Exodus 7:14-24 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 7:14-25

Here is the first of the ten plagues, the turning of the water into blood, which was, 1. A dreadful plague, and very grievous. The very sight of such vast rolling streams of blood, pure blood no doubt, florid and high-colored, could not but strike a horror upon people: much more afflictive were the consequences of it. Nothing more common than water: so wisely has Providence ordered it, and so kindly, that that which is so needful and serviceable to the comfort of human life should be cheap,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 7:14

And the Lord said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart is hardened ,.... Or "heavy" F3 כבד "grave", Montanus, Drusius. So Ainsworth. , dull and stupid, stiff and inflexible, cannot lift up his heart, or find in his heart to obey the will of God: he refuseth to let the people go ; which was an instance and proof of the hardness and heaviness of his heart, on which the above miracle had made no impression, to regard what God by his ambassadors had required of him. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 7:15

Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning ,.... The next morning, a time in which the mind is most composed and sedate, and fit to attend to what may be suggested: lo, he goeth out unto the water ; the river Nile, either to take his morning's walk, and to refresh himself at the waterside, as the Jerusalem Targum; or to observe divinations upon the water, as a magician, as the Targum of Jonathan. So in the Talmud F4 T. Bab. Moed. Katon, fol. 18. 1. it is said, that the Pharaoh in the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 7:16

And thou shalt say unto him ,.... Upon meeting him: the Lord God of the Hebrews hath sent me unto thee ; still appearing in the character of the ambassador of Jehovah, the God of the children of Israel: saying, let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness ; the demand is once more renewed, before any punishment is inflicted for refusal, that the patience and forbearance of God might be the more visible, and his judgments appear the more righteous when inflicted, as well... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 7:17

Thus saith the Lord, in this thou shalt know that I am the Lord ,.... By the following instance of his power and vengeance: behold, I will smite with the rod that is in my hand ; which though in the hand of Moses, Exodus 7:18 yet he being his ambassador, and representing him, is said to be in the hand of the Lord; and with this he threatens to smite upon the waters which are in the river ; the river Nile, and the canals thereof: and they shall be turned to blood ; and if this... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 7:18

And the fish that is in the river shall die ,.... Their element being changed, and they not able to live in any other but water: and the river shall stink ; with the blood, into which it should be congealed, and with the putrefied bodies of fishes floating in it: and the Egyptians shall loath to drink of the water of the river ; the very colour of it, looking like blood, would set them against it, and create a nausea in them; or "shall be weary" F8 נלאו "delassabuntur",... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 7:19

And the Lord spake unto Moses ,.... Pharaoh still being obstinate, and refusing to let the people go: say unto Aaron, take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt ; upon all of them in general, what were in the river Nile, or derived from it, as follows: upon their streams ; the seven streams of the river Nile; see Gill on Isaiah 11:15 . upon their rivers ; the canals that were cut out of the river Nile, for the watering of their fields and gardens, for... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 7:20

And Moses and Aaron did so, as the Lord commanded ,.... Moses delivered the rod to Aaron, who took it and went to the water side: and he lift up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river ; or "in that river" F9 ביאר εν τω ποταμω Sept. "in eo rivo", Junius and Tremellius, Piscator. , the river Nile, on the brink of which Pharaoh then stood: in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants ; his nobles and courtiers who tended him in his walk to the water;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 7:21

And the fish that was in the river died ,.... Which was a full proof that the conversion of it into blood was real; for had it been only in appearance, or the water of the river had only the colour of blood, and looked like it, but was not really so, it would not have affected the fishes, they would have lived as well as before; and this plague was the greater affliction to the Egyptians, not as it affected their drink but their food, fish Numbers 11:5 being what the common people chiefly... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 7:22

And the magicians of Egypt did so with their enchantments ,.... Who were either in company with Pharaoh and his nobles, or were immediately sent for to try their art, and confront Moses and Aaron with it; and who very probably got a little water in a vessel, and by some juggling trick imposing upon, and deceiving the sight of Pharaoh and his servants, made it look like blood; and the devil might help them to a sufficient quantity of blood, and discolour the water with it, and make it appear... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 7:14-25

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 7:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 7:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 7:16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 7:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 7:18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 7:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 7:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 7:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 7:22

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