出埃及记 9:22

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

雹災耶和華對摩西說：“你要向天伸杖，使埃及全地都有冰雹，落在人身上、在牲畜身上和埃及地田間所有的蔬菜上。”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
耶 和 华 对 摩 西 说 ： 你 向 天 伸 杖 ， 使 埃 及 遍 地 的 人 身 上 和 牲 畜 身 上 ， 并 田 间 各 样 菜 蔬 上 ， 都 有 冰 雹 。

Contextual Overview

²² The Lord told Moses, "Raise your hand toward the sky. Then the hail will start falling in all the land of Egypt. It will fall on people, animals, and on everything that grows in the fields of Egypt." ²³ When Moses raised his walking stick toward the sky, the Lord sent thunder and hail, and lightning flashed down to the earth. So he caused hail to fall upon the land of Egypt. ²⁴ There was hail, and lightning flashed as it hailed—the worst hailstorm in Egypt since it had become a nation. ²⁵ The hail destroyed all the people and animals that were in the fields in all the land of Egypt. It also destroyed everything that grew in the fields and broke all the trees in the fields. ²⁶ The only place it did not hail was in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites lived. ²⁷ The king sent for Moses and Aaron and told them, "This time I have sinned. The Lord is in the right, and I and my people are in the wrong. ²⁸ Pray to the Lord . We have had enough of God's thunder and hail. I will let you go; you do not have to stay here any longer." ²⁹ Moses told the king, "When I leave the city, I will raise my hands to the Lord in prayer, and the thunder and hail will stop. Then you will know that the earth belongs to the Lord . ³⁰ But I know that you and your officers do not yet fear the Lord God." ³¹ The flax was in bloom, and the barley had ripened, so these crops were destroyed.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 7:19, Exodus 8:5, Exodus 8:16, Revelation 16:21

Reciprocal: Exodus 9:18 - I will cause Exodus 10:21 - Stretch Joshua 10:11 - the Lord Ezekiel 38:22 - an overflowing

Cross-References

Genesis 9:12
And God said, "This is the sign of the agreement between me and you and every living creature that is with you.

Genesis 9:13
I am putting my rainbow in the clouds as the sign of the agreement between me and the earth.

Genesis 9:15
I will remember my agreement between me and you and every living thing. Floods will never again destroy all life on the earth.

Genesis 9:16
When the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and I will remember the agreement that continues forever between me and every living thing on the earth."

Genesis 9:19
These three men were Noah's sons, and all the people on earth came from these three sons.

Genesis 9:20
Noah became a farmer and planted a vineyard.

Genesis 9:21
When he drank wine made from his grapes, he became drunk and lay naked in his tent.

Genesis 9:25
he said, "May there be a curse on Canaan! May he be the lowest slave to his brothers."

Genesis 10:6
The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

1 Chronicles 1:8
Ham's sons were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord said unto Moses,.... When the morrow was come, the fifth day of the month Abib:

stretch forth thine hand toward heaven; with his rod in it, as appears from the next verse, to show that the following plague would come from the heaven, that is, the air, and from God, who dwells in the heaven of heavens:

that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt; not only in that spot, and near it, where Moses stood, and from that part of the heaven towards which he stretched forth his hand, but from the whole heaven all over the land of Egypt; which shows it to be an unusual and extraordinary hail, for a hail storm seldom reaches far, a mile it may be, or some such space; but never was such an one heard of as to reach through a whole country, and so large an one as Egypt:

upon man and upon beast; such as belonged to those who would take no warning, nor attend to the word of the Lord to fetch home their servants and cattle:

and upon every herb of the field throughout the land of Egypt; it should fall so thick, that scarce an herb would escape it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

With the plague of hail begins the last series of plagues, which differ from the former both in their severity and their effects. Each produced a temporary, but real, change in Pharaoh’s feelings.

Exodus 9:14

All my plagues - This applies to all the plagues which follow; the effect of each was foreseen and foretold. The words “at this time” point to a rapid and continuous succession of blows. The plagues which precede appear to have been spread over a considerable time; the first message of Moses was delivered after the early harvest of the year before, when the Israelites could gather stubble, i. e. in May and April: the second mission, when the plagues began, was probably toward the end of June, and they went on at intervals until the winter; this plague was in February; see Exodus 9:31.

Exodus 9:15

For now ... - Better, For now indeed, had I stretched forth my hand and smitten thee and thy people with the pestilence, then hadst thou been cut off from the earth. Exodus 9:16 gives the reason why God had not thus inflicted a summary punishment once for all.

Exodus 9:16

Have I raised thee up - See the margin. God kept Pharaoh “standing”, i. e. permitted him to live and hold out until His own purpose was accomplished.

Exodus 9:18

A very grievous hail - The miracle consisted in the magnitude of the infliction and in its immediate connection with the act of Moses.

Exodus 9:19

In Egypt the cattle are sent to pasture in the open country from January to April, when the grass is abundant. They are kept in stalls for the rest of the year.

Exodus 9:20

The word of the Lord - This gives the first indication that the warnings had a salutary effect upon the Egyptians.

Exodus 9:27

The Lord - Thus, for the first time, Pharaoh explicitly recognizes Yahweh as God (compare Exodus 5:2).

Exodus 9:29

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.

Exodus 9:31

The flax was bolled - i. e. in blossom. This marks the time. In the north of Egypt the barley ripens and flax blossoms about the middle of February, or at the latest early in March, and both are gathered in before April, when the wheat harvest begins. The cultivation of flax must have been of great importance; linen was preferred to any material, and exclusively used by the priests. It is frequently mentioned on Egyptian monuments.

Exodus 9:32

Rie - Rather, “spelt,” the common food of the ancient Egyptians, now called “doora” by the natives, and the only grain represented on the sculptures: the name, however, occurs on the monuments very frequently in combination with other species.