My Mysterious Bible

The book mentioned: https://drmsh.com/the-naked-bible/two-powers-in-heaven/

Resources Used:

[1] Philip Comfort and Walter A. Elwell, The Complete Book of Who’s Who in the Bible (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2004), 489.

[2] Walter A. Elwell and Philip Wesley Comfort, Tyndale Bible Dictionary, Tyndale Reference Library (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2001), 1025.

[3] B. A. Strawn, “Pharaoh,” in Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch, ed. T. Desmond Alexander and David W. Baker (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2003), 631.

[4] Bryan C. Babcock, “Pharaoh,” in The Lexham Bible Dictionary, ed. John D. Barry et al. (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2016).

[5] John D. Barry et al., eds., “Primogeniture,” in The Lexham Bible Dictionary (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2016).

[6] S. A. Meier, “Destroyer,” in Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible, ed. Karel van der Toorn, Bob Becking, and Pieter W. van der Horst (Leiden; Boston; Köln; Grand Rapids, MI; Cambridge: Brill; Eerdmans, 1999), 240–241.

[7] Victor Harold Matthews, Mark W. Chavalas, and John H. Walton, The IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament, electronic ed. (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2000),

God causes three days of complete darkness.

Resources used:

Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch, Commentary on the Old Testament, vol. 1 (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1996), 323.

Douglas K. Stuart, Exodus, vol. 2, The New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2006), 255–261.

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/learn-about/weather/types-of-weather/clouds/mid-level-clouds/nimbostratus

The Plague of the greatest Locust Swarm of all time.

Resources used:

The Faithlife Study Bible

Noel D. Osborn and Howard A. Hatton, A Handbook on Exodus, UBS Handbook Series (New York: United Bible Societies, 1999), 241–242.

Victor Harold Matthews, Mark W. Chavalas, and John H. Walton, The IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament, electronic ed. (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2000), Ex 10:19.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/giant-locust-swarms-could-expand-to-new-areas-with-climate-change-study-suggests-180983800/

https://www.historynet.com/1874-the-year-of-the-locust/

God raises the stakes in the seventh plague of huge hail.

Once again the hard heart of Pharoah raises the stakes in this conflict.

Resources used:

John D. Hannah, “Exodus,” in The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures, ed. J. F. Walvoord and R. B. Zuck, vol. 1 (Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1985), 123.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/boils-and-carbuncles/symptoms-causes/syc-20353770

God kills the livestock of Egypt. Resources used: 

Douglas K. Stuart, Exodus, vol. 2,The New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2006), 220–224.

Alan Cole, Exodus: An Introduction and Commentary, vol. 2, Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1973), 102–103.

The Lexham Bible Dictionary

God sends swarms of flying insects to torment only the Egyptians.

We dive into the third plague which happens a little differently than the first two.

Resources used:

Victor Harold Matthews, Mark W. Chavalas, and John H. Walton, The IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament, electronic ed. (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2000), Ex 8:16–19.

“ A Commentary, Critical, Experimental, and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments: Genesis–Deuteronomy, vol. I”

David Brown, A. R. Fausset, and Robert Jamieson, A Commentary, Critical, Experimental, and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments: Genesis–Deuteronomy, vol. I (London; Glasgow: William Collins, Sons, & Company, Limited, n.d.), 299–300.

Egypt is overrun by frogs.

Resources Used:

David Brown, A. R. Fausset, and Robert Jamieson, A Commentary, Critical, Experimental, and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments: Genesis–Deuteronomy, vol. I (London; Glasgow: William Collins, Sons, & Company, Limited, n.d.), 297–299.

The IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament, electronic ed. (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2000), Ex 8:1–11.

John D. Barry et al., Faithlife Study Bible (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2012, 2016), Ex 8.

Exploring the context of the first plague against Egypt. 

Resources used:

1. Alan Cole, Exodus: An Introduction and Commentary, vol. 2, Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1973), 96–98.