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For now I would have put forth my hand, and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth;

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A Hypothetical Warning

Commentators overwhelmingly agree that this verse is a hypothetical statement. God is not saying He already struck Pharaoh down, but that He could have easily done so. The verse should be understood as, 'If I had stretched out my hand... you would have been cut off from the earth.'

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Exodus

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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

On Exodus 9:13–34

18th Century

Theologian

With the plague of hail begins the last series of plagues, which differ from the former both in their severity and their effects. Each produced a t…

Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott

On Exodus 9:13–19

19th Century

Bishop

THE SEVENTH PLAGUE.

The plagues fall into triads, or groups of three. This is the first plague of the third group, and pres…

John Gill

John Gill

On Exodus 9:15

17th Century

Pastor

For now will I stretch out my hand, that I may smite you and your people with pestilence

Which yet we never find w…

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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

On Exodus 9:13–21

17th Century

Minister

Moses is here ordered to deliver a dreadful message to Pharaoh. Providence ordained that Moses should have a man of such a fierce and stubborn spir…