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Moses said to him, "As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands to Yahweh. The thunders shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that you may know that the earth is Yahweh`s.
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The Earth is the Lord's
Commentators unanimously highlight this phrase as a direct challenge to the ancient belief in territorial gods. Pharaoh may have acknowledged Yahweh as a god, but this miracle was designed to teach a greater truth: Yahweh's authority is not limited to one people or place. He is the sovereign Lord over the entire earth, a foundational truth for all believers.
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Exodus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
19th Century
Anglican
That thou mayest know how that the earth is the Lord’s. —Compare to Exodus 9:15. It was the general belief of the Egyptia…
16th Century
Protestant
And Moses said. In this answer, Moses indirectly hints that he is leaving Pharaoh's presence to pray to God properly and purely, because P…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And Moses said to him, as soon as I am gone out of the city , &c.] Zoan or Tanis, for it was in the field of Zoan wh…
Woeful havoc this hail caused: it killed both men and cattle. The grain above ground was destroyed, and only that which had not yet come up was pre…
