Exodus 9 · Verse 26

Exodus 9:26

Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.
Exodus 9:26, King James Version

Exodus 9:26 in other translations

BSBThe only place where it did not hail was in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites lived.
WEBOnly in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, there was no hail.
ASVOnly in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.
YLTonly in the land of Goshen, where the sons of Israel are, there hath been no hail.
DARBYOnly in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.
BBEOnly in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, there was no ice-storm.
WebsterOnly in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, there was no hail.

What does Exodus 9:26 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 26 Only in the land of Goshen - was there no hail - What a signal proof of a most particular providence! Surely both the Hebrews and Egyptians profited by this display of the goodness and severity of God.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Exodus 9:22-35

Woful havoc this hail made: it killed both men and cattle; the corn above ground was destroyed, and that only preserved which as yet was not come up. The land of Goshen was preserved. God causes rain or hail on one city and not on another, either in mercy or in judgment. Pharaoh humbled himself to Moses. No man could have spoken better: he owns himself wrong; he owns that the Lord is righteous; and God must be…

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Exodus 9:26 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

רַ֚קrakonlyH7535
בְּאֶ֣רֶץbe.'E.retzin [the] land ofH776
גֹּ֔שֶׁןGo.shenGoshenH1657
אֲשֶׁר\־'a.Sher-whereH834
שָׁ֖םsham[were] thereH8033
בְּנֵ֣יbe.Nei[the] people ofH1121
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑לYis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478
לֹ֥אlo'notH3808
הָיָ֖הha.Yahit wasH1961
בָּרָֽד\׃ba.RadhailH1259

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Exodus 9:26

  • Exodus 11:7

    But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the Lord doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.

  • Exodus 9:4

    And the Lord shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt: and there shall nothing die of all that is the children’s of Israel.

  • Exodus 10:23

    They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

  • Exodus 9:6

    And the Lord did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died: but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one.

  • Exodus 12:13

    And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.

  • Exodus 8:22-32

    And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am the Lord in the midst of the earth. And I will put a division between my people and thy people: to morrow shall this sign be. And the Lord did so; and there came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants’ houses, and into all the land of Egypt: the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies. And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land. …

  • Isaiah 32:18-19

    And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places; When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
8:22-32; 9:4,6; 10:23; 11:7; 12:13; Isa 32:18,19

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Exodus 9:25

    And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field.

  • Exodus 9:26

    Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.

  • Exodus 9:27

    And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I have sinned this time: the Lord is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.

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Exodus 9:26 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Solamente en la tierra de Gosén, donde los hijos de Israel estaban, no hubo granizo.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Seulement dans le pays de Goshen, où étaient les fils d’Israël, il n’y eut point de grêle.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Nur im Lande Gosen, wo die Kinder Israel waren, war kein Hagel.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Tantum in terra Gessen, ubi erant filii Israël, grando non cecidit.