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Exodus 9:15

For by now I could have put out My hand and hit you and your people with much trouble and great suffering. You would then have been destroyed from the earth.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Miracles;   Power;   Suffering;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Afflictions of the Wicked, the;   Judgments;   Power of God, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Plague;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Exodus, Book of;   Pestilence;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Exodus;   Leviticus;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Cattle;   Egypt;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Plagues of egypt;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Plagues, the Ten,;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Plagues of Egypt;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Exodus, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Pestilence;   Plagues of Egypt;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hail;   Plague;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
For now I would have put forth my hand, and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the eretz;
King James Version
For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.
Lexham English Bible
For now I could have stretched out my hand, and I could have struck you and your people with the plague, and you would have perished from the earth.
New Century Version
By now I could have used my power and caused a terrible disease that would have destroyed you and your people from the earth.
New English Translation
For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with plague, and you would have been destroyed from the earth.
Amplified Bible
"For by now I could have put out My hand and struck you and your people with a pestilence, and you would then have been cut off (obliterated) from the earth.
New American Standard Bible
"For had I now put out My hand and struck you and your people with plague, you would then have been eliminated from the earth.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For nowe I will stretch out mine hande, that I may smite thee and thy people with the pestilence: and thou shalt perish from the earth.
Legacy Standard Bible
For if by now I had sent forth My hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, you would then have been wiped out from the earth.
Contemporary English Version
In fact, he could already have sent a terrible disease and wiped you from the face of the earth.
Complete Jewish Bible
By now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with such severe plagues that you would have been wiped off the earth.
Darby Translation
For now shall I put forth my hand, and I will smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.
Easy-to-Read Version
I could use my power and cause a disease that would wipe you and your people off the earth.
English Standard Version
For by now I could have put out my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth.
George Lamsa Translation
For now I will stretch out my hand that I may strike you and your people with pestilence; and you shall perish from the earth.
Good News Translation
If I had raised my hand to strike you and your people with disease, you would have been completely destroyed.
Christian Standard Bible®
By now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with a plague, and you would have been obliterated from the earth.
Literal Translation
For now I have sent forth My hand and have stricken you and your people with pestilence, and you have been destroyed from the earth.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For I will now stretch out my hande, & smyte the & thy people wt pestilence, so yt thou shalt be roted out from the earth.
American Standard Version
For now I had put forth my hand, and smitten thee and thy people with pestilence, and thou hadst been cut off from the earth:
Bible in Basic English
For if I had put the full weight of my hand on you and your people, you would have been cut off from the earth:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smyte thee and thy people with pestilence, and thou shalt peryshe from the earth.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Surely now I had put forth My hand, and smitten thee and thy people with pestilence, and thou hadst been cut off from the earth.
King James Version (1611)
For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people, with pestilence, and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For now I will stretch forth my hand and smite thee and kill thy people, and thou shalt be consumed from off the earth.
English Revised Version
For now I had put forth my hand, and smitten thee and thy people with pestilence, and thou hadst been cut off from the earth:
Berean Standard Bible
For by this time I could have stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with a plague to wipe you off the earth.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For now Y schal holde forth the hond, and Y schal smyte thee and thi puple with pestilence, and thou schalt perische fro erthe;
Young's Literal Translation
for now I have put forth My hand, and I smite thee, and thy people, with pestilence, and thou art hidden from the earth.
Update Bible Version
For now I have put forth my hand, and have smitten you and your people with pestilence, and you have been cut off from the earth:
Webster's Bible Translation
For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.
World English Bible
For now I would have put forth my hand, and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth;
New King James Version
Now if I had stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, then you would have been cut off from the earth.
New Living Translation
By now I could have lifted my hand and struck you and your people with a plague to wipe you off the face of the earth.
New Revised Standard
For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For now, might I have put forth my hand, and smitten thee and thy people with pestilence, - and thou shoulder have secretly disappeared from the earth;
Douay-Rheims Bible
For now I will stretch out my hand to strike thee, and thy people, with pestilence, and thou shalt perish from the earth.
Revised Standard Version
For by now I could have put forth my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For if by now I had put forth My hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, you would then have been cut off from the earth.

