Flies

How Nave’s arranged it

• General scriptures concerningEcclesiastes 10:1
• Plague ofExodus 8:21–31Psalms 78:45Psalms 105:31
• FIGURATIVEIsaiah 7:18

The passages, in Bible order (5)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 5 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Exodus 8:21