Exodus 9:4-7

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 9:1-7

Here is, I. Warning given of another plague, namely, the murrain of beasts. When Pharaoh's heart was hardened, after he had seemed to relent under the former plague, then Moses is sent to tell him there is another coming, to try what that would do towards reviving the impressions of the former plagues. Thus is the wrath of God revealed from heaven, both in his word and in his works, against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men. 1. Moses puts Pharaoh in a very fair way to prevent it: Let... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 9:4

And the Lord shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt ,.... Make such a difference and distinction between them, that the murrain should not be on the one, when it was on the other, and which was a very marvellous thing; and especially in the land of Goshen, where the Egyptians had much cattle, and Pharaoh himself, see Genesis 47:6 and yet, though the cattle of Israel breathed in the same air, drank of the same water, and fed in the same pastures, they had not the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 9:5

And the Lord appointed a set time ,.... For the coming of this plague, that it might plainly appear it came from him, and was not owing to any natural cause: saying, tomorrow the Lord shall do this thing in the land ; thus giving him time and space, as he had often done before, to consider the matter well, repent of his obstinacy, and dismiss the people of Israel, and so prevent the plague coming upon the cattle, as threatened. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 9:6

And the Lord did that thing on the morrow ,.... Brought a murrain, or a pestilential disease on the cattle. This, according to Bishop Usher, was on the second day of the seventh month, which afterwards became the first month, the month Abib, which answers to part of March and part of April, and seems to be about the seventeenth of March: and all the cattle of Egypt died ; not all absolutely, for we read of some afterwards, Exodus 9:9 but all that were in the field, Exodus 9:3 and it... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 9:7

And Pharaoh sent ,.... Messengers to the land of Goshen, to see whether the murrain was upon the cattle of Israel or not, and whether any of them died or not. The Targum of Jonathan is,"he sent to Pelusium to see" and inquire about this matter ; that is, to Raamses, for so that paraphrase calls Raamses in Exodus 1:11 a city built by the Israelites, and where many of them might dwell. This Pharaoh did, not merely out of curiosity, but to know whether the divine prediction was... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 9:4

The Lord shall sever - See Clarke on Exodus 8:22 ; (note). read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 9:5

To-morrow the Lord shall do this - By thus foretelling the evil, he showed his prescience and power; and from this both the Egyptians and Hebrews must see that the mortality that ensued was no casualty, but the effect of a predetermined purpose in the Divine justice. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 9:6

All the cattle of Egypt died - That is, All the cattle that did die belonged to the Egyptians, but not one died that belonged to the Israelites, Exodus 9:4 , Exodus 9:6 . That the whole stock of cattle belonging to the Egyptians did not die we have the fullest proof, because there were cattle both to be killed and saved alive in the ensuing plague, Exodus 9:19-25 . By this judgment the Egyptians must see the vanity of the whole of their national worship, when they found the animals... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 9:7

And Pharaoh sent, etc. - Finding so many of his own cattle and those of his subjects slain, he sent to see whether the mortality had reached to the cattle of the Israelites, that he might know whether this were a judgment inflicted by their God, and probably designing to replace the lost cattle of the Egyptians with those of the Israelites. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 9:7

Verse 7 7.And Pharaoh sent. I leave it undecided, whether he then first sent these inspectors; (104) it may be, that, in the blindness of his obstinacy he neglected this, until he was reminded by Moses; for we know how the reprobate shut their eyes against the manifest marks of God’s wrath, and willfully indulge in their errors. Certainly there is no doubt that Pharaoh, whilst he seeks to harden himself in every way, deliberately passed over what it was very useful for him to know; but, since... read more

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