* And I.
   To represent the power, rapaciousness, and cruelty of Pharaoh,
   he had been compared to a fierce young lion, and also to an
   immense, overgrown sea-monster, or crocodile; and here it is
   predicted that God would cast a net over him, by which many
   companies of people should drag him out of his rivers, and
   cast him into the open field, mountains, valleys, etc., to be
   devoured by birds and beasts of prey; that is, his ruin would
   be complete, and attended with terrible miseries to the
   Egyptians, and afford a large booty to their enemies.