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Hawker's Poor man's commentary

Exodus 7:24

As the Israelites had been compelled by Pharaoh to seek straw where there was none, so the Egyptians are now punished in seeking water where there was none.

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    4. THE NINE PLAGUES AND THE TENTH JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED CHAPTER 7:14-25 The First Plague _ 1. The plague announced (Exodus 7:14)_ 2. The judgment executed (Exodus 7:20) Nine judgment plagues follow, a...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EXODUS 7:14 TO EXODUS 12:36. THE TEN PLAGUES. How deeply this series of events imprinted itself on the mind and heart of the nation is shown by the fulness with which the three sources report them. J...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    1°. WATER TURNED INTO BLOOD (Exodus 7:14 a J; Exodus 7:15 b E_ r_; Exodus 7:16 a J; Exodus 7:17 b, with the rod. hand, E;...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    ROUND ABOUT: i.e. on either side of....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Exodus 7:14 to Exodus 11:5 _The first nine Plagues_ The narrative of the Plagues, like that of the preceding Chapter s, is composite. The details of the analysis depend partly upon literary criteria...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 7 And Je-ho-vah said unto Mo-ses. See, I have made thee as God to Pha-raoh; and Aar-on thy brother shall be thy prophet. (2) Thou shalt speak all that I command thee; an...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND ALL THE EGYPTIANS DIGGED ROUND ABOUT THE RIVER FOR WATER TO DRINK; FOR THEY COULD NOT DRINK OF THE WATER OF THE RIVER._ All the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink. The pol...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE ROD OF MOSES TURNED INTO A SERPENT. THE FIRST PLAGUE 1. A god to Pharaoh] see on Exodus 4:16. THY PROPHET] A prophet is a spokesman. The prophets of God are those who declare His will. In doing th...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    EXODUS: ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION THE *ISRAELITES LEAVE EGYPT EXODUS CHAPTER S 1 TO 18 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 7 V1 Then the *LORD replied to Moses. ‘Listen! Your brother, Aaron, w...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    ALL THE EGYPTIANS DIGGED ROUND ABOUT THE RIVER. — Wells may be sunk in any part of the alluvium, and will always yield water, which is, however, brackish and unpalatable. This water is, no doubt, deri...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יַּחְפְּר֧וּ כָל ־מִצְרַ֛יִם סְבִיבֹ֥ת הַ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE FIRST PLAGUE. Exodus 7:14. It was perhaps when the Nile was rising, and Pharaoh was coming to the bank, in pomp of state, to make official observation of its progress, on which the welfare of the...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    SIGN OF THE WATERS TURNED TO BLOOD Exodus 7:14 Satan will mimic God's work up to a point. We are told that Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses; but even then Moses' rod swallowed their rods. They were...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    We have here the record of God's answer to Moses' difficulty. He reaffirmed Himself and charged His servant to speak to Pharaoh the things commanded. Moreover, He foretold the result of the delivery o...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    There is hardly a book of the Old Testament that stands out in more decided contrast with the book of Genesis than the one which follows it most closely. And this is the more striking, because God emp...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 5 THROUGH 13. At the news of the goodness of God, the people adore Him; but the struggle against the power of evil is another matter. Satan will not let the p...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND ALL THE EGYPTIANS DIGGED ROUND ABOUT THE RIVER,.... On each side of it, in order to get clear water; and Aben Ezra thinks the Hebrews also, who were affected with this, and the two following plagu...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And all the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river. Ver. 24. _Digged round about._] If by drawing the waters they might purify t...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _The Egyptians digged round about the river for water_ Josephus says, they lost their labour, and found only blood there: but if they found water, or water less bloody, it is not material to us, as it...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Moses is encouraged to go to Pharaoh. 7 His age. 8 His rod is turned into a Serpent. 11 The sorcerers do the like. 13 Pharaohs heart is hardened. 14 Gods message to Pharaoh. 19 The riuer is tu...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And all the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink; they quickly dug wells in the hope that the underground springs were still pure or that the seepage water had not turned into blo...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE PLAGUE OF BLOOD...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    SECOND SECTION The miracles of Moses, or the result of the nine Egyptian Plagues, preliminary to the last. Pharaoh’s alternate repentance and obduracy Exodus 7:8 to Exodus 10:29 A. MOSES’ MIRACULOUS...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    GOD'S ANSWER TO MOSES (vs.1-7) Though Moses had protested that he was of uncircumcised lips, God assured him that He was making Moses a god to Pharaoh, therefore that Pharaoh would not be able to tot...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    14-25 Here is the first of the ten plagues, the turning of the water into blood. It was a dreadful plague. The sight of such vast rolling streams of blood could not but strike horror. Nothing is more...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    It is not much material to us, whether they lost their labour, and found only blood there, as Josephus affirms; or whether they succeeded and found water there, which seems more probable, because thes...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    11 These five Chapter s form one distinct section, the contents of which may be distributed into the three following divisions, namely, the ten judgements from the hand of Jehovah; the resistance of...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Exodus 7:24 Egyptians H4714 dug H2658 (H8799) around H5439 river H2975 water H4325 drink H8354 (H8800) could...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    (For an introduction to the plagues, see the Chapter Comments). THE FIRST PLAGUE - THE NILE IS TURNED INTO ‘BLOOD' (EXODUS 7:14). a Yahweh says that Pharaoh's heart is stubborn so that he will not...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Contest with Pharaoh. First plague. Water turned to blood. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron, Pharaoh, magician. CONCLUSION: We see God's almighty power, the unstability of all things under th...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Exodus 7:1. _I have made thee a god._ אלהים _Elohim._ The Chaldaic renders it תחי ליה לרב Thou shalt be to him for a prince. The divine sense of the word is, I have invested thee with Godlike powers t...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _They shall be turned to blood._ THE RIVER WHICH WAS TURNED INTO BLOOD I. The river. Has received various names. “The river of Egypt” (Genesis 15:18); Sihor (Job 13:3); Shihor (1 Chronicles 13:5). Di...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 7:24 The description of the Egyptian people digging for water (v. Exodus 7:24) and the time frame of SEVEN FULL DAYS (v....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 7:14_ THE RIVER TURNED INTO BLOOD; OR, MAN’S CHIEF PLEASURE AND PRIDE MADE THE MEDIUM OF DIVINE RETRIBUTION I. THAT DIVINE RETRIBUTIONS ARE SENT WHEN OTHER...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION Necessity is the mother of invention. Finding the Nile water continue utterly undrinkable, the Egyptians bethought themselves of a means of obtaining water to which they never had recourse...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    And the Lord said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet. Thou shalt speak all that I command thee: and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Phara...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    for they Exodus 7:18...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    FAITH AS EXEMPLIFIED IN MOSES Selections from Exodus 3:1; Exodus 6:1; Exodus 7:1; Exodus 8:1;...

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