24So 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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For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned himself, and went out from Pharaoh.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-35)The threatened plague of hail is here summoned by the powerful hand and rod of Moses ( Exod. 9:22 , 23 ), and it obeys the summons, or rather the divine command; for fire and hail fulfil God’s word , Ps. 148:8. And here we are told, I. What desolations it made upon the earth. The thunder, and fire from heaven (or lightning), made it both the more dreadful and the more destroying, Exod. 9:23 , 24 .…
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