Exodus 9:15

Translations

Modern

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.

Traditional

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.

Literal

For now I could have stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with the pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth.

Latin

Nunc enim extendens manum percutiam te, et populum tuum peste, peribisque de terra.

Original

Hebrew

English

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.

Notes

Exodus 9:14–17

God explained the purpose of the plagues to Pharaoh. They were meant to show that no one is like God in the entire world (9:14; see also Isaiah 46:9; Jeremiah 10:6–7). God did not destroy Pharaoh and Egypt in one strike, even though he could have. Instead, he spared them (Exodus 9:16).

God gave them a chance to recognize his power. But Pharaoh refused to humble himself and continued to oppress the Lord's people (9:17).

Exodus 9:13–33

The seventh plague was a hailstorm (9:18). It rains in Egypt only a few days each year. Hail and thunderstorms are rare. This storm would have terrified them. This may explain the increased theological reflection associated with it. The plague destroyed the flax and barley crops (9:31).

Theme notes and profiles

Egypt Moses Pharaoh The Plagues

Events

Exodus from Egypt

Related verses

Exodus 3:20
So I will stretch out My hand and strike the Egyptians with all the wonders I will perform among them. And after that, he will release you.
1 Kings 13:34
And this was the sin of the house of Jeroboam that led to its extermination and destruction from the face of the earth.
Exodus 9:3
…then the hand of the LORD will bring a severe plague on your livestock in the field—on your horses, donkeys, camels, herds, and flocks.
Exodus 11:4–6
So Moses declared, “This is what the LORD says: ‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt,
Exodus 9:16
But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power to you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.
Exodus 9:6
And the next day the LORD did just that. All the livestock of the Egyptians died, but not one animal belonging to the Israelites died.
Proverbs 2:22
…but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.
Exodus 12:29–30
Now at midnight the LORD struck down every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon, as well as all the firstborn among the livestock.
Exodus 14:28
The waters flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen—the entire army of Pharaoh that had chased the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived.

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Topics

Afflictions and Adversities in Pharaoh and the Egyptians Judgments: Manifest the Righteous Character of God Miracles: Design of Power of God: The Hand of God Suffering: Vicarious The Afflictions of the Wicked: Pharaoh and the Egyptians The Power of God: Expressed by the Hand of God

Exodus 9:15

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