My Mysterious Bible

Podcast update

Updates concerning the podcast.
 
 
 

The Ninth Plague, three days of complete darkness.

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 Eighth Plague against Egypt.

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/

The Seventh Plague against Egypt

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

The Sixth Plague - Boils

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

The Fifth Plague against Egypt

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

The Fourth Plague

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

The third plague of flying insects.

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.

The Second Plague against Egypt

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.

The Plagues of Egypt Series Part 1 - The Nile turns to blood.

Exploring the context of the first plague against Egypt. 
 
Resources used:
Alan Cole, Exodus: An Introduction and Commentary, vol. 2, Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1973), 96–98.