Keluaran 9:14

9:14 For this time I will send all my plagues ¹  on your very self ²  and on your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.

Keluaran 9:1

The Fifth Blow: Disease

9:1 ³ Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and tell him, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, “Release my people that they may serve me!

1 Samuel 5:6-11

5:6 The Lord attacked ⁴  the residents of Ashdod severely, bringing devastation on them. He struck the people of ⁵  both Ashdod and the surrounding area with sores. ⁶  5:7 When the people ⁷  of Ashdod saw what was happening, they said, “The ark of the God of Israel should not remain with us, for he has attacked ⁸  both us and our god Dagon!”

5:8 So they assembled ⁹  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 ¹⁰  that city as well, causing a great deal of panic. He struck all the people of that city ¹¹  with sores. ¹²  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 ¹³  to kill our ¹⁴  people!” 5:11 So they assembled ¹⁵  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 ¹⁶  and our ¹⁷  people!” The terror ¹⁸  of death was throughout the entire city; God was attacking them very severely there. ¹⁹ 

Yeremia 44:28

44:28 Some who survive in battle will return to the land of Judah from the land of Egypt. But they will be very few indeed! ²⁰  Then the Judean remnant who have come to live in the land of Egypt will know whose word proves true, ²¹  mine or theirs.’

Lukas 16:23

16:23 And in hell, ²²  as he was in torment, ²³  he looked up ²⁴  and saw Abraham far off with Lazarus at his side. ²⁵ 

[9:14]  ¹ tn The expression “all my plagues” points to the rest of the plagues and anticipates the proper outcome. Another view is to take the expression to mean the full brunt of the attack on the Egyptian people.

[9:14]  ² tn Heb “to your heart.” The expression is unusual, but it may be an allusion to the hard heartedness of Pharaoh – his stubbornness and blindness (B. Jacob, Exodus, 274).

[9:1]  ³ sn This plague demonstrates that Yahweh has power over the livestock of Egypt. He is able to strike the animals with disease and death, thus delivering a blow to the economic as well as the religious life of the land. By the former plagues many of the Egyptian religious ceremonies would have been interrupted and objects of veneration defiled or destroyed. Now some of the important deities will be attacked. In Goshen, where the cattle are merely cattle, no disease hits, but in the rest of Egypt it is a different matter. Osiris, the savior, cannot even save the brute in which his own soul is supposed to reside. Apis and Mnevis, the ram of Ammon, the sheep of Sais, and the goat of Mendes, perish together. Hence, Moses reminds Israel afterward, “On their gods also Yahweh executed judgments” (Num 33:4). When Jethro heard of all these events, he said, “Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all the gods” (Exod 18:11).

[5:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “the hand of the Lord was heavy upon.”

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

[5:6]  ⁶ 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]  ⁷ tn Heb “men.”

[5:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “for his hand is severe upon.”

[5:8]  ⁹ tn Heb “and they sent and gathered.”

[5:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the hand of the Lord was against the city.”

[5:9]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and he struck the men of the city from small and to great.”

[5:9]  ¹² tn See the note on this term in v. 6. Cf. KJV “and they had emerods in their secret parts.”

[5:10]  ¹³ tn Heb “to me.”

[5:10]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “my.”

[5:11]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and they sent and gathered.”

[5:11]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “me.”

[5:11]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “my.”

[5:11]  ¹⁸ tn Or “panic.”

[5:11]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “the hand of God was very heavy there.”

[44:28]  ²⁰ tn Heb “The survivors of the sword will return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah few in number [more literally, “men of number”; for the idiom see BDB 709 s.v. מִסְפָּר 1.a].” The term “survivors of the sword” may be intended to represent both those who survive death in war or death by starvation or disease, a synecdoche of species for all three genera.

[44:28]  sn This statement shows that the preceding “none,” “never again,” “all” in vv. 26-27 are rhetorical hyperbole. Not all but almost all; very few would survive. The following statement implies that the reason that they are left alive is to bear witness to the fact that the Lord’s threats were indeed carried out. See vv. 11-14 for a parallel use of “all” and “none” qualified by a “few.”

[44:28]  ²¹ tn Heb “will stand,” i.e., in the sense of being fulfilled, proving to be true, or succeeding (see BDB 878 s.v. קוּם 7.g).

[16:23]  ²² sn The Greek term Hades stands for the Hebrew concept of Sheol. It is what is called hell today. This is where the dead were gathered (Ps 16:10; 86:13). In the NT Hades has an additional negative force of awaiting judgment (Rev 20:13).

[16:23]  ²³ sn Hades is a place of torment, especially as one knows that he is separated from God.

[16:23]  ²⁴ tn Grk “he lifted up his eyes” (an idiom).

[16:23]  ²⁵ tn Grk “in his bosom,” the same phrase used in 16:22. This idiom refers to heaven and/or participation in the eschatological banquet. An appropriate modern equivalent is “at Abraham’s side.”