Exo 1:16, 7:19-21, Psa 105:25, Pro 1:16, 4:16, 27:4, Act 7:19, Rev 16:4-6 | TSK | STEP | and see them.Or, rather, "and ye see them by the stone-troughs;" for so {ovnayim,} from {aven,} a stone, seems to signify (compare ch. 7:19), in which they washed the new-born infants. See this subject fully illustrated in Fragments to Calmet, Nos. 312, 313. then ye shall.

Exodus 1:16

and see them.Or, rather, "and ye see them by the stone-troughs;" for so {ovnayim,} from {aven,} a stone, seems to signify (compare ch. 7:19), in which they washed the new-born infants. See this subject fully illustrated in Fragments to Calmet, Nos. 312, 313.

then ye shall.

22; Mt 21:38; Re 12:4

Exodus 7:19-21

stretch.

8:5,6,16; 9:22,23,33; 10:12,21; 14:21,26

their pools. Heb. gathering of their waters.

Ge 1:10

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

18; Re 8:9The first miracle of Christ turned water into wine, the first plague upon Egypt turned all their water into blood.