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Exd 8:24 — And the LORD did so; and there came a grievous swarm [of flies] into the house of Pharaoh, and [into] his servants' houses, and into all the land of Egypt: the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm [of flies].

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

there		Exd 8:21; Psa 78:45; Psa 105:31
the land		How intolerable a plague of flies can prove, is evident from the fact that whole districts have been laid waste by them. The inhabitants have been forced to quit their cities, not being able to stand against the flies and gnats with which they were pestered. Hence different people had deities whose office it was to defend them against flies. Among these may be reckoned Baalzebub, the fly-god of Ekron; Hercules, muscarum abactor, Hercules the expeller of flies; and hence Jupiter had the titles of [apomuios, muiagros, muiochoros] because he was supposed to expel flies, and especially clear his temples of these insects. See Bryant. See on Exd 8:14.
corrupted		or destroyed.

Correlating Passages

there

	Exd 8:21	Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms [of flies] upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms [of flies], and also the ground whereon they [are].
	Psa 78:45	He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
	Psa 105:31	He spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, [and] lice in all their coasts.

the land

Exd 8:14

And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.

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Scott, Thomas. "Exodus 8:24," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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