a>; <a href="/exodus/4-21.htm">Exodus 4:21</a>; and Exodus 7:3, 4 <p> <p> <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/exodus/9-34.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">When Pharaoh</span><br /><span class="heb">פַּרְעֹ֗ה</span> <span class="translit">(par·‘ōh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6547.htm">Strong's 6547: </a> </span><span class="str2">Pharaoh -- a title of Egypt kings</span><br /><br /><span class="word">saw</span><br /><span class="heb">וַיַּ֣רְא</span> <span class="translit">(way·yar)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7200.htm">Strong's 7200: </a> </span><span class="str2">To see</span><br /><br /><span class="word">that</span><br /><span class="heb">כִּֽי־</span> <span class="translit">(kî-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunction<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> </span><span class="str2">A relative conjunction</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the rain</span><br /><span class="heb">הַמָּטָ֧ר</span> <span class="translit">(ham·mā·ṭār)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4306.htm">Strong's 4306: </a> </span><span class="str2">Rain</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and hail</span><br /><span class="heb">וְהַבָּרָ֛ד</span> <span class="translit">(wə·hab·bā·rāḏ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1259.htm">Strong's 1259: </a> </span><span class="str2">Hail</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and thunder</span><br /><span class="heb">וְהַקֹּלֹ֖ת</span> <span class="translit">(wə·haq·qō·lōṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6963.htm">Strong's 6963: </a> </span><span class="str2">A voice, sound</span><br /><br /><span class="word">had ceased,</span><br /><span class="heb">חָדַ֨ל</span> <span class="translit">(ḥā·ḏal)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2308.htm">Strong's 2308: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be flabby, desist, be lacking, idle</span><br /><br /><span class="word">he sinned</span><br /><span class="heb">לַחֲטֹ֑א</span> <span class="translit">(la·ḥă·ṭō)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2398.htm">Strong's 2398: </a> </span><span class="str2">To miss, to sin, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, lead astray, condemn</span><br /><br /><span class="word">again</span><br /><span class="heb">וַיֹּ֣סֶף</span> <span class="translit">(way·yō·sep̄)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3254.htm">Strong's 3254: </a> </span><span class="str2">To add, augment</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and hardened</span><br /><span class="heb">וַיַּכְבֵּ֥ד</span> <span class="translit">(way·yaḵ·bêḏ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3513.htm">Strong's 3513: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be heavy, weighty, or burdensome</span><br /><br /><span class="word">his heart—</span><br /><span class="heb">לִבּ֖וֹ</span> <span class="translit">(lib·bōw)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3820.htm">Strong's 3820: </a> </span><span class="str2">The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre</span><br /><br /><span class="word">he</span><br /><span class="heb">ה֥וּא</span> <span class="translit">(hū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Pronoun - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1931.htm">Strong's 1931: </a> </span><span class="str2">He, self, the same, this, that, as, are</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and his officials.</span><br /><span class="heb">וַעֲבָדָֽיו׃</span> <span class="translit">(wa·‘ă·ḇā·ḏāw)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5650.htm">Strong's 5650: </a> </span><span class="str2">Slave, servant</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/exodus/9-34.htm">Exodus 9:34 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/exodus/9-34.htm">Exodus 9:34 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/exodus/9-34.htm">Exodus 9:34 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/exodus/9-34.htm">Exodus 9:34 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/exodus/9-34.htm">Exodus 9:34 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/exodus/9-34.htm">Exodus 9:34 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/exodus/9-34.htm">Exodus 9:34 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/exodus/9-34.htm">Exodus 9:34 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/exodus/9-34.htm">Exodus 9:34 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/exodus/9-34.htm">Exodus 9:34 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/exodus/9-34.htm">OT Law: Exodus 9:34 When Pharaoh saw that the rain (Exo. 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