Exodus 7:17-21
thou shalt Exod 7:5, Exod 5:2, Exod 6:7; 1Sam 17:46-47; 1Kgs 20:28; 2Kgs 19:19; Ps 9:16, Ps 83:18; Ezek 29:9, Ezek 30:8, Ezek 30:19, Ezek 32:15, Ezek 38:23, Ezek 39:28; Dan 4:17, Dan 4:32, Dan 4:37, Dan 5:21, Dan 5:23 and they Exod 1:22, Exod 4:9; Ps 78:44, Ps 105:29; Rev 8:8, Rev 16:3-6 the fish Exod 7:21 Egyptians "The water of Egypt," says Abbe Mascrier, "is so delicious, that one would not wish the heat to be less, or to be delivered from the sensation of thirst. The Turks find it so exquisite, that they excite themselves to drink of it by eating salt." "A person," adds Mr. Harmer, "who never before heard of the deliciousness of the Nile water, and of the large quantities which on that account are drunk of it, will, I am sure, find an energy in those words of Moses to Pharaoh, the Egyptians shall loathe to drink of the water of the river, which he never did before." shall loathe Exod 7:24; Num 11:20, Num 21:5 stretch Exod 8:5-6, Exod 8:16, Exod 9:22-23, Exod 9:33, Exod 10:12, Exod 10:21, Exod 14:21, Exod 14:26 their pools Heb. gathering of their waters, Gen 1:10 he lifted Exod 17:5-6, Exod 17:9-12; Num 20:8-12 all the waters As the Nile was held sacred by the Egyptians, as well as the animals it contained, to which they annually sacrificed a girl, or as others say, both a boy and girl, God might have designed this plague as a punishment for such idolatry and cruelty; and to shew them the baseness of those elements which they reverenced, and the insufficiency of the gods in which they trusted. All the punishments brought upon them bore a strict analogy to their crimes. Exod 7:17-18; Ps 78:44, Ps 105:29; John 2:9-11; Rev 8:8 Exod 7:18; Rev 8:9; The first miracle of Christ turned water into wine, the first plague upon Egypt turned all their water into blood.
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