Exodus 7:19

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 7:19

The “streams” mean the natural branches of the Nile in Lower Egypt. The word “rivers” should rather be “canals”; they were of great extent, running parallel to the Nile, and communicating with it by sluices, which were opened at the rise, and closed at the subsidence of the inundation. The word rendered “ponds” refers either to natural fountains, or more probably to cisterns or tanks found in every town and village. The “pools”, literally “gathering of waters,” were the reservoirs, always large... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 7:19

Exodus 7:19. Upon their streams, &c., both in vessels of wood and vessels of stone “To what purpose this minuteness?” says the last-mentioned author. “May not the meaning be that the water of the Nile should not only look red and nauseous, like blood, in the river, but in their vessels too, and that no method of purifying it should take place, but, whether drunk out of vessels of wood or out of vessels of stone, by means of which they were wont to purge the Nile water, it should be the... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Exodus 7:14-25

Nine plagues (7:14-10:29)The timing, intensity and extent of these plagues show clearly that they were sent by God. It also seems fairly clear that God used the physical characteristics of the Nile valley to produce them.When the first plague struck, it polluted all the water in the Nile and in the irrigation canals and reservoirs connected with it, resulting in all the fish dying. As the dead fish floated to the banks they would force the frogs out of the water, thereby producing the second... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Exodus 7:19

the LORD spake . See note on Exodus 6:10 , and compare note on Exodus 3:7 . streams = canals. rivers = the seven streams of the Delta. ponds = lakes where reeds grew. pools = reservoirs. vessels of wood , &c. Genitive of material. Figure of speech Metony my (of Cause). App-6 . Hebrew "woods and stones", put for [channels] made of wood [and canals] made of stone. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Exodus 7:19-25

PLAGUE I"And Jehovah said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod and stretch out thy hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their ponds of water, that they may become blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both on vessels of wood, and vessels of stone. And Moses and Aaron did so, as Jehovah commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Exodus 7:19

Exodus 7:19. And the Lord spake, &c.— Pharaoh despising the Divine threatening, the Lord orders Moses to put it into execution: and Aaron is accordingly commanded to stretch out his hand upon the waters of Egypt; that is, not to stretch out his hand over all the waters of Egypt; but to stretch it out in token of the Divine malediction which was immediately to operate upon the waters. Upon the waters, &c.— Travellers tell us, that it is common for the Nile-water to turn red and become... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 7:14-19

4. The first three plagues 7:14-8:19Psalms 78:43 places the scene of the plagues in northern Egypt near Zoan.The plagues were penal; God sent them to punish Pharaoh for his refusal to obey God and to move him to obey Yahweh. They involved natural occurrences rather than completely unknown phenomena. At various times of the year gnats, flies, frogs, etc., were a problem to the Egyptians. Even the pollution of the Nile, darkness, and death were common to the Egyptians.Evidence that the plagues... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 7:14-25

The water turned to blood (the first plague) 7:14-25The first mighty act of God serves in the narrative as a paradigm of the nine plagues that follow. Striking the Nile with the rod suggested dominion over creation and all the gods of Egyptian mythology. The Egyptians linked many of their gods with the life-giving force of the Nile. The tenth plague is unique in that it is both a part of the narrative of Exodus as a whole and is a mighty act of God in itself. [Note: Durham, p. 95.] Evidently... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 7:1-25

The Rod of Moses turned into a Serpent. The First Plague1. 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 this they may foretell His judgments and predict the future; but prediction is a secondary feature of prophecy, and is not contained in the original and proper sense of the word in which it is used here, where Aaron is called the prophet or mouthpiece of Moses. To prophesy sometimes means to declare... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Exodus 7:14-21

THE FIRST PLAGUE.(14-21) The water turned to blood.—Moses had already been empowered to turn water into blood on a small scale (Exodus 4:9), and had exhibited his power before his own people (Exodus 4:30). But the present miracle is different. (1) It is to be done on the largest possible scale; (2) in the sight of all the Egyptians; and (3) not as a sign, but as a “judgment.” All the Nile water—whether in the main river, or its branches, or the canals derived from it, or the pools formed by its... read more

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