6And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.
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I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.
And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the water of the river.
Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-17)Though the land of Egypt had of old been a house of bondage to the people of God, where they had been ruled with rigour, yet among the unbelieving Jews there still remained much of the humour of their fathers, who said, Let us make us a captain and return into Egypt . Upon all occasions they trusted to Egypt for help (Isa. 30:2), and thither they fled, in disobedience to God’s express command, whe…
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