_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._ The Lord spake ... Go unto Pharaoh. The infliction of the first plague, as a judgment of God, produced no good effect upon Pharaoh; and Moses was commanded to wait on t... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IF THOU REFUSE TO LET THEM GO, BEHOLD, I WILL SMITE ALL THY BORDERS WITH FROGS:_ I will smite ... х_ NOGEEP_ (H5062)] - smite by the infliction of a divine judgment; I will plague х_ BATSªPARDª`IYM_ (H6854)], with the frogs-from х_ TSAAPAR_ (H6852)], to leap-a marsh-leaper (Gesenius) [Septuagi... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE RIVER SHALL BRING FORTH FROGS ABUNDANTLY, WHICH SHALL GO UP AND COME INTO THINE HOUSE, AND INTO THY BEDCHAMBER, AND UPON THY BED, AND INTO THE HOUSE OF THY SERVANTS, AND UPON THY PEOPLE, AND INTO THINE OVENS, AND INTO THY KNEADINGTROUGHS:_ Bed-chamber - literally, the chamber of thy lying... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE FROGS SHALL COME UP BOTH ON THEE, AND UPON THY PEOPLE, AND UPON ALL THY SERVANTS._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAY UNTO AARON, STRETCH FORTH THINE HAND WITH THY ROD OVER THE STREAMS, OVER THE RIVERS, AND OVER THE PONDS, AND CAUSE FROGS TO COME UP UPON THE LAND OF EGYPT._ Stretch forth ... The miracle consisted in the reptiles leaving their marshes at the very time Aaron comma... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE MAGICIANS DID SO WITH THEIR ENCHANTMENTS, AND BROUGHT UP FROGS UPON THE LAND OF EGYPT._ The magicians did so with their enchantments. It required no great art to make the offensive reptiles appear on any small spot of ground. What the magicians undertook to do already existed in abundance... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN PHARAOH CALLED FOR MOSES AND AARON, AND SAID, INTREAT THE LORD, THAT HE MAY TAKE AWAY THE FROGS FROM ME, AND FROM MY PEOPLE; AND I WILL LET THE PEOPLE GO, THAT THEY MAY DO SACRIFICE UNTO THE LORD._ Pharaoh called ... Entreat the Lord. The frog, which was now used as an instrument of afflictio... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MOSES SAID UNTO PHARAOH, GLORY OVER ME: WHEN SHALL I INTREAT FOR THEE, AND FOR THY SERVANTS, AND FOR THY PEOPLE, TO DESTROY THE FROGS FROM THEE AND THY HOUSES, THAT THEY MAY REMAIN IN THE RIVER ONLY?_ Glory over me. 'Vaunt thyself-assume all the glory of ordering me, who am the servant of Yahw... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID, TO MORROW. AND HE SAID, BE IT ACCORDING TO THY WORD: THAT THOU MAYEST KNOW THAT THERE IS NONE LIKE UNTO THE LORD OUR GOD._ And he said, Tomorrow. Calvin thinks that the plague instantly ceased, and Pharaoh's reason for fixing the next day as the time was, that after obtaining a promis... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE FROGS SHALL DEPART FROM THEE, AND FROM THY HOUSES, AND FROM THY SERVANTS, AND FROM THY PEOPLE; THEY SHALL REMAIN IN THE RIVER ONLY._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MOSES AND AARON WENT OUT FROM PHARAOH: AND MOSES CRIED UNTO THE LORD BECAUSE OF THE FROGS WHICH HE HAD BROUGHT AGAINST PHARAOH._ Moses ... cried unto the Lord. х_ WAYITS`AQ_ (H6817) _ 'EL_ (H413) _ YAHWEH_ (H3068), earnestly entreated, vehemently implored, as this verb, to cry, when followed b... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD DID ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF MOSES; AND THE FROGS DIED OUT OF THE HOUSES, OUT OF THE VILLAGES, AND OUT OF THE FIELDS._ And the Lord did according to the word of Moses. The plague was stayed. No more frogs were permitted to issue from the slimy banks of the river. But the myriads which... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY GATHERED THEM TOGETHER UPON HEAPS: AND THE LAND STANK._ They gathered them together upon heaps; and the land stank. The collection of these reptiles in heaps would, by disengaging the putrid effluvia, and polluting the air by the unwholesome stench from the carcases, immensely aggravate t... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT WHEN PHARAOH SAW THAT THERE WAS RESPITE, HE HARDENED HIS HEART, AND HEARKENED NOT UNTO THEM; AS THE LORD HAD SAID._ Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart. But many, while suffering the consequences of their sins, make promises of amendment and obedience which they afterward... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES, SAY UNTO AARON, STRETCH OUT THY ROD, AND SMITE THE DUST OF THE LAND, THAT IT MAY BECOME LICE THROUGHOUT ALL THE LAND OF EGYPT._ Smite the dust of the land .... Aaron's rod, by the direction of Moses, who was commanded by God, was again raised, and the land was filled... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY DID SO; FOR AARON STRETCHED OUT HIS HAND WITH HIS ROD, AND SMOTE THE DUST OF THE EARTH, AND IT BECAME LICE IN MAN, AND IN BEAST; ALL THE DUST OF THE LAND BECAME LICE THROUGHOUT ALL THE LAND OF EGYPT._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES, RISE UP EARLY IN THE MORNING, AND STAND BEFORE PHARAOH; LO, HE COMETH FORTH TO THE WATER; AND SAY UNTO HIM, THUS SAITH THE LORD, LET MY PEOPLE GO, THAT THEY MAY SERVE ME._ Rise up early ... Pharaoh; lo, he cometh ... Pharaoh still appearing obdurate, Moses was ordered... [ Continue Reading ]
_ELSE, IF THOU WILT NOT LET MY PEOPLE GO, BEHOLD, I WILL SEND SWARMS OF FLIES UPON THEE, AND UPON THY SERVANTS, AND UPON THY PEOPLE, AND INTO THY HOUSES: AND THE HOUSES OF THE EGYPTIANS SHALL BE FULL OF SWARMS OF FLIES, AND ALSO THE GROUND WHEREON THEY ARE._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THIS VERSE.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND I WILL SEVER IN THAT DAY THE LAND OF GOSHEN, IN WHICH MY PEOPLE DWELL, THAT NO SWARMS OF FLIES SHALL BE THERE; TO THE END THOU MAYEST KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD IN THE MIDST OF THE EARTH._ Thou mayest know that I am the Lord in the midst of the earth - rather, the sole, the sovereign proprietor a... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND I WILL PUT A DIVISION BETWEEN MY PEOPLE AND THY PEOPLE: TO MORROW SHALL THIS SIGN BE._ I will put a division between my people and thy people. The reason of this distinction is to be traced to the circumstance of the magicians acknowledging the power of some, perhaps, Egyptian deity in the for... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD DID SO; AND THERE CAME A GRIEVOUS SWARM OF FLIES INTO THE HOUSE OF PHARAOH, AND INTO HIS SERVANTS' HOUSES, AND INTO ALL THE LAND OF EGYPT: THE LAND WAS CORRUPTED BY REASON OF THE SWARM OF FLIES._ The land was corrupted - or laid waste; because this prodigious swarm of flies not only a... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND PHARAOH CALLED FOR MOSES AND FOR AARON, AND SAID, GO YE, SACRIFICE TO YOUR GOD IN THE LAND._ Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land. Between impatient anxiety to be freed from this scourge, and a reluctance to part with the Hebrew bondsmen, t... [ Continue Reading ]