Keluaran 7:4

7:4 Pharaoh will not listen to you. ¹  I will reach into ²  Egypt and bring out my regiments, ³  my people the Israelites, from the land of Egypt with great acts of judgment.

Keluaran 8:19

8:19 The magicians said ⁴  to Pharaoh, “It is the finger ⁵  of God!” But Pharaoh’s heart remained hard, ⁶  and he did not listen to them, just as the Lord had predicted.

Keluaran 8:1

8:1 (7:26) ⁷  Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and tell him, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Release my people in order that they may serve me!

1 Samuel 5:6-11

5:6 The Lord attacked ⁸  the residents of Ashdod severely, bringing devastation on them. He struck the people of ⁹  both Ashdod and the surrounding area with sores. ¹⁰  5:7 When the people ¹¹  of Ashdod saw what was happening, they said, “The ark of the God of Israel should not remain with us, for he has attacked ¹²  both us and our god Dagon!”

5:8 So they assembled ¹³  all the leaders of the Philistines and asked, “What should we do with the ark of the God of Israel?” They replied, “The ark of the God of Israel should be moved to Gath.” So they moved the ark of the God of Israel.

5:9 But after it had been moved the Lord attacked ¹⁴  that city as well, causing a great deal of panic. He struck all the people of that city ¹⁵  with sores. ¹⁶  5:10 So they sent the ark of God to Ekron.

But when the ark of God arrived at Ekron, the residents of Ekron cried out saying, “They have brought the ark of the God of Israel here ¹⁷  to kill our ¹⁸  people!” 5:11 So they assembled ¹⁹  all the leaders of the Philistines and said, “Get the ark of the God of Israel out of here! Let it go back to its own place so that it won’t kill us ²⁰  and our ²¹  people!” The terror ²²  of death was throughout the entire city; God was attacking them very severely there. ²³ 

1 Samuel 6:9

6:9 But keep an eye on it. If it should go up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has brought this great calamity on us. But if that is not the case, then we will know that it was not his hand that struck us; rather, it just happened to us by accident.”

Kisah Para Rasul 13:11

13:11 Now ²⁴  look, the hand of the Lord is against ²⁵  you, and you will be blind, unable to see the sun for a time!” Immediately mistiness ²⁶  and darkness came over ²⁷  him, and he went around seeking people ²⁸  to lead him by the hand.

[7:4]  ¹ tn Heb “and Pharaoh will not listen.”

[7:4]  ² tn Heb “put my hand into.” The expression is a strong anthropomorphism to depict God’s severest judgment on Egypt. The point is that neither the speeches of Moses and Aaron nor the signs that God would do will be effective. Consequently, God would deliver the blow that would destroy.

[7:4]  ³ tn See the note on this term in 6:26.

[8:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “and the magicians said.”

[8:19]  ⁵ tn The word “finger” is a bold anthropomorphism (a figure of speech in which God is described using human characteristics).

[8:19]  sn The point of the magicians’ words is clear enough. They knew they were beaten and by whom. The reason for their choice of the word “finger” has occasioned many theories, none of which is entirely satisfying. At the least their statement highlights that the plague was accomplished by God with majestic ease and effortlessness. Perhaps the reason that they could not do this was that it involved producing life – from the dust of the ground, as in Genesis 2:7. The creative power of God confounded the magic of the Egyptians and brought on them a loathsome plague.

[8:19]  ⁶ tn Heb “and the heart of Pharaoh became hard.” This phrase translates the Hebrew word חָזַק (khazaq; see S. R. Driver, Exodus, 53). In context this represents the continuation of a prior condition.

[8:1]  ⁷ sn Beginning with 8:1, the verse numbers through 8:32 in English Bibles differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 8:1 ET = 7:26 HT, 8:2 ET = 7:27 HT, 8:3 ET = 7:28 HT, 8:4 ET = 7:29 HT, 8:5 ET = 8:1 HT, etc., through 8:32 ET = 8:28 HT. Thus in English Bibles chapter 8 has 32 verses, while in the Hebrew Bible it has 28 verses, with the four extra verses attached to chapter 7.

[5:6]  ⁸ tn Heb “the hand of the Lord was heavy upon.”

[5:6]  ⁹ tn The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[5:6]  ¹⁰ tc The LXX and Vulgate add the following: “And mice multiplied in their land, and the terror of death was throughout the entire city.”

[5:6]  tn Or “tumors” (so ASV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); NCV “growths on their skin”; KJV “emerods”; NAB “hemorrhoids.”

[5:7]  ¹¹ tn Heb “men.”

[5:7]  ¹² tn Heb “for his hand is severe upon.”

[5:8]  ¹³ tn Heb “and they sent and gathered.”

[5:9]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the hand of the Lord was against the city.”

[5:9]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and he struck the men of the city from small and to great.”

[5:9]  ¹⁶ tn See the note on this term in v. 6. Cf. KJV “and they had emerods in their secret parts.”

[5:10]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “to me.”

[5:10]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “my.”

[5:11]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and they sent and gathered.”

[5:11]  ²⁰ tn Heb “me.”

[5:11]  ²¹ tn Heb “my.”

[5:11]  ²² tn Or “panic.”

[5:11]  ²³ tn Heb “the hand of God was very heavy there.”

[13:11]  ²⁴ tn Grk “And now.” Because of the difference between Greek style, which often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” and English style, which generally does not, καί (kai) has not been translated here.

[13:11]  ²⁵ tn Grk “upon,” but in a negative sense.

[13:11]  ²⁶ sn The term translated mistiness here appears in the writings of the physician Galen as a medical technical description of a person who is blind. The picture of judgment to darkness is symbolic as well. Whatever power Elymas had, it represented darkness. Magic will again be an issue in Acts 19:18-19. This judgment is like that of Ananias and his wife in Acts 5:1-11.

[13:11]  ²⁷ tn Grk “fell on.”

[13:11]  ²⁸ tn The noun χειραγωγός (ceiragwgo") is plural, so “people” is used rather than singular “someone.”