Plagues of Egypt

attack on the gods of Egypt. There are a few varying views on the way that they are connected, but whichever way one decides upon, the connections are obvious. The plagues and Exodus in general can teach a great deal about God’s sovereignty and about being spiritual underdogs in a pluralistic world. While researching the ten plagues and Egyptian theology, one will often find that many believe each plague to be an attack on different gods. Evidence for this idea is found in Exodus 12:12. To give some context to this verse, at this point in scripture, nine of the ten plagues have already occurred and…

starting out with only seventy peoples, including families when they entered Egypt, they multiplied and became a great nation (Deffinbaugh, 2004). Also, after reading the story of Egypt bondage and exodus, and how the Lord used Moses in Egypt to speak to Pharaoh concerning the children of Israel (Fisher, 2014, p. 253). After doing some comparison and contrast concerning this story. Moses was sent to deliver the Israelites from bondage. Pharaoh wanted to keep the children of Israel…

There is a lot of action and a lot of plot. However, with all this action there comes a lot of bloodshed. The Lord hardens Pharaoh’s heart so that he does not let the people of Israel go to claim the land the Lord has promised to them. The Lord sends ten plagues to Egypt to show his power. The last one is the slaying of the firstborns’ of the Egyptians. At first glance, this seems like an absolutely atrocious act and it is. Killing is never good; however, God is justified and has good reasons…

Examples of other such songs are: Judges 5:1-31, where Deborah and Barak praise God for his triumph over the Canaanites and 2 Samuel 22, a praise made by David for God’s deliverance of Goliath and the Philistine people. In the same way, the Song of Moses was written in order to praise and thank God for his deliverance from the hands of the Egyptians both in the land of Egypt and at the Red…

In both of the books, God and Gilgamesh both use violence to show their power. Similarly, God uses violence against the Pharaoh with the ten plagues to show his power and to show the Pharaoh is a false God, while Gilgamesh uses violence to defeat and kill Humbaba to show his power. The difference between these two would be that God used his violence to prove a point and show that he was the real God and the Pharaoh was powerless. While, Gilgamesh used his violence to gain fame and did not really…

When looking at the nameless Pharaoh of the story, it could mean that not having a name for him ties the story more emotionally to a lot of the people (Hendel, 2001). Exodus is a huge focal point that ties emotionally to all the slaves that were captured and one day hoped to be let free (Hendel, 2001). It could be that the name was purposefully not written down or it could be that this detail has become part of collective memory, lost through years of translation (Hendel, 2001). The deadly…

The bible being looked at as sacred history would have one think that the ten plagues are a retelling of events that could have actually happened rather stories being told about a people and a pharaoh. Looking at the bible as scared history gives you the mindset that these events took place and the locations that they happened at can be visited. The fact that it is now looked at as history makes what is written regarded as fact and do not solely rely on faith but as something that actually…

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3:10). The Exodus consisted of plagues, each sent because the Pharaoh refused to let the Israelites be free from their oppression (Ex. 7.4-7). The Israelites were enslaved by the Egyptians because there was a rapid increase of the number of Israelites and the Egyptians were worried that the Israelites would turn against them and attempt to take over (Ex. 1:6-11). The historicity of the Exodus is debated because people lack faith in what is clearly stated in the Bible. Also, they claim that the…

The basic basics (basic background knowledge before you go) The Black Death The Black Death was a deadly plague, made up of the septicaemic, the pneumonic and the bubonic plague. It occurred during the Middle Ages killing millions from China, across to Europe and down to Africa and Egypt. The plague was a pandemic because this it was so brutal and damaged a vast amount of the population in many different countries. The septicaemic The rarest and most deadly form of the plague was the…