Exodus 8:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:

Exodus 8:2 —

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Psalms 78:45
He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
Exodus 9:2
For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,
Exodus 7:14
And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart is hardened, he refuseth to let the people go.
Revelation 16:13-14
And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. …
Psalms 105:30
Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the chambers of their kings.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-15)

Pharaoh is here first threatened and then plagued with frogs, as afterwards, in this chapter, with lice and flies, little despicable inconsiderable animals, and yet by their vast numbers rendered sore plagues to the Egyptians. God could have plagued them with lions, or bears, or wolves, or with vultures or other birds of prey; but he chose to do it by these contemptible instruments. 1. That he mig…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

2. I will smite all thy borders with frogs--Those animals, though the natural spawn of the river, and therefore objects familiar to the people, were on this occasion miraculously multiplied to an amazing extent, and it is probable that the ova of the frogs, which had been previously deposited in the mire and marshes, were miraculously brought to perfection at once.