Exodus 7:1-21
See <07200> [See.]
God <0430> [a god.]
harden <07185> [And I.]
multiply <07235> [multiply.]
will <05414> [that I.]
regiments <06635> [armies.]
great <01419> [by great.]
<04714> [Egyptians.]
extend <05186> [I stretch.]
<05414> [Shew.]
Take <03947> [Take.]
snake <08577> [a serpent.]
Lord <03068> [as the Lord.]
snake <08577> [it became.]
wise men <02450> [wise men.]
sorcerers <03784> [sorcerers.]
{Mechashshaphim,} probably from the Arabic {kashapha,} to discover, reveal, signifies diviners, or those who pretended to reveal futurity, to discover things lost, or to find hidden treasures.
did <06213> [they also.]
secret arts <03858> [enchantments.]
By the word {lahatim,} from {lahat,} to burn, may be meant such incantations as required lustral fires, fumigations, etc.
Aaron's <0175> [but Aaron's.]
Pharaoh's <06547> [Pharaoh's.]
refuses <03985> [he refuseth.]
out <03318> [he goeth.]
staff <04294> [the rod.]
Lord <03068> [The Lord.]
people <05971> [Let my.]
serve <05647> [serve.]
know <03045> [thou shalt.]
turned <02015> [and they.]
Fish <01710> [the fish.]
<04714> [Egyptians.]
"The water of Egypt," says Abb‚ 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.]
stretch <05186> [stretch.]
reservoirs <04723> [their pools. Heb. gathering of their waters.]
raised <07311> [he lifted.]
water ................... water <04325> [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.
The first miracle of Christ turned water into wine, the first plague upon Egypt turned all their water into blood.
