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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

Exodus 8

Exodus 8:1

EXODUS CHAPTER 8 God sends Moses to Pharaoh that he might let the people go, EXODUS 8:1. He threatens his denial with a judgment of frogs, EXODUS 8:2. Aaron stretching forth his rod, Egypt is covered with frogs, EXODUS 8:6. The magicians do so, EXODUS 8:7. Pharaoh calls Moses and Aaron to entreat th... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 8:2

All thy land which is within thy borders; a synecdoche; so that word is used also EXODUS 10:4,19 1 KINGS 1:3 PSALMS 147:14 JEREMIAH 15:13. So the _gate_ and the _wall_ are put for the city to which they belong, GENESIS 22:17 AMOS 1:7,10,14.... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 8:3

THE RIVER; under which are comprehended all other rivers, streams, and ponds, as appears from EXODUS 8:5. But the river Nilus is mentioned, because God would make that an instrument of their misery in which they most gloried, EZEKIEL 29:3, and to which they gave divine honours, and which was the ins... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 8:4

Not upon the Israelites, whom he hereby exempts from the number of Pharaoh's people and subjects, and owns them for his peculiar people. The frogs did not only invade their houses, but assault their persons, which is not strange, considering that they were armed with a Divine commission and power.... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 8:9

GLORY OVER ME: as I have gloried over thee in laying first my commands, and then my plagues upon thee, so now lay thy commands upon me for the time of my praying; and if I do not what thou requirest, I am content thou shouldst insult over me, punish me. Or, _glory_, or _boast thyself of_, or _concer... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 8:10

Why not presently? ANSW. 1. Because he hoped ere that time they might be removed, either by natural causes or by chance, and so he should not need the favour of Moses or his God. 2. Because he thought it a hard and long work to remove so vast a number of frogs, and that Moses might use divers cere... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 8:12

Or, as the place is fitly rendered by others, _because of the word, or matter of, or about the frogs which he had given_ or _propounded to Pharaoh_. Because he had given his word both for the thing and the time of it, he prayed more earnestly lest God should be dishonoured, and Pharaoh have occasion... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 8:13

A short speech for _they died_ and were removed out of, &c, as appears from the next verse; it being frequent in the Hebrew tongue under one verb expressed to understand another agreeable to it. See examples in the Hebrew, GENESIS 43:33,34 EXO 18:12 25:2 PROVERBS 25:22.... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 8:14

Doubtless they cast them into their rivers, or pits, &c., though that be not here mentioned. God would not instantly and wholly take them away, both to convince them of the truth of the miracle, and to make them more sensible of this judgment, and more fearful of bringing another upon themselves.... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 8:16

God, it seems, gave him no warning, because he showed himself in the very last plague to be both perfidious and incorrigible. Others think he was forewarned, though that be not here expressed. LICE, so the Hebrew word is rendered by all the Jewish and most other interpreters. But it is probable that... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 8:17

THE DUST was not fit matter to produce lice, and therefore shows this work to be Divine and miraculous. ALL THE DUST OF THE LAND, i.e. a great part of it, the word _all_ being commonly so understood in Scripture.... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 8:18

DID SO, i.e. endeavoured to do so. Thus to _enter_, MATTHEW 7:13, is put for striving to enter, LUKE 13:24. Thus men are said _to deliver_, GENESIS 37:21; _to fight_, JOSHUA 24:9; _to return_, JOSHUA 10:15; when they only attempted or endeavoured to do so. And therefore when it is said in any of the... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 8:19

THE FINGER IS PUT EITHER SYNECDOCHICALLY FOR THE HAND, as it is EXODUS 31:18 PSALMS 8:3, PSALMS 144:1; or metaphorically for the power or virtue, as LUKE 11:20, compared with MATTHEW 12:28. OF GOD; of that supreme God, whom both the Egyptians and other heathen idolaters acknowledged as superior to a... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 8:21

SWARMS OF FLIES; Heb. _a mixture_ of insects or flies, as appears from PSALMS 78:45, which were of various kinds, as bees, wasps, gnats, hornets, &c, infinite in their numbers, and doubtless larger and more venomous and pernicious than the common ones were.... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 8:22

Either, 1. Of the whole earth, and consequently of Egypt, that I am not only the Lord of Israel, but of thee and thy dominions too. God is here spoken of after the manner of earthly princes, who use to reside in the midst of their kingdoms, that they may more conveniently rule and influence them. O... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 8:23

A DIVISION; Heb. _a redemption_ or _deliverance_, i.e. a token or mean of deliverance, by a metonomy; a wall of partition, by which I will preserve the Israelites, whilst I destroy the Egyptians. TOMORROW SHALL THIS SIGN BE. This he saith, partly to gain the more belief to himself in what he now did... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 8:24

THE LORD DID SO, immediately by his own word, and not by Moses's rod, lest the Egyptians should think it was a magician's wand, and. that all Moses's works were done by the power of the devil. A GRIEVOUS SWARM OF FLIES; Heb. _a heavy mixture_ of flies. _Heavy_, i.e. either great, as this Hebrew word... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 8:26

IT IS NOT MEET, Heb. _not right_, neither in God's eyes, who hath appointed us the place as well as the thing; nor in the Egyptians eyes, as it follows. THE ABOMINATION OF THE EGYPTIANS; that which the Egyptians abhor to kill, or to see killed; as not only Scripture, but profane authors, as Diodorus... [ Continue Reading ]

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