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the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Christian Standard Bible ®

Psalms 105:36

He struck all the firstborn in their land,all their first progeny.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Egyptians;   Thankfulness;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Confessions and Credos;   Salvation;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Firstborn;   Hallelujah;   Plagues of Egypt;   Psalms;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
He struck also all the firstborn in their land, The chief of all their strength.
King James Version
He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength.
English Standard Version
He struck down all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their strength.
New Century Version
The Lord also killed all the firstborn sons in the land, the oldest son of each family.
New English Translation
He struck down all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of their reproductive power.
Amplified Bible
He also struck down all the firstborn in their land, The first fruits and chief substance of all their strength.
New American Standard Bible
He also fatally struck all the firstborn in their land, The first fruits of all their vigor.
World English Bible
He struck also all the firstborn in their land, The chief of all their strength.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He smote also all the first borne in their land, euen the beginning of all their strength.
Legacy Standard Bible
He also struck down all the firstborn in their land,The first of all their vigor.
Berean Standard Bible
Then He struck all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their vigor.
Contemporary English Version
Then God took the life of every first-born son.
Complete Jewish Bible
He struck down all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their strength.
Darby Translation
And he smote every firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their vigour.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then the Lord killed every firstborn in their country. He killed their oldest sons.
George Lamsa Translation
He smote also all the first-born of Egypt, the first-born of all their boys.
Good News Translation
He killed the first-born sons of all the families of Egypt.
Lexham English Bible
And he struck down all the firstborn in their land, the first of all their virility.
Literal Translation
He also struck all the first-born in their land, the firstfruit of all their vigor.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He smote all ye first borne in their lode, euen the chefe of all their substaunce.
American Standard Version
He smote also all the first-born in their land, The chief of all their strength.
Bible in Basic English
He put to death the first child of every family in the land, the first-fruits of their strength.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He smote also all the first-born in their land, the first-fruits of all their strength.
King James Version (1611)
Hee smote also all the first borne in their land: the chiefe of all their strength.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He smote al the first borne in their land: euen the first fruites of all their concupiscence.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
He smote also every first-born of their land, the first-fruits of all their labour.
English Revised Version
He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he killide ech the firste gendrid thing in the lond of hem; the firste fruitis of alle the trauel of hem.
Update Bible Version
He smote also all the first-born in their land, The chief of all their strength.
Webster's Bible Translation
He smote also all the first-born in their land, the chief of all their strength.
New King James Version
He also destroyed all the firstborn in their land, The first of all their strength.
New Living Translation
Then he killed the oldest son in each Egyptian home, the pride and joy of each family.
New Life Bible
He killed all the first-born in their land, the first fruits of all their strength.
New Revised Standard
He struck down all the firstborn in their land, the first issue of all their strength.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then smote he every firstborn in their land, The beginning of all their strength;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(104-36) And he slew all the firstborn in their land: the firstfruits of all their labour.
Revised Standard Version
He smote all the first-born in their land, the first issue of all their strength.
Young's Literal Translation
And He smiteth every first-born in their land, The first-fruit of all their strength,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He also struck down all the firstborn in their land, The first fruits of all their vigor.

Contextual Overview

25whose hearts he turned to hate his peopleand to deal deceptively with his servants. 26He sent Moses his servant,and Aaron, whom he had chosen. 27They performed his miraculous signs among them,and wonders in the land of Ham. 28He sent darkness, and it became dark—for did they not defy his commands? 29He turned their water into bloodand caused their fish to die. 30Their land was overrun with frogs,even in their royal chambers. 31He spoke, and insects came—gnats throughout their country. 32He gave them hail for rain,and lightning throughout their land. 33He struck their vines and fig treesand shattered the trees of their territory. 34He spoke, and locusts came—young locusts without number.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

He smote: Psalms 78:51, Psalms 135:8, Psalms 136:10, Exodus 4:23, Exodus 11:4, Exodus 11:5, Exodus 12:12, Exodus 12:29, Exodus 12:30, Hebrews 11:28

chief: Genesis 49:3

Reciprocal: Exodus 18:1 - done Numbers 8:17 - on the day Numbers 33:4 - buried Deuteronomy 7:15 - will put none Deuteronomy 21:17 - the beginning Judges 2:1 - I made

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He smote also all the firstborn in their land,.... Both of men and beasts; the firstborn of the king on the throne, and of the maidservant behind the mill, and of the captive in the dungeon; this was the last plague, and which prevailed upon the Egyptians to let Israel go, Exodus 11:5.

The chief of all their strength; or the first of their strength; the same in different words as before, their firstborn; see Genesis 49:3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See an account of these plagues in Exo. 6–11. Compare Psalms 78:43-51. This is mostly a mere enumeration of the plagues in the order in which they occurred, but without, of course, the details of the circumstances attending them. There are no circumstances mentioned here which require particular explanation.


 
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