Exodus 8:1–15
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About this episode
We come now to the second of the great plagues that God brought upon the land of Egypt. The first plague, turning the Nile to blood, was a direct assault on the lifeblood of Egypt and its chief deities. And so God, in His relentless mercy and judgment, escalates the conflict. We must understand that these plagues are not random acts of divine temper. They are a systematic, theological dismantling of the entire Egyptian worldview. They are a series of divine invasions, each one calculated to mock and demolish a specific set of Egyptian gods, demonstrating that Yahweh alone is God. This second plague, the plague of frogs, might seem almost comical to us. We think of frogs as slimy and annoying, but not particularly terrifying. But this is to misunderstand the nature of the attack. God is not just making things unpleasant for Pharaoh; He is waging war with cosmic intelligence.