The frogs shall go away from you and your houses and your servants and your people. They shall be left only in the Nile.”
God chose contemptible frogs to strike down a haughty king, magnifying His power over all creation and humbling Pharaoh's pride. What a mortification for a monarch to be forced to his knees by creatures a child can master, yet whose numbers made all his chariots and horsemen helpless.
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Commenting on Exodus 8:1-15
And Moses and Aaron went from Pharaoh,.... To the place where they used to pray to the Lord, and meet with him, and receive messages from him; this they did the same day the plague was inflicted, the day before the morrow came when the frogs were to be removed: and Moses cried unto the Lord: prayed unto him with great fervency, and with a...
Pharaoh delayed until the next day, doubting so great a work could be done at once. Moses interceded earnestly, and God took the plague away; the frogs died and gathered in heaps that reeked across the land. Yet when Pharaoh caught his breath and felt relief, he hardened his heart and broke his word entirely.
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Commenting on Exodus 8:10-15