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Exodus 8:2-14

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2 But if you 1refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your country with 2frogs.
3 The Nile shall swarm with frogs that shall come up into your house and into 3your bedroom and on your bed and into the houses of your servants and your people,[a] and into your ovens and your kneading bowls.
4 The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your servants."'"
5 [b] And the LORD said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 4'Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the canals and over the pools, and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt!'"
6 So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and 5the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.
7 But 6the magicians did the same by their secret arts and made frogs come up on the land of Egypt.
8 Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron and said, 7"Plead with the LORD to take away the frogs from me and from my people, and 8I will let the people go to sacrifice to the LORD."
9 Moses said to Pharaoh, "Be pleased to command me when 9I am to plead for you and for your servants and for your people, that the frogs be cut off from you and your houses and be left only in the Nile."
10 And he said, "Tomorrow." Moses said, "Be it as you say, so 10that you may know that 11there is no one like the LORD our God.
11 The frogs shall go away from you and your houses and your servants and your people. They shall be left only in the Nile."
12 So Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to the LORD about the frogs, as he had agreed with Pharaoh.[c]
13 And the LORD did according to the word of Moses. The frogs died out in the houses, the courtyards, and the fields.
14 And they gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.
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Exodus 8:2-14 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 8

In this chapter Pharaoh is threatened with the plague of frogs, in case he refused to let Israel go, which accordingly was brought upon him, Ex 8:1-6 and though the magicians did something similar to it, yet these were so troublesome to Pharaoh, that he promised to let the people go, and sacrifice to God, if they removed; and a time being fixed for the removal of them, it was accordingly done at the entreaty of Moses and Aaron, Ex 8:7-14 but there being a respite, Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and the plague of lice is ordered, and which was executed; and though this the magicians essayed to do, and could not, but owned it to be the finger of God, yet Pharaoh's heart was hardened, Ex 8:15-19 wherefore he is threatened with a swarm of flies, which should not infest Goshen, only the places where the Egyptians dwelt, and it was so, Ex 8:20-24 upon which Pharaoh called for Moses, and declared himself willing the people would sacrifice in the land; but this not being satisfactory, he agreed they should go into the wilderness, but not so far; and on the account of the entreaty of Moses, the plague was removed; but still Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he would not let the people go, Ex 8:25-32.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 11

  • 1. Exodus 7:14; Exodus 9:2
  • 2. [Revelation 16:13]
  • 3. Psalms 105:30
  • 4. See Exodus 7:19
  • 5. Psalms 78:45; Psalms 105:30
  • 6. See Exodus 7:11
  • 7. ver. 28, 30; Exodus 9:28; Exodus 10:17, 18; [Numbers 21:7; 1 Kings 13:6; Acts 8:24]
  • 8. ver. 25-28; Exodus 10:8, 24; Exodus 12:31, 32
  • 9. [See ver. 8 above]
  • 10. ver. 22; Exodus 7:17
  • 11. Exodus 9:14; Deuteronomy 33:26; 2 Samuel 7:22; 1 Chronicles 17:20; Psalms 86:8; Isaiah 46:9; Jeremiah 10:6, 7

Footnotes 3

  • [a]. Or among your people
  • [b]. Ch 8:1 in Hebrew
  • [c]. Or which he had brought upon Pharaoh
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