Exodus 9:28

28 "1Make supplication to the LORD, for there has been enough of God's thunder and hail; and 2I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer."

Exodus 9:28 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 9:28

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" F12; pray, and pray much, pray earnestly and without intermission until the plague ceases: 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: 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.


FOOTNOTES:

F12 (brw-yryteh) "orate multam", Rivet.
F13 (Myhla tlq) "voces Dei", Montanus, Drusius.

Exodus 9:28 In-Context

26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the sons of Israel were, there was no hail.
27 Then Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, "I have sinned this time; the LORD is the righteous one, and I and my people are the wicked ones.
28 "Make supplication to the LORD , for there has been enough of God's thunder and hail; and I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer."
29 Moses said to him, "As soon as I go out of the city, I will spread out my hands to the LORD ; the thunder will cease and there will be hail no longer, that you may know that the earth is the LORD'S.
30 "But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear the LORD God."

Cross References 2

  • 1. Exodus 8:8, 28; Exodus 10:17
  • 2. Exodus 8:25; Exodus 10:8, 24

Footnotes 1

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