Learn how the ten plagues pronounced upon Egypt by the Lord, through His prophet Moses, correspond with the ten popular Egyptian gods of the time.
The contrast of Israel’s deliverance and Egypt’s condemnation is repeated over and over in later ages. The total separation, the antithesis between Israelite and Egyptian is stressed in v. 7 of ch. 11. B. The theological significance. That Egypt’s gods (the animistic worship of idols) ...
Pharaoh lets the people go, as Moses helps the prizes fall in the thrilling new Plagues of Egypt. Progressive jackpots, stacks wilds and respins add to the epic wins.
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the ground,’ and throughout the land of Egypt the dust will become gnats.” They did this, and when Aaron stretched out his hand with the staff and struck the dust of the ground, gnats came...
The ten Plagues of Egypt described in the Bible were central to the liberation of the Jewish people from the oppression of the Egyptians. The succession of disasters demoralised the Egyptians and were seen as a victory for Jewish monotheistic beliefs. In this essay, natural explanations for most...
Some of the Egyptians, fearing Moses’s prophecy, slept that night in the houses of the Israelites. But the death-stroke found them, and the Israelite awakening, found an Egyptian’s corpse beside him. Great was the distress in Egypt. Pharaoh called to Moses and Aaron, and said, “Arise...
Each plague targeted one of the gods from the Egyptian pantheon and, one by one, Pharoah watched the pillars of his power turn to ash. This pattern fulfills a specific promise that God made through Moses to Israel and Pharaoh: “I will surely pass through all the land of Egypt and on ...
Turning the river to blood isn't just a neat trick; it's an attempt to undermine the way Egypt works. The chapter is very careful to tell us that even the tributaries are turned to blood: "Over its rivers, its canals, and its ponds, and all its pools of water […] may become bl...
--"There was a darkness in all the land of Egypt three days;" while "all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings." It has been illustrated by reference to the samoom and the hot wind of the Khamaseen. The former is a sand-storm which occurs in the desert, seldom ...