Exodus 8:13

13 8:9 Und der HERR tat, wie Mose gesagt hatte; und die Frösche starben in den Häusern, in den Höfen und auf dem Felde.

Exodus 8:13 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 8:13

And the Lord did according to the word of Moses
He heard his prayers, and fulfilled what he had promised Pharaoh:

and the frogs died out of the houses, and out of the villages,
and out of the fields;
the word for "villages" signifies "courts" {b}, and may be so rendered here; and the sense is, that they not only died out of their dwelling houses, but out of their courtyards, and even out of their gardens, orchards, and fields, so that there were none near them to give any manner of trouble and offence. And their dying, and remaining dead upon the spot, were clear proofs that they were real frogs that were produced, and not in appearance only, as the frogs of the magicians might be; God could have caused them to return to the river from whence they came, or have annihilated them, or removed them out of sight in an instant; but the killing of them, and letting them lie dead, proved the truth of the miracle, and gave apparent evidence of it both ways, both in the bringing and removing them.

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FOOTNOTES:

F2 (truxh Nm) "ex atriis", Montanus, Tigurine version, Piscator.

Exodus 8:13 In-Context

11 8:7 so sollen die Frösche von dir, von deinem Hause, von deinen Knechten und von deinem Volk genommen werden und allein in Strom bleiben.

12 8:8 Also gingen Mose und Aaron von Pharao; und Mose schrie zu dem HERRN der Frösche halben, wie er Pharao hatte zugesagt.

13 8:9 Und der HERR tat, wie Mose gesagt hatte; und die Frösche starben in den Häusern, in den Höfen und auf dem Felde.

14 8:10 Und sie häuften sie zusammen, hier einen Haufen und da einen Haufen, und das Land stank davon.

15 8:11 Da aber Pharao sah, daß er Luft gekriegt hatte, verhärtete er sein Herz und hörte sie nicht, wie denn der HERR geredet hatte.