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Sálmarnir 78:48
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
gave up: Heb. shut up
hot thunderbolts: or, lightnings, Exodus 9:28
Reciprocal: Exodus 9:6 - General Exodus 9:23 - and hail Deuteronomy 4:34 - by signs Psalms 18:13 - thundered Psalms 105:32 - them hail for rain Psalms 147:17 - casteth Revelation 8:7 - hail
Gill's Notes on the Bible
He gave up their cattle also to the hail,.... For the hail fell upon man and beast, as well as upon herbs and trees, Exodus 9:22,
and their flocks to hot thunderbolts: which were killed by them: this is to be understood of the fire that was mingled with the hail, and ran upon the ground, and destroyed their flocks, Exodus 9:23. Jarchi, out of the Midrash, interprets the words of fowls which devoured the sheep killed by the hail.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
He gave up their cattle also to the hail - Margin, he shut up. Exodus 9:22-25.
And their flocks to hot thunderbolts - Margin, lightnings. The original word means flame; then, lightning. There is no allusion in the word to the idea of a bolt, or shaft, accompanying the lightning or the thunder, by which destruction is produced. The destruction is caused by the lightning, and not by the thunder, and it is hardly necessary to say that there is no shaft or bolt that accompanies it. Probably this notion was formerly entertained, and found its way into the common language used. The same idea is retained by us in the word thunderbolt. But this idea is not in the original; nor is there any foundation for it in fact.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 78:48. He gave up their cattle — See on Exodus 9:23.
