"He struck their vines and also their fig trees, and shattered the trees of their country."
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.