The Second Plague: Frogs

Exodus 8

1 1 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, 'Thus says the Lord, "Let my people go, that n they may serve me. 2 But if you o refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your country with p frogs. 3 The Nile shall swarm with frogs that shall come up into your house and into q your bedroom and on your bed and into the houses of your servants and your people, 2 and into your ovens and your kneading bowls. 4 The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your servants."'" 5 3 And the Lord said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, r 'Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the canals and over the pools, and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt!'" 6 So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and s the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt. 7 But t the magicians did the same by their secret arts and made frogs come up on the land of Egypt.

8 Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron and said, u "Plead with the Lord to take away the frogs from me and from my people, and v I will let the people go to sacrifice to the Lord." 9 Moses said to Pharaoh, "Be pleased to command me when u I am to plead for you and for your servants and for your people, that the frogs be cut off from you and your houses and be left only in the Nile." 10 And he said, "Tomorrow." Moses said, "Be it as you say, so w that you may know that x there is no one like the Lord our God. 11 The frogs shall go away from you and your houses and your servants and your people. They shall be left only in the Nile." 12 So Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to the Lord about the frogs, as he had agreed with Pharaoh. 4 13 And the Lord did according to the word of Moses. The frogs died out in the houses, the courtyards, and the fields. 14 And they gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank. 15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was a y respite, he z hardened his heart and would not listen to them, as the Lord had said.

  1. Cross References
    Exodus 8:20
    Then the Lord said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning and present yourself to Pharaoh, as he goes out to the water, and say to him, 'Thus says the Lord, "Let my people go, that they may serve me.
    Exodus 3:12
    He said, "But I will be with you, and this shall be the sign for you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.
    Exodus 3:18
    And they will listen to your voice, and you and the elders of Israel shall go to the king of Egypt and say to him, 'The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us; and now, please let us go a three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.
  2. Cross References
    Exodus 7:14
    Then the Lord said to Moses, "Pharaoh's heart is hardened; he refuses to let the people go.
    Exodus 9:2
    For if you refuse to let them go and still hold them.
  3. Cross References
    Revelation 16:13
    And I saw, coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs.
  4. Cross References
    Psalms 105:30
    Their land swarmed with frogs, even in the chambers of their kings.
  5. Cross References
    Exodus 7:19
    And the Lord said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, their canals, and their ponds, and all their pools of water, so that they may become blood, and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, even in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.'
  6. Cross References
    Psalms 78:45
    He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.
    Psalms 105:30
    Their land swarmed with frogs, even in the chambers of their kings.
  7. Cross References
    Exodus 7:11
    Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the sorcerers, and they, the magicians of Egypt, also did the same by their secret arts.
  8. Cross References
    Exodus 8:28
    So Pharaoh said, "I will let you go to sacrific...
    Exodus 8:30
    So Moses went out from Pharaoh and prayed to th...
    Exodus 9:28
    Plead with the Lord, for there has been enough ...
    Exodus 10:17 - 18
    Now therefore, forgive my sin, please, only thi...
    Numbers 21:7
    And the people came to Moses and said, "We have...
    1 Kings 13:6
    And the king said to the man of God, "Entreat n...
    Acts 8:24
    And Simon answered, "Pray for me to the Lord, t...
  9. Cross References
    Exodus 8:25 - 28
    Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron and said, "Go, sacrifice to your God within the land.
    Exodus 10:8
    So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh. And he said to them, "Go, serve the Lord your God. But which ones are to go?
    Exodus 10:24
    Then Pharaoh called Moses and said, "Go, serve the Lord ; your little ones also may go with you; only let your flocks and your herds remain behind.
    Exodus 12:31 - 32
    Then he summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, "Up, go out from among my people, both you and the people of Israel; and go, serve the Lord, as you have said.
  10. Cross References
    Exodus 8:8
    Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron and said, "Plead with the Lord to take away the frogs from me and from my people, and I will let the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.
  11. Cross References
    Exodus 8:22
    But on that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, where my people dwell, so that no swarms of flies shall be there, that you may know that I am the Lord in the midst of the earth.
    Exodus 7:17
    Thus says the Lord, "By this you shall know that I am the Lord : behold, with the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water that is in the Nile, and it shall turn into blood.
  12. Cross References
    Exodus 9:14
    For this time I will send all my plagues on you...
    Deuteronomy 33:26
    There is none like God, O Jeshurun, who rides t...
    2 Samuel 7:22
    Therefore you are great, O Lord God. For there ...
    1 Chronicles 17:20
    There is none like you, O Lord, and there is no...
    Psalms 86:8
    There is none like you among the gods, O Lord, ...
    Isaiah 46:9
    Remember the former things of old; for I am God...
    Jeremiah 10:6 - 7
    There is none like you, O Lord ; you are great,...
  13. Cross References
    Ecclesiastes 8:11
    Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil.
  14. Cross References
    Exodus 8:32
    But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and did not let the people go.
    Exodus 7:14
    Then the Lord said to Moses, "Pharaoh's heart is hardened; he refuses to let the people go.
    Exodus 9:7
    And Pharaoh sent, and behold, not one of the livestock of Israel was dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people go.
    Exodus 9:34
    But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, he sinned yet again and hardened his heart, he and his servants.
    Exodus 10:1
    Then the Lord said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may show these signs of mine among them.
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