In this chapter we have an account of three more of the plagues of Egypt. I. Murrain among the cattle, which was fatal to them, Ex. 9:1–7. II. Boils upon man and beast, Ex. 9:8–12. III. Hail, with thunder and lightning. 1. Warning is given of this plague, Ex. 9:13–21. 2.

Here is, I. Warning given of another plague, namely, the murrain of beasts. When Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, after he had seemed to relent under the former plague, then Moses is sent to tell him there is another coming, to try what that would do towards reviving the impressions of the former…

Observe here, concerning the plague of boils and blains, I. When they were not wrought upon by the death of their cattle, God sent a plague that seized their own bodies, and touched them to the quick. If less judgments do not do their work, God will send greater.

Here is, I. A general declaration of the wrath of God against Pharaoh for his obstinacy. Though God has hardened his heart , yet Moses must repeat his applications to him; God suspends his grace and yet demands obedience, to punish him for requiring bricks of the children of Israel when he denied…

The threatened plague of hail is here summoned by the powerful hand and rod of Moses , 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.