"He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the trees of their coasts."
Commentary
Gill's Exposition
He smote their vines also, and their fig trees,.... So that they died; for in Psa 78:47 , it is said, he "killed" them; and it is not only used
in common speech with us, but with classical writers (b) to speak of killing inanimate things, as trees, herbs, &c. That is, the hail smote them, or God by the hail; these are particularly mentioned because most useful, producing grapes and figs. And brake the trees of their coasts: all the trees within the borders of their land, Exo 9:25 . (b) "----interice messes", Virgil. Georgic. l. 4. "Neque herbas crescere et interfici", Ciceron. Oeconom: ex Xenophon, l. 3.
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Commentary
Gill's Exposition
He smote their vines also, and their fig trees,.... So that they died; for in Psa 78:47 , it is said, he "killed" them; and it is not only used
in common speech with us, but with classical writers (b) to speak of killing inanimate things, as trees, herbs, &c. That is, the hail smote them, or God by the hail; these are particularly mentioned because most useful, producing grapes and figs. And brake the trees of their coasts: all the trees within the borders of their land, Exo 9:25 . (b) "----interice messes", Virgil. Georgic. l. 4. "Neque herbas crescere et interfici", Ciceron. Oeconom: ex Xenophon, l. 3.