Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Exodus 9:5
And the LORD appointed a set time, saying, Tomorrow the LORD shall do this thing in the land.
5. To-morrow ] cf. Exo 8:23.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 5. To-morrow the Lord shall do this] By thus foretelling the evil, he showed his prescience and power; and from this both the Egyptians and Hebrews must see that the mortality that ensued was no casualty, but the effect of a predetermined purpose in the Divine justice.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
And the Lord appointed a set time,…. For the coming of this plague, that it might plainly appear it came from him, and was not owing to any natural cause:
saying, tomorrow the Lord shall do this thing in the land; thus giving him time and space, as he had often done before, to consider the matter well, repent of his obstinacy, and dismiss the people of Israel, and so prevent the plague coming upon the cattle, as threatened.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(5) The Lord appointed a set time.As murrain is not uncommon in Egypt, especially in the Delta, and the coming affliction might therefore be ascribed by the Egyptians to natural causes, God took care to mark its miraculous character (1) by appointing a time; (2) by exempting the cattle of Israel; (3) by making the disease fatal to all the cattle of the Egyptians that were left in the field.
Tomorrow.The delay allowed any Egyptians who believed Moses to save their cattle by housing them.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Pro 27:1 .
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
a set time: Exo 9:18, Exo 8:23, Exo 10:4, Num 16:5, Job 24:1, Ecc 3:1-11, Jer 28:16, Jer 28:17, Mat 27:63, Mat 27:64
Reciprocal: 2Ki 7:1 – To morrow
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Exo 9:5. The Lord appointed a set time This appointing of a set or particular time, both for bringing on the plagues and removing them, and that at as short a distance as the nature of the appointment would admit, and the leaving it once, at least, to Pharaoh himself to fix it, seems to have been intended to prevent the Egyptians, who were possessed with highly superstitious notions of the influence of the heavenly bodies at particular times, from thinking that Moses took advantage of his knowledge of those times to work his miracles.