and the frogs shall come up both on you, and on your people, and on all your servants.’”
Parallel translations
- KJV And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants.
- BSB The frogs will come up on you and your people and all your officials.’”
- ESV The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your servants.”’”
- NKJV And the frogs shall come up on you, on your people, and on all your servants.” ’ ”
- NASB So the frogs will come up on you, your people, and on all your servants.” ’ ”
- NLT Frogs will jump on you, your people, and all your officials.’”
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Quick answer
The frogs will come up on Pharaoh, his people, and all his servants. None in Egypt, high or low, will escape.
Overview
The plague is explicitly said to reach Pharaoh himself along with all his subjects, underscoring that no rank exempts anyone from God's judgment. The king who exalts himself against Yahweh is brought low by lowly frogs. This leveling judgment displays that all stand accountable before God, and it humbles human pride, pointing to the truth that every knee will ultimately bow before the Lord.
Cross-references & the web
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- Isa 19:22Yahweh will strike Egypt, striking and healing. They will return to Yahweh, and he will be entreated by them, and will heal them.
- Acts 12:22–23The people shouted, “The voice of a god, and not of a man!”
- Isa 19:11The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How do you say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?”
- Isa 23:9Yahweh of Armies has planned it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.
- Dan 4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
- Ps 107:40He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.
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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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