Contextual Overview

13 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Get up early in the morning and stand in front of Pharaoh and say to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says this: "Let My people go, so they may worship Me. 14 For this time I will send all My troubles on you and your servants and your people. So you may know that there is no one like Me in all the earth. 15 For by now I could have put out My hand and hit you and your people with much trouble and great suffering. You would then have been destroyed from the earth. 16 But I have let you live so you could see My power and so My name may be honored through all the earth. 17 But you still use your power against My people by not letting them go. 18 About this time tomorrow I will send a very heavy hail such as has never been seen in Egypt from the day it began until now. 19 Have your cattle and whatever you have in the field brought to a safe place. For the hail will come down upon every man and animal that is in the field and is not brought home. And they will die."'" 20 Any of the people of Egypt who feared the word of the Lord made his servants and animals run to the houses. 21 But he who did not listen to the word of the Lord left his servants and animals in the field.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

stretch: Exodus 9:3, Exodus 9:6, Exodus 9:16, Exodus 3:20

that: Exodus 11:4-6, Exodus 12:29, Exodus 12:30

cut off: Exodus 14:28, 1 Kings 13:34, Proverbs 2:22

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 4:11 - from 1 Kings 8:42 - thy strong hand 2 Kings 17:36 - a stretched 2 Kings 19:19 - O Lord Isaiah 37:20 - that all Jeremiah 21:5 - with an

Cross-References

Genesis 9:8
Then God said to Noah and his sons,
Genesis 9:10
and with every living thing that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every animal of the earth, of all that came out of the large boat, every living thing on earth.
Exodus 28:12
Put the two stones on the shoulder pieces of the linen vest, as stones for the family groups of Israel to be remembered. Aaron will carry their names on his two shoulders before the Lord, to be remembered.
Deuteronomy 7:9
Know then that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God. He keeps His promise and shows His loving-kindness to those who love Him and keep His Laws, even to a thousand family groups in the future.
1 Kings 8:23
He said, "O Lord, God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or on earth below. You are keeping Your agreement and are showing loving-kindness to Your servants who walk in Your ways with all their heart.
Nehemiah 9:32
"So now, our God, the great and powerful God, honored with fear, Who keeps His agreement and loving-kindness, do not let all this trouble look small in Your eyes which has come upon us, our kings, our princes, our religious leaders, our men who tell what will happen, our fathers, and on all Your people since the days of the kings of Assyria to this day.
Psalms 106:45
He remembered His agreement because of them, and took pity on them by the greatness of His loving-kindness.
Jeremiah 14:21
For the good of Your name do not hate us. Do not put to shame the throne of Your shining-greatness. Remember and do not break Your agreement with us.
Ezekiel 16:60
"But I will remember My agreement which I made with you when you were young. And I will make an agreement with you that lasts forever.
Luke 1:72
He would show loving-kindness to our early fathers. He would remember His holy promise.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For now will I stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence,.... Which yet we never find was done; for though this by many is referred to the slaying of the firstborn, yet it is not certain that this was done by the pestilence: besides, Pharaoh was not then smitten, nor his people, only their firstborn; wherefore these words are to be rendered, not in the future, but in the imperfect or preterpluperfect tense, thus; "for when now I stretched out my hand, or if now I had stretched out my hand to smite thee and thy people with pestilence" a; that is, at the time when he smote the cattle with the murrain or pestilence, when he could as well have smote him and his people with it; there was no want of power in God to do it, and had he done it, it would have been all over with him and them:

and thou shall be cut off from the earth; or "thou hadst been, or wouldest have been cut off from the earth" b must have perished out of it, and been no more in the land of the living.

a כי עתה שלחתי "modo enim cum extendi", Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Drusius, "vel si extendissem", Fagius, Cocceius so Jarchi, Gersom, Targ. Onk. & Jon. b ותכחד "sic fuisses excisus", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Drusius, Cocceius.

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 9:15. For now I will stretch out my hand — In the Hebrew the verbs are in the past tense, and not in the future, as our translation improperly expresses them, by which means a contradiction appears in the text: for neither Pharaoh nor his people were smitten by a pestilence, nor was he by any kind of mortality cut off from the earth. It is true the first-born were slain by a destroying angel, and Pharaoh himself was drowned in the Red Sea; but these judgments do not appear to be referred to in this place. If the words be translated, as they ought, in the subjunctive mood, or in the past instead of the future, this seeming contradiction to facts, as well as all ambiguity, will be avoided: For if now I HAD STRETCHED OUT (שלהתי shalachti, had set forth) my hand, and had smitten thee (ואך אותך vaach otheca) and thy people with the pestilence, thou SHOULDST HAVE BEEN cut off (תכחד ticcached) from the earth.


 
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