The Second Plague: Frogs. Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD, “Let My people go, so that they may serve Me.
However, if you refuse to let them go, hear this: I am going to strike your entire land with frogs. Exo 8:1-2
INTRODUCTION TO THE OLD TESTAMENT
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ISRAEL IN EGYPT, Exodus 1:8-12:36
16. How did the frogs come and how were they removed?
THE SECOND PLAGUE: FROGS
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD, “Let My people go, so that they may serve Me.
However, if you refuse to let them go, hear this: I am going to strike your entire land with frogs.
The Nile will swarm with frogs, which will come up and go into your home, into your bedroom and on to your bed, and into the houses of your servants and on your people, and into your ovens and your kneading bowls.
So the frogs will come up on you and on your people and all your servants.”‘”
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the streams and canals, over the pools [among the reeds], and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt.'”
So Aaron stretched out his hand [with his staff] over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.
But the magicians (soothsayer-priests) did the same thing with their secret arts and enchantments, and brought up [more] frogs on the land of Egypt.
Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron and said, “Plead with the LORD that He may take away the frogs from me and my people; and I will let the people go, so that they may sacrifice to the LORD.”
And Moses said to Pharaoh, “I am entirely at your service: when shall I plead [with the Lord] for you and your servants and your people, so that the frogs may leave you and your houses and remain only in the Nile?”
Then Pharaoh said, “Tomorrow.” Moses replied, “May it be as you say, so that you may know [without any doubt] and acknowledge that there is no one like the LORD our God.
The frogs will leave you and your houses and leave your servants and your people; they will remain only in the Nile.”
So Moses and Aaron left Pharaoh, and Moses cried out to the LORD [as he had agreed to do] concerning the frogs which God had inflicted on Pharaoh.
The LORD did as Moses asked, and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the courtyards and villages, and out of the fields.
So they piled them up in heaps, and the land was detestable and stank.
But when Pharaoh saw that there was [temporary] relief, he hardened his heart and would not listen or pay attention to them, just as the LORD had said.
Comments by
F.B.Meyer
On
Exodus 8:1-15
THE PLAGUE OF FROGS AND ITS REMOVAL
Probably the plagues followed in rapid succession, so that the impression of one had not passed away before another succeeded. The whole conflict was probably comprehended in nine or ten months. The frog was a goddess, hence the plague was aggravated, as it was unlawful to destroy one. This stroke elicited the first symptom of surrender. Though the magicians counterfeited the coming of the frogs they failed to remove them, and the king did not hope for such help from them. Pharaoh implored the intercession of the great Hebrew brethren, who, to make the power of God and the efficacy of prayer more manifest, asked the king to fix the time. They who know God and obey Him absolutely can reckon on Him with perfect certainty and confidence. Our God delights in the faith that dares to pledge His willingness and power, and He will not fail the soul that ventures wholly on His all-sufficiency.
Comments by
WILLIAM MACDONALD
Believers Bible Commentary
On
Exodus 8:1-15
IV. MOSES’ CONFRONTATIONS WITH PHARAOH (5:1–7:13)
V. THE FIRST NINE PLAGUES (7:14–10:29)
B. The Second Plague—Frogs (8:1-15)
The plague of frogs which covered the land of Egypt was so distressing that Pharaoh seemed to relent. When he asked Moses to have the plague lifted, Moses said, “Accept the honor of saying when I shall intercede for you, for your servants, and for your people, to destroy the frogs from you and your houses, that they may remain in the river only.” The magicians were able to produce frogs also—as if there weren’t enough already! They probably did this by demonic power, but they dared not destroy the frogs because the frog was worshiped as the god of fertility! When the frogs died the next day, there was a tremendous stench from their dead bodies. Pharaoh once again hardened his heart.
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