Exodus 8:18

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When the magicians attempted to bring forth gnats by their secret arts, they could not. So there were gnats on people and on animals.

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  • Exod 7:11 : 11 Then Pharaoh also summoned wise men and sorcerers, and the magicians of Egypt by their secret arts did the same thing.
  • Exod 9:11 : 11 The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for boils were on the magicians and on all the Egyptians.
  • Dan 5:8 : 8 So all the king’s wise men came in, but they were unable to read the writing or to make known its interpretation to the king.
  • Luke 10:18 : 18 So he said to them,“I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
  • 2 Tim 3:8-9 : 8 And just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these people– who have warped minds and are disqualified in the faith– also oppose the truth. 9 But they will not go much further, for their foolishness will be obvious to everyone, just like it was with Jannes and Jambres.
  • Gen 41:8 : 8 In the morning he was troubled, so he called for all the diviner-priests of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.
  • Isa 19:12 : 12 But where, oh where, are your wise men? Let them tell you, let them find out what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has planned for Egypt.
  • Isa 47:12-13 : 12 Persist in trusting your amulets and your many incantations, which you have faithfully recited since your youth! Maybe you will be successful– maybe you will scare away disaster. 13 You are tired out from listening to so much advice. Let them take their stand– the ones who see omens in the sky, who gaze at the stars, who make monthly predictions– let them rescue you from the disaster that is about to overtake you!
  • Dan 2:10-11 : 10 The wise men replied to the king,“There is no man on earth who is able to disclose the king’s secret, for no king, regardless of his position and power, has ever requested such a thing from any magician, astrologer, or wise man. 11 What the king is asking is too difficult, and no one exists who can disclose it to the king, except for the gods– but they don’t live among mortals!”
  • Dan 4:7 : 7 When the magicians, astrologers, wise men, and diviners entered, I recounted the dream for them. But they were unable to make known its interpretation to me.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 8:12-17
    6 verses
    89%

    12Then Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to the LORD because of the frogs that he had brought on Pharaoh.

    13The LORD did as Moses asked– the frogs died out of the houses, the villages, and the fields.

    14The Egyptians piled them in countless heaps, and the land stank.

    15But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he hardened his heart and did not listen to them, just as the LORD had predicted.

    16The Third Blow: Gnats The LORD said to Moses,“Tell Aaron,‘Extend your staff and strike the dust of the ground, and it will become gnats throughout all the land of Egypt.’”

    17They did so; Aaron extended his hand with his staff, he struck the dust of the ground, and it became gnats on people and on animals. All the dust of the ground became gnats throughout all the land of Egypt.

  • Exod 8:4-7
    4 verses
    77%

    4Frogs will come up against you, your people, and all your servants.”’”

    5The LORD spoke to Moses,“Tell Aaron,‘Extend your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the canals, and over the ponds, and bring the frogs up over the land of Egypt.’”

    6So Aaron extended his hand over the waters of Egypt, and frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.

    7The magicians did the same with their secret arts and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt too.

  • Exod 9:7-12
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    77%

    7Pharaoh sent representatives to investigate, and indeed, not even one of the livestock of Israel had died. But Pharaoh’s heart remained hard, and he did not release the people.

    8The Sixth Blow: Boils Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,“Take handfuls of soot from a furnace, and have Moses throw it into the air while Pharaoh is watching.

    9It will become fine dust over the whole land of Egypt and will cause boils to break out and fester on both people and animals in all the land of Egypt.”

    10So they took soot from a furnace and stood before Pharaoh, Moses threw it into the air, and it caused festering boils to break out on both people and animals.

    11The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for boils were on the magicians and on all the Egyptians.

    12But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not listen to them, just as the LORD had predicted to Moses.

  • Ps 105:30-31
    2 verses
    76%

    30Their land was overrun by frogs, which even got into the rooms of their kings.

    31He ordered flies to come; gnats invaded their whole territory.

  • Exod 8:19
    76%

    19The magicians said to Pharaoh,“It is the finger of God!” But Pharaoh’s heart remained hard, and he did not listen to them, just as the LORD had predicted.

  • Exod 8:24
    74%

    24The LORD did so; a thick swarm of flies came into Pharaoh’s house and into the houses of his servants, and throughout the whole land of Egypt the land was ruined because of the swarms of flies.

  • Exod 7:10-12
    3 verses
    72%

    10When Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh, they did so, just as the LORD had commanded them– Aaron threw down his staff before Pharaoh and his servants and it became a snake.

    11Then Pharaoh also summoned wise men and sorcerers, and the magicians of Egypt by their secret arts did the same thing.

    12Each man threw down his staff, and the staffs became snakes. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.

  • Exod 7:22
    72%

    22But the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts, and so Pharaoh’s heart remained hard, and he refused to listen to Moses and Aaron– just as the LORD had predicted.

  • Exod 8:31
    71%

    31and the LORD did as Moses asked– he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people. Not one remained!

  • Exod 8:21-22
    2 verses
    70%

    21If you do not release my people, then I am going to send swarms of flies on you and on your servants and on your people and in your houses. The houses of the Egyptians will be full of flies, and even the ground they stand on.

    22But on that day I will mark off the land of Goshen, where my people are staying, so that no swarms of flies will be there, that you may know that I am the LORD in the midst of this land.

  • Exod 10:12-14
    3 verses
    68%

    12The LORD said to Moses,“Extend your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up over the land of Egypt and eat everything that grows in the ground, everything that the hail has left.”

    13So Moses extended his staff over the land of Egypt, and then the LORD brought an east wind on the land all that day and all night. The morning came, and the east wind had brought up the locusts!

    14The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and settled down in all the territory of Egypt. It was very severe; there had been no locusts like them before, nor will there be such ever again.

  • Ps 135:8-9
    2 verses
    67%

    8He struck down the firstborn of Egypt, including both men and animals.

    9He performed awesome deeds and acts of judgment in your midst, O Egypt, against Pharaoh and all his servants.

  • Ps 78:44-45
    2 verses
    67%

    44He turned their rivers into blood, and they could not drink from their streams.

    45He sent swarms of biting insects against them, as well as frogs that overran their land.

  • Exod 9:3
    66%

    3then the hand of the LORD will surely bring a very terrible plague on your livestock in the field, on the horses, the donkeys, the camels, the herds, and the flocks.

  • Exod 8:2
    66%

    2But if you refuse to release them, then I am going to plague all your territory with frogs.

  • Deut 28:27
    66%

    27The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, eczema, and scabies, all of which cannot be healed.

  • Exod 8:29
    66%

    29Moses said,“I am going to go out from you and pray to the LORD, and the swarms of flies will go away from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people tomorrow. Only do not let Pharaoh deal falsely again by not releasing the people to sacrifice to the LORD.”