Exodus 7:17
know <03045> [thou shalt.]
5 5:2 6:7 1Sa 17:46,47 1Ki 20:28 2Ki 19:19 Ps 9:16 83:18
Eze 29:9 30:8,19 32:15 38:23 39:28 Da 4:17,32,37 5:21,23 [All]
turned <02015> [and they.]
Exodus 7:20
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.
