* he lifted.
17:5,6,9-12 Nu 20:8-12
* 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.
17,18 Ps 78:44 105:29 Joh 2:9-11 Re 8:8
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