6And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.
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He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the chambers of their kings.
Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.
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.
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…
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