Exodus 8:5-30

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 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 ceremonies, as the magicians did, in his addresses to God, which would require some considerable time. read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 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 of triumph. The Hebrew verbs to put and to give are frequently exchanged, as appears by comparing 1 Kings 10:9, with 2 Chronicles 9:8; and Isaiah 42:1, with Matthew 12:18. Moses cried unto the Lord:... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 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,Genesis 43:34; Exodus 18:12; Exodus 25:2; Proverbs 25:22. read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 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. read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 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 what is said of the locusts, Exodus 10:14, was true of these, that they were much more loathsome and troublesome than ordinary. read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 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. read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 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 plagues that the magicians did so, it is not to be understood that they really did the same thing, but that they endeavoured to do so, and that they did something which looked like it. It was as easy for... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 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 all men, and idols, and devils. This they said, lest they should be thought inferior to Moses and Aaron in magical art. But hereby they own the sovereign God to be on Israel’s side; and yet, like the... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 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. read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 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. Or rather, 2. Of Goshen; the words being properly thus rendered, that I the Lord am in the midst of that land, to wit, the land of Goshen now spoken of, to defend and preserve it. For God is said to be... read more

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