“And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch forth thine hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.”
Then the Lord said to Moses: stretch out your hand toward the sky so that hail will fall all over Egypt — on people and animals and on everything growing in the fields of Egypt. The instruction is to stretch the hand toward the sky — not toward the water as in the first plague, not toward the dust as with the gnats, but toward the heavens. Each plague involves a different element of creation: water, living creatures, dust, insects, disease on flesh, and now weather from the sky. God is moving through the entire created order, demonstrating sovereignty over every domain. Psalm 148:8 calls hail to praise the Lord, listing it among the instruments of creation that fulfill His word. The hail that will fall on Egypt is creation obeying its Creator, directed against the empire that reduced the Creator's image-bearers to slaves.
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