The frogs will leave you and your houses, your officials and your people; they will remain only in the Nile. The precision of the promise — frogs leave every location except the Nile — is the kind of specificity that can only be fulfilled by the one who controls the frogs in the first place. The Nile was the frog's natural habitat; returning them there is a restoration of natural order, demonstrating that what was called disorder was actually God's ordered deployment of His creation for His purposes. Job 38:4 records God asking Job where he was when the foundations of the earth were laid — the one who designed creation can direct its creatures for His own ends. The frogs in the Nile are under God's command; the frogs on Egypt's beds and in Egypt's ovens were under the same command. The difference is Pharaoh's obedience.

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