And the LORD said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the canals and over the pools, and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt!’” So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt. But the magicians did the same by their secret arts and made frogs come up on the land of Egypt.
Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron and said, “Plead with the LORD to take away the frogs from me and from my people, and I will let the people go to sacrifice to the LORD.” Moses said to Pharaoh, “Be pleased to command me when I am to plead for you and for your servants and for your people, that the frogs be cut off from you and your houses and be left only in the Nile.” And he said, “Tomorrow.” Moses said, “Be it as you say, so that you may know that there is no one like the LORD our God. The frogs shall go away from you and your houses and your servants and your people. They shall be left only in the Nile.” So Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to the LORD about the frogs, as he had agreed with Pharaoh. And the LORD did according to the word of Moses. The frogs died out in the houses, the courtyards, and the fields. And they gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.
Comment: But the magicians did the same by their secret arts and made frogs come up on the land of Egypt. I don’t understand how the magicians had this power to ‘call up’ the same things that God used as plagues. Some will say that this is not true so it must be false. Calling the Bible false is, I have discovered, to be unwise because, so many of ‘things described as not possible’, archeological findings have proven to be true! Someone ‘made’ the plague ‘animals’ Egyptian gods! I wonder what will happen when the plague objects are not items of worship – for instance it seems that Pharaoh promises that if the frogs disappear he will let the Israelites go to worship Jehovah. The plague dies out and leaves a stinking mess behind them – we’ll see how good is a Pharaoh promise!
Prayer: I confess Father that some of Bible ‘truths’ are hard for me to understand. Help me to rest in the knowledge that ‘You are God of truth‘.
As I read it! 