The land was corrupted. — Rather, as in the margin, destroyed. Kalisch observes, “These insects” — i.e., the kakerlaque (Blatta Orientalis), “really fill the land, and molest men and beasts; they consume all sorts of materials, devastate the country, and are in so far more detrimental than the gnats, as they destroy also the property of the Egyptians.”
Verse Exodus 8:24. _THE LAND WAS CORRUPTED_] Every thing was spoiled, and many of the inhabitants destroyed, being probably stung to death by these venomous insects. This seems to be intimated by the...
CHAPTER 8 THE SECOND, THIRD, AND FOURTH PLAGUES _ 1. The demand and the plague of frogs announced (Exodus 8:1)_ 2. The plague executed (Exodus 8:5) 3. The request of Pharaoh and the frogs removed ...
EXODUS 7:14 TO EXODUS 12:36. THE TEN PLAGUES. How deeply this series of events imprinted itself on the mind and heart of the nation is shown by the fulness with which the three sources report them. J...
EXODUS 8:20 J. 4°. FLIES INFEST THE LAND. Driver argues that some _definite_ insect is evidently meant. some particularly irritating kind of fly, and renders dog-fly after LXX. The S. wind constantly...
INTO. This word, in italics, is. special reading called _Sevir._ See App-34. AND. This is omitted in the readings called _Sevir._ the land. Samaritan Pentateuch and Septuagint read "and the land". C...
Exodus 7:14 to Exodus 11:5 _The first nine Plagues_ The narrative of the Plagues, like that of the preceding Chapter s, is composite. The details of the analysis depend partly upon literary criteria...
_grievous_ lit. _heavy_, combining, as Exodus 10:14, the ideas of both _numerous_(Exodus 12:38; Genesis 50:9, Heb.), and _severe_(Exodus 9:3;...
THE LAND WAS CORRUPTED— Le Clerc understands the expression, _the land was corrupted_ of the _flesh_ and other _eatables_ in the land; which, these vermin having preyed upon and fly-blown, bred maggot...
The Text of EXODUS TRANSLATION 8 And Je-ho-vah spake unto Mo-ses, Go in unto Pha-raoh, and say unto him, Thus saith Je-ho-vah, Let my people go, that they may serve me. (2) And if thou refuse to let t...
_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 O...
THE SECOND, THIRD, AND FOURTH PLAGUES 1-15. The Second Plague:—Frogs. This plague, like the first, was not only in itself loathsome, but an offence to the religious notions of the Egyptians. The frog...
WAS CORRUPTED] MG 'was destroyed.'...
EXODUS: ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION THE *ISRAELITES LEAVE EGYPT EXODUS CHAPTER S 1 TO 18 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 8 *PLAGUE NUMBER 2: *FROGS – VERSES 1-15 THE *LORD WARNS *PHARAOH – V...
_[Exodus 8:20]_ וַ יַּ֤עַשׂ יְהוָה֙ כֵּ֔ן וַ...
THE FOURTH PLAGUE. Exodus 8:20. When the third plague had died away, when the sense of reaction and exhaustion had replaced agitation and distress, and when perhaps the fear grew strong that at any m...
THE PLAGUES OF LICE AND OF FLIES Exodus 8:16 Exodus 8:22 gives us the clue to these successive visitations-“To the end that thou mayest know.” The Egyptians worshiped the river from which the frogs c...
Before the second plague Pharaoh received an opportunity to repent. He was warned of the approach of the plague. The warning had no effect. In the first plague magicians had produced apparently like r...
_The Lord, without the intervention of the rod, lest any inherent power might be supposed to rest in it. (Menochius) --- Corrupted, ravaged; men and beasts being destroyed by their bite or sting. (Psa...
Psalms 78:45...
There is hardly a book of the Old Testament that stands out in more decided contrast with the book of Genesis than the one which follows it most closely. And this is the more striking, because God emp...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 5 THROUGH 13. At the news of the goodness of God, the people adore Him; but the struggle against the power of evil is another matter. Satan will not let the p...
AND THE LORD DID SO,.... And this he did immediately of himself without any means; not by the rod of Aaron, to let the Egyptians see that there was nothing in that rod, that it had no magic virtue in...
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 swar...
Pharaoh was early at his false devotions to the river; and shall we be for more sleep and more slumber, when any service to the Lord is to be done? The Egyptians and the Hebrews were to be marked in t...
1 Frogges are sent. 8 Pharaoh sueth to Moses, 12 and Moses by prayer remoueth them away. 16 The dust is turned into lice, which the Magicians could not doe. 20 The swarmes of flies. 25 Pharaoh in...
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...
THE PLAGUE OF THE FLIES...
D. THE BLOOD-SUCKING GAD-FLY Exodus 8:16-28 [Exodus 8:20-32] 16 [20] And Jehovah said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh: lo, he cometh forth to the water; and say unt...
LAGUE NO.2 -- FROGS (vs.1-15) Again God gives the opportunity to Pharaoh to respond to His demand to let Israel go (v.1). But Moses was to accompany this with the warnings that, if Pharaoh refused,...
CORRUPTED: Or, destroyed...
20-32 Pharaoh was early at his false devotions to the river; and shall we be for more sleep and more slumber, when any service to the Lord is to be done? The Egyptians and the Hebrews were to be mark...
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 GRIEV...
Exodus 8:24 LORD H3068 did H6213 (H8799) Thick H3515 swarms H6157 came H935 (H8799) house H1004 Pharaoh...
THE FOURTH PLAGUE - THE PLAGUE OF SWARMS OF FLYING INSECTS (EXODUS 8:20). The first series of three plagues being behind them we now come to the second series of three. While the first three have been...
CONTENTS: Plagues of frogs, lice, flies. Pharaoh's compromising offer. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Pharaoh, Aaron. CONCLUSION: If God be against us, all creatures can be made to be at war with us. God c...
Exodus 8:3. _The river shall bring forth frogs._ The season was now approaching for the frogs to leave the pools, lakes, and river. God preserved and strengthened the young, or tadpoles of this amphib...
_Swarms of flies._ THE PLAGUE OF FLIES; OR, AN EXCEPTIONAL METHOD OF THE DIVINE ADMINISTRATION IN THE AFFAIRS OF THIS LIFE I. It is a general rule of the Divine administration that the good and sad...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 8:24. Swarms] Heb. הערב “a species of fly, the gad-fly” (Ges.) “a scorpion-like and stinging” animal, “a beetle, scarabæus” (Fü.); “prob. the gad-fly, so called from its sucki...
EXPOSITION THE FOURTH PLAGUE. It has been noticed that—setting apart the last and most terrible of the plagues, which stands as it were by itself—the remainder divide themselves into three groups of...
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. [So the third demand now, actually the fourth demand.] And if you refuse to...
there Exodus 8:21 Psalms 78:45 Psalms 105:31 the land. How intolerable a plague of flies can prove, is Exodus 8:14 corrupted. or destroyed...
FAITH AS EXEMPLIFIED IN MOSES Selections from Exodus 3:1; Exodus 6:1; Exodus 7:1; Exodus 8:1;...
There came a grievous swarm of flies — The prince of the power of the air has gloried in being Beel — zebub, the god of flies; but here it is proved that even in that he is a pretender, and an usurper...