33And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands unto the LORD: and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured upon the earth.
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And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands unto the LORD; and the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest know how that the earth is the LORD'S.
And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh: and Moses cried unto the LORD because of the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh.
And he went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the LORD. …
Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. …
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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