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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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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
On Exodus 9:29
19th Century
Bishop
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…
John Calvin
On Exodus 9:29
16th Century
Theologian
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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John Gill
On Exodus 9:29
17th Century
Pastor
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…
Matthew Henry
On Exodus 9:22–35
17th Century
Minister
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…