Exodus 9:24
in Exodus 9The hail fell and the lightning continued flashing through it. The hail was so severe that nothing like it had ever been seen in all the land of Egypt from the time it became a nation.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
KJV
So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
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This verse in Exodus 9
Commentary
4 notes on this verseSo there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail,.... Which was a miracle within a miracle, as Aben Ezra observes; and very wonderful indeed it was, that the hail did not quench the fire, nor the fire melt the hail, as Philo the Jew (i) remarks: very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt, since it became a nation; See Gill on Exo 9:18. (i) De Vita. Mosis, l. 1. p. 620.
This site's exposition
there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail
on Exodus 9:24-26
Two measures of scale stand together, that there had been nothing like it in Egypt since it became a nation and that Goshen had none of it at all. This is the third division in three chapters, after the flies at 8:22 and the cattle at 9:4, and here the exemption is drawn on the map. Every herb of the field is smitten and every tree broken, which is what makes the locusts of the next chapter a second stroke on what the hail left, at 10:5 and 10:15.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
"Hail and fire fell" together; neither did the hail extinguish the fire, nor did the fire melt the hail. Rather, it burst into flames in the hail as in a thicket and turned [the hail] as red as iron in the fire, blazing in the …
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
Hail, and fire mingled with the hail - It is generally allowed that the electric fluid is essential to the formation of hail. On this occasion it was supplied in a supernatural abundance; for streams of fire seem to have accompanied the descending hail, so that herbs and trees, beasts and men, were all destroyed by them.
The words behind it
18 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיְהִ֣י | vayhi | and it was | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| בָרָ֔ד | varad | hail | H1259 → | 29 times |
| וְאֵ֕שׁ | veesh | and fire | H784 → | 378 times |
| מִתְלַקַּ֖חַת | mitlakachat | [was] flashing | H3947 → | 966 times |
| בְּת֣וֹךְ | betokh | in [the] middle of | H8432 → | 418 times |
| הַבָּרָ֑ד | habarad | the hail | H1259 → | 29 times |
| כָּבֵ֣ד | kaved | heavy | H3515 → | 41 times |
| מְאֹ֔ד | meod | very | H3966 → | 300 times |
| אֲ֠שֶׁר | ʾasher | which | H834 → | 5497 times |
| לֹֽא־ | lo'- | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| הָיָ֤ה | hayah | it had been | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| כָמֹ֙הוּ֙ | khamohu | like it | H3644 → | 143 times |
| בְּכָל־ | bekhol | in all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| אֶ֣רֶץ | ʾeretz | [the] land of | H776 → | 2504 times |
| מִצְרַ֔יִם | mitzrayim | Egypt | H4714 → | 641 times |
| מֵאָ֖ז | meaz | from then | H227 → | 141 times |
| הָיְתָ֥ה | hayetah | it had become | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| לְגֽוֹי׃ | legoy | <into> a nation | H1471 → | 561 times |
וַיְהִ֣יand it was
vayhiH1961 →3559 times
בָרָ֔דhail
varadH1259 →29 times
וְאֵ֕שׁand fire
veeshH784 →378 times
מִתְלַקַּ֖חַת[was] flashing
mitlakachatH3947 →966 times
בְּת֣וֹךְin [the] middle of
betokhH8432 →418 times
הַבָּרָ֑דthe hail
habaradH1259 →29 times
כָּבֵ֣דheavy
kavedH3515 →41 times
מְאֹ֔דvery
meodH3966 →300 times
אֲ֠שֶׁרwhich
ʾasherH834 →5497 times
לֹֽא־not
lo'-H3808 →5168 times
הָיָ֤הit had been
hayahH1961 →3559 times
כָמֹ֙הוּ֙like it
khamohuH3644 →143 times
בְּכָל־in all
bekholH3605 →5413 times
אֶ֣רֶץ[the] land of
ʾeretzH776 →2504 times
מִצְרַ֔יִםEgypt
mitzrayimH4714 →641 times
מֵאָ֖זfrom then
meazH227 →141 times
הָיְתָ֥הit had become
hayetahH1961 →3559 times
לְגֽוֹי׃<into> a nation
legoyH1471 →561 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Matthew 24:21For at that time there will be great tribulation, unmatched from the beginning of the world until now, and never to be seen again.
it leads to
- Joel 2:2
a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Daniel 12:1
“At that time Michael, the great prince who stands watch over your people, will rise up. There will be a time of distress, the likes of which will not have occurred from the beginning…
- Malachi 4:1
“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of…
- Zechariah 14:2–3
For I will gather all the nations for battle against Jerusalem, and the city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go into exile, but the…
- Joel 2:2
Through
Exodus 9:23So Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and lightning struck the earth. So the LORD rained down hail upon the land of Egypt.
it leads to
- Psalms 18:13
The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded— hailstones and coals of fire.
- Joshua 10:11
As they fled before Israel along the descent from Beth-horon to Azekah, the LORD cast down on them large hailstones from the sky, and more of them were killed by the hailstones than by…
- Isaiah 30:30
And the LORD will cause His majestic voice to be heard and His mighty arm to be revealed, striking in angry wrath with a flame of consuming fire, and with cloudburst, storm, and hailstones.
- Ezekiel 38:22
I will execute judgment upon him with plague and bloodshed. I will pour out torrents of rain, hailstones, fire, and sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him.
- Psalms 18:13
About Exodus
Who and where
1 name in this verse with a page on the site.
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Ephrem the Syrian, COMMENTARY ON EXODUS 9:3; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.