At the command of god, moses stretches out his hand toward the sky so that hail will fall all over egypt, on people, animals and on everything growing in the fields of egypt, exodus 9:22. Despite the similarities between the plagues, all of them had their own unique spin Different plagues “attacked” different egyptian deities, provoked different reactions, were manifested in different ways, or demonstrated control over various parts of nature. 9:30, “and you and your servants, i know that you have yet to fear god.” The announcement of this plague to pharaoh would be akin to god’s announcement of a flood in noah’s day Hail fell on all of egypt, except the place where the israelites lived
The plague of hail is a severe weather event that god sends as a judgment upon egypt The plague of the locusts is as god warned pharaoh through moses and once again pharaoh acknowledged that he had sinned against god and asked moses to pray for the locusts to be gone. The hebrew word for make supplication often includes the idea of presenting a sacrifice (2 samuel 24:15), and pharaoh might have thought that moses and aaron would need to present a sacrifice to the lord to persuade him to remove the plague of hail. 33 then moses left pharaoh and went out of the city He spread out his hands toward the lord The thunder and hail stopped, and the rain no longer poured down on the land
He and his officials hardened their hearts 35 so pharaoh’s heart was hard and he would. The plague of hail serves multiple theological purposes It is a direct challenge to the egyptian gods, particularly nut, the sky goddess, and set, the storm god, demonstrating the impotence of these deities before the god of israel.
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