They gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.
Parallel translations
- KJV And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.
- BSB They were piled into countless heaps, and there was a terrible stench in the land.
- NKJV They gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.
- NASB So they piled them in heaps, and the land stank.
- NLT The Egyptians piled them into great heaps, and a terrible stench filled the land.
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Quick answer
The dead frogs are heaped up and the land stinks. The relief leaves behind a reminder of the plague's reality.
Overview
The piles of decaying frogs filling the land with stench show that even ended judgments leave lasting marks. The deliverance does not erase the memory of what disobedience brought. This lingering consequence warns that sin's effects often outlast the moment of relief, urging hearts not to presume on grace but to turn fully to the Lord who alone can cleanse and restore.
Cross-references & the web
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- Ezek 39:11It shall happen in that day, that I will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel, the valley of those who pass through on the east of the sea; and it shall stop those who pass through: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude; and they shall call it The valley of Hamon Gog.
- Exod 8:24Yahweh did so; and there came grievous swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants’ houses: and in all the land of Egypt the land was corrupted by reason of the swarms of flies.
- Joel 2:20But I will remove the northern army far away from you, and will drive it into a barren and desolate land, its front into the eastern sea, and its back into the western sea; and its stench will come up, and its bad smell will rise.” Surely he has done great things.
- Isa 34:2For Yahweh is enraged against all the nations, and angry with all their armies. He has utterly destroyed them. He has given them over for slaughter.
- Exod 7:21The fish that were in the river died; and the river became foul, and the Egyptians couldn’t drink water from the river; and the blood was throughout all the land of Egypt.
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The Passover lamb whose blood turns away death, the exodus through the sea, the manna, the rock, and the tabernacle where God dwells with his people all foreshadow Jesus — our Passover, our redemption, the bread from heaven, and God-with-us in the flesh.
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