Exo 7:20-21, Psa 78:44, Isa 50:2, Eze 29:4-5, Rev 16:3 | TSK | STEP | he lifted. 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.

Exodus 7:20-21

he lifted.

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.

Psalms 78:44

105:29; Ex 7:17-21; Re 16:3-6The miracles mentioned in this and the four subsequent verses, evidently shew the power of God over the elements of nature, which at that time were the objects of Egyptian worship.