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and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer.</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><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 Lord - Thus, for the first time, Pharaoh explicitly recognizes Yahweh as God (compare <a href="/exodus/5-2.htm">Exodus 5:2</a>).<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">and</span> let it be <span class="ital">enough</span>, (let God content himself that he hath punished me so long, and that I have confessed my sin, and promised amendment,) <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">that there may be</span> hereafter <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">no more.</span> <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>Entreat the Lord, for it is enough,.... Hail, thunder, and lightning enough; or pray that this may be enough, and thought sufficient, and that there may be no more; or "entreat the Lord, and much" (l); pray, and pray much, pray earnestly and without intermission until the plague ceases: <p>that there be no more mighty thunderings and hail; or "voices of God" (m); for thunder is the voice of God, and these thunderings or voices were very loud, the claps were very terrible to hear, and the hail was very grievous and heavy, and the whole was very amazing and frightful, and the more to Pharaoh, who perhaps had never heard the voice of thunder, or seen an hail storm before, even a common one, these being rare in the land of Egypt: <p>and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer; go the three days' journey into the wilderness, directly and immediately; he would not put it off, on any account, and much less refuse to let them go at all, as he had often done. <p>(l) "orate multam", Rivet. (m) "voces Dei", Montanus, Drusius. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/exodus/9.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">Entreat 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.</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">28</span>. <span class="ital">Intreat</span>] <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>; <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>, <a href="/exodus/10-17.htm" title="Now therefore forgive, I pray you, my sin only this once, and entreat the LORD your God, that he may take away from me this death only.">Exodus 10:17</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">mighty thunderings</span>] Heb. <span class="ital">voices</span> (<span class="ital">v.</span> 23) <span class="ital">of God</span>. The addition, ‘of God,’ does sometimes imply worthy to belong to God, i.e. mighty or noble (<a href="/genesis/23-6.htm" title="Hear us, my lord: you are a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchers bury your dead; none of us shall withhold from you his sepulcher, but that you may bury your dead.">Genesis 23:6</a>, <a href="/numbers/24-6.htm" title="As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD has planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.">Numbers 24:6</a>, <a href="/psalms/36-6.htm" title="Your righteousness is like the great mountains; your judgments are a great deep: O LORD, you preserve man and beast.">Psalm 36:6</a>; <a href="/psalms/68-15.htm" title="The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill as the hill of Bashan.">Psalm 68:15</a> RV., <a href="/psalms/80-10.htm" title="The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.">Psalm 80:10</a>; <a href="/psalms/104-16.htm" title="The trees of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted;">Psalm 104:16</a>); but, in view of the idiom explained on <span class="ital">v.</span> 23a, it is doubtful whether that is the case here.<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 28.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Mighty thunderings</span>. 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. Exodus 9:28<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>The expressions, "every herb," and "every tree," are not to be taken absolutely, just as in <a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/9-6.htm">Exodus 9:6</a>, as we may see from <a href="/exodus/10-5.htm">Exodus 10:5</a>. Storms are not common in Lower or Middle Egypt, but they occur most frequently between the months of December and April; and hail sometimes accompanies them, though not with great severity. In themselves, therefore, thunder, lightning, and hail were not unheard of. They also came at the time of year when they usually occur, namely, when the cattle were in the field, i.e., between January and April, the only period in which cattle are turned out for pasture (for proofs, see Hengstenberg, Egypt and the Books of Moses). The supernatural character of this plague was manifested, not only in its being predicted by Moses, and in the exemption of the land of Goshen, but more especially in the terrible fury of the hail-storm, which made a stronger impression upon Pharaoh than all the previous plagues. For he sent for Moses and Aaron, and confessed to them, "I have sinned this time: Jehovah is righteous; I and my people are the sinners" (<a href="/exodus/9-27.htm">Exodus 9:27</a>.). But the very limitation "this time" showed that his repentance did not go very deep, and that his confession was far more the effect of terror caused by the majesty of God, which was manifested in the fearful thunder and lightning, than a genuine acknowledgment of his guilt. This is apparent also from the words which follow: "Pray to Jehovah for me, and let it be enough (רב satis, as in <a href="/genesis/45-28.htm">Genesis 45:28</a>) of the being (מהית) of the voices of God and of the hail;" i.e., there has been enough thunder and hail, they may cease now. <div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/exodus/9-28.htm">Exodus 9:28 Interlinear</a><br /><a href="/texts/exodus/9-28.htm">Exodus 9:28 Parallel Texts</a><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/niv/exodus/9-28.htm">Exodus 9:28 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/exodus/9-28.htm">Exodus 9:28 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/exodus/9-28.htm">Exodus 9:28 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/exodus/9-28.htm">Exodus 9:28 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/exodus/9-28.htm">Exodus 9:28 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="http://bibleapps.com/exodus/9-28.htm">Exodus 9:28 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="/exodus/9-28.htm">Exodus 9:28 Parallel</a><br /><a href="http://bibliaparalela.com/exodus/9-28.htm">Exodus 9:28 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="http://holybible.com.cn/exodus/9-28.htm">Exodus 9:28 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="http://saintebible.com/exodus/9-28.htm">Exodus 9:28 French Bible</a><br /><a href="http://bibeltext.com/exodus/9-28.htm">Exodus 9:28 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br /></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td align="center"><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'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><br /> </div> <div id="left"><a href="../exodus/9-27.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Exodus 9:27"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Exodus 9:27" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../exodus/9-29.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Exodus 9:29"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Exodus 9:29" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div> <div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>