The frogs will come up on you and your people and all your officials.’”
Parallel translations
- WEB and the frogs shall come up both on you, and on your people, and on all your servants.’”
- KJV And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy 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
Cross-references · 6
- Isa 19:22And the LORD will strike Egypt with a plague; He will strike them but heal them. They will turn to the LORD, and He will hear their prayers and heal them.
- Acts 12:22–23And they began to shout, “This is the voice of a god, not a man!”
- Isa 19:11The princes of Zoan are mere fools; Pharaoh’s wise counselors give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am one of the wise, a son of eastern kings”?
- Isa 23:9The LORD of Hosts planned it, to defile all its glorious beauty, to disgrace all the renowned of the earth.
- Dan 4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all His works are true and all His ways are just. And He is able to humble those who walk in pride.
- Ps 107:40He pours out contempt on the nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
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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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