Exodus 9:16

Plague Seven: Hail

¹⁵ By now I could have stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with a plague, and you would have been obliterated from the earth. ¹⁶ However, I have let you live for this purpose: to show you My power and to make My name known in all the earth. ¹⁷ You are still acting arrogantly against My people by not letting them go.

All the Earth

For This Cause

For This Purpose

Known in All the Earth

Throughout the Earth

For This Very Reason

Romans 9:17

For the Scripture tells Pharaoh:

I raised you up for this reason
so that I may display My power in you
and that My name may be proclaimed in all the earth.

Proverbs 16:4

The Lord has prepared everything for His purpose—
even the wicked for the day of disaster.

Psalm 83:17-18

Let them be put to shame and terrified forever;
let them perish in disgrace.

Exodus 14:17

I am going to harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them, and I will receive glory by means of Pharaoh, all his army, and his chariots and horsemen.

Exodus 14:4

I will harden Pharaoh’s heart so that he will pursue them. Then I will receive glory by means of Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am Yahweh.” So the Israelites did this.

Exodus 15:11-16

Lord, who is like You among the gods?
Who is like You, glorious in holiness,
revered with praises, performing wonders?

Exodus 18:11

Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods, because He did wonders when the Egyptians acted arrogantly against Israel.”

Joshua 2:10-11

For we have heard how the Lord dried up the waters of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to Sihon and Og, the two Amorite kings you completely destroyed across the Jordan.

1 Samuel 4:8

Woe to us, who will rescue us from the hand of these magnificent gods? These are the gods that slaughtered the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness.

1 Chronicles 16:24

Declare His glory among the nations,
His wonderful works among all peoples.

Psalm 64:9

Then everyone will fear
and will tell about God’s work,
for they will understand what He has done.

Psalm 136:10-15

He struck the firstborn of the Egyptians
        His love is eternal.

Isaiah 63:12-14

He sent His glorious arm
to be at Moses’ right hand,
divided the waters before them
to obtain eternal fame for Himself,

Malachi 1:11

“For My name will be great among the nations, from the rising of the sun to its setting. Incense and pure offerings will be presented in My name in every place because My name will be great among the nations,” says Yahweh of Hosts.

Malachi 1:14

“The deceiver is cursed who has an acceptable male in his flock and makes a vow but sacrifices a defective animal to the Lord. For I am a great King,” says Yahweh of Hosts, “and My name will be feared among the nations.

Romans 9:22

And what if God, desiring to display His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience objects of wrath ready for destruction?

1 Peter 2:8

and

A stone to stumble over,
and a rock to trip over.

They stumble because they disobey the message; they were destined for this.

1 Peter 2:19

For it brings favor if, mindful of God’s will, someone endures grief from suffering unjustly.

Jude 1:4

For some men, who were designated for this judgment long ago, have come in by stealth; they are ungodly, turning the grace of our God into promiscuity and denying Jesus Christ, our only Master and Lord.