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Exodus 8:3

in Exodus 8

The Nile will teem with frogs, and they will come into your palace and up to your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and your people, and into your ovens and kneading bowls.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and the river shall swarm with frogs, which shall go up and come into thy house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneading-troughs:

KJV

And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs:

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This verse in Exodus 8

Commentary

6 notes on this verse
Into thine house - This appears to have been special to the plague, as such. It was especially the visitation which would be felt by the scrupulously-clean Egyptians. Kneadingtroughs - Not dough, as in the margin. See Exo 12:34.

This site's exposition

the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly

on Exodus 8:3-4

The Nile that Egypt lived on is made to breed the plague, as it was made to run blood at 7:20. The frogs are tracked from the water into the bedchamber, the bed, the ovens and the kneadingtroughs, so the reach of the thing is measured by naming the places where a household is private. Verse 4 puts Pharaoh himself first, ahead of his people and his servants, so the king is the first body the frogs climb.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

God's curse upon a man will pursue him wherever he goes, and lie heavily upon him whatever he does. There is no avoiding divine judgments when they invade with commission. Pharaoh not regarding the alarm, nor being at all inclined to yield to the summons, Aaron is ordered to draw out the forces, and with his outstretched arm and rod to give the signal of battle.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

bedchamber . . . bed--mats strewed on the floor as well as more sumptuous divans of the rich. ovens--holes made in the ground and the sides of which are plastered with mortar. kneading-troughs--Those used in Egypt were bowls of wicker or rush work.

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A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

The river shall bring forth frogs abundantly - The river Nile, which was an object of their adoration, was here one of the instruments of their punishment. The expression, bring forth abundantly, not only shows the vast numbers of those animals, which should now infest the land, but it seems also to imply that all the spawn or ova of those animals which were already in the river and marshes, should be brought miraculously to a state of perfection. We may suppose that the animals were already in an embryo existence, but multitudes of them would not have come to a state of perfection had it not been for this miraculous interference. This supposition will appear the more natural when it is considered that the Nile was remarkable for breeding frogs, and such other animals as are principally engendered in such marshy places as must be left in the vicinity of the Nile after its annual inundations. Into thine ovens - In various parts of the east, instead of what we call ovens they dig a hole in the ground, in which they insert a kind of earthen pot, which having sufficiently heated, they stick their cakes to the inside, and when baked remove them and supply their places with others, and so on. To find such places full of frogs when they came to heat them, in order to make their bread, must be both disgusting and distressing in the extreme.

The words behind it

15 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְשָׁרַ֣ץand it will swarm

    vesharatzH8317 →

  • הַיְאֹר֮the River

    hayorH2975 →65 times

  • צְפַרְדְּעִים֒frogs

    tzefardeimH6854 →13 times

  • וְעָלוּ֙and they will go up

    vealuH5927 →890 times

  • וּבָ֣אוּand they will go

    uvauH935 →2568 times

  • בְּבֵיתֶ֔ךָin house your

    beveitekhaH1004 →2046 times

  • וּבַחֲדַ֥רand in [the] chamber of

    uvachadarH2315 →

  • מִשְׁכָּבְךָ֖lying down your

    mishkavekhaH4904 →

  • וְעַל־and on

    veal-H5921 →5755 times

  • מִטָּתֶ֑ךָbed your

    mitatekhaH4296 →

  • וּבְבֵ֤יתand in [the] house of

    uveveitH1004 →2046 times

  • עֲבָדֶ֙יךָ֙servants your

    ʾavadeikhaH5650 →799 times

  • וּבְעַמֶּ֔ךָand on people your

    uveamekhaH5971 →1873 times

  • וּבְתַנּוּרֶ֖יךָand in ovens your

    uvetanureikhaH8574 →

  • וּבְמִשְׁאֲרוֹתֶֽיךָ׃and in kneading troughs your

    uvemisharoteikhaH4863 →

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

6 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Exodus 10:6They will fill your houses and the houses of all your officials and every Egyptian—something neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen since the day they came into this land.’” Then Moses turned and left Pharaoh’s presence.4 worksPsalms 105:30Their land teemed with frogs, even in their royal chambers.3 worksPsalms 107:40He pours out contempt on the nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.3 worksExodus 12:34So the people took their dough before it was leavened, carrying it on their shoulders in kneading bowls wrapped in clothing.2 worksExodus 8:11The frogs will depart from you and your houses and your officials and your people; they will remain only in the Nile.”2 worksGenesis 1:21So God created the great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters teemed according to their kinds, and every bird of flight after its kind. And God saw that it was good.2 works

The walk

3 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Psalms 105:30

    Their land teemed with frogs, even in their royal chambers.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 8:3–14

      The Nile will teem with frogs, and they will come into your palace and up to your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and your people, and into your…

    • Revelation 16:13–14

      And I saw three unclean spirits that looked like frogs coming out of the mouths of the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet.

    • Psalms 78:45

      He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.

About Exodus

The Giving of the Law on Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Giving of the Law on Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Exodus: the study guide →Read Exodus 8 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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