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Selected Verse: Exodus 8:1 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ex 8:1 |
Strong Concordance |
And the LORD [03068] spake [0559] unto Moses [04872], Go [0935] unto Pharaoh [06547], and say [0559] unto him, Thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068], Let my people [05971] go [07971], that they may serve [05647] me. |
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King James |
And the LORD spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go, that they may serve me. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
PLAGUE OF FROGS. (Exo 8:1-15)
the Lord spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh--The duration of the first plague for a whole week must have satisfied all that it was produced not by any accidental causes, but by the agency of omnipotent power. As a judgment of God, however, it produced no good effect, and Moses was commanded to wait on the king and threaten him, in the event of his continued obstinacy, with the infliction of a new and different plague. As Pharaoh's answer is not given, it may be inferred to have been unfavorable, for the rod was again raised. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| The plague of Frogs, or the second plague, also proceeded from the Nile, and had its natural origin in the putridity of the slimy Nile water, whereby the marsh waters especially became filled with thousands of frogs. צפרדּע is the small Nile frog, the Dofda of the Egyptians, called rana Mosaica or Nilotica by Seetzen, which appears in large numbers as soon as the waters recede. These frogs (הצּפרדּע in Exo 8:6, used collectively) became a penal miracle from the fact that they came out of the water in unparalleled numbers, in consequence of the stretching out of Aaron's staff over the waters of the Nile, as had been foretold to the king, and that they not only penetrated into the houses and inner rooms ("bed-chamber"), and crept into the domestic utensils, the beds (מטּה), the ovens, and the kneading-troughs (not the "dough" as Luther renders it), but even got upon the men themselves. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Let my people go - God, in great mercy to Pharaoh and the Egyptians, gives them notice of the evils he intended to bring upon them if they continued in their obstinacy. Having had therefore such warning, the evil might have been prevented by a timely humiliation and return to God. |
1 And the LORD [03068] spake [0559] unto Moses [04872], Go [0935] unto Pharaoh [06547], and say [0559] unto him, Thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068], Let my people [05971] go [07971], that they may serve [05647] me.
2 And if thou refuse [03986] to let them go [07971], behold, I will smite [05062] all thy borders [01366] with frogs [06854]:
3 And the river [02975] shall bring forth [08317] frogs [06854] abundantly [08317], which shall go up [05927] and come [0935] into thine house [01004], and into thy bedchamber [02315] [04904], and upon thy bed [04296], and into the house [01004] of thy servants [05650], and upon thy people [05971], and into thine ovens [08574], and into thy kneadingtroughs [04863]:
4 And the frogs [06854] shall come up [05927] both on thee, and upon thy people [05971], and upon all thy servants [05650].
5 And the LORD [03068] spake [0559] unto Moses [04872], Say [0559] unto Aaron [0175], Stretch forth [05186] thine hand [03027] with thy rod [04294] over the streams [05104], over the rivers [02975], and over the ponds [098], and cause frogs [06854] to come up [05927] upon the land [0776] of Egypt [04714].
6 And Aaron [0175] stretched out [05186] his hand [03027] over the waters [04325] of Egypt [04714]; and the frogs [06854] came up [05927], and covered [03680] the land [0776] of Egypt [04714].
7 And the magicians [02748] did [06213] so with their enchantments [03909], and brought up [05927] frogs [06854] upon the land [0776] of Egypt [04714].
8 Then Pharaoh [06547] called [07121] for Moses [04872] and Aaron [0175], and said [0559], Intreat [06279] the LORD [03068], that he may take away [05493] the frogs [06854] from me, and from my people [05971]; and I will let the people [05971] go [07971], that they may do sacrifice [02076] unto the LORD [03068].
9 And Moses [04872] said [0559] unto Pharaoh [06547], Glory [06286] over me: when [04970] shall I intreat [06279] for thee, and for thy servants [05650], and for thy people [05971], to destroy [03772] the frogs [06854] from thee and thy houses [01004], that they may remain [07604] in the river [02975] only?
10 And he said [0559], To morrow [04279]. And he said [0559], Be it according to thy word [01697]: that thou mayest know [03045] that there is none like unto the LORD [03068] our God [0430].
11 And the frogs [06854] shall depart [05493] from thee, and from thy houses [01004], and from thy servants [05650], and from thy people [05971]; they shall remain [07604] in the river [02975] only.
12 And Moses [04872] and Aaron [0175] went out [03318] from Pharaoh [06547]: and Moses [04872] cried [06817] unto the LORD [03068] because of [01697] the frogs [06854] which he had brought [07760] against Pharaoh [06547].
13 And the LORD [03068] did [06213] according to the word [01697] of Moses [04872]; and the frogs [06854] died [04191] out of the houses [01004], out of the villages [02691], and out of the fields [07704].
14 And they gathered them together [06651] upon heaps [02563]: and the land [0776] stank [0887].
15 But when Pharaoh [06547] saw [07200] that there was respite [07309], he hardened [03513] his heart [03820], and hearkened [08085] not unto them; as the LORD [03068] had said [01696].
6 And Aaron [0175] stretched out [05186] his hand [03027] over the waters [04325] of Egypt [04714]; and the frogs [06854] came up [05927], and covered [03680] the land [0776] of Egypt [04714].