He smote their vines also, and their fig trees,.... So that they died; for in Ps 78:47, it is said, he "killed" them; and it is not only used in common speech with us, but with classical writers 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, Ex 9:25.
"----interice messes", Virgil. Georgic. l. 4. "Neque herbas crescere et interfici", Ciceron. Oeconom: ex Xenophon, l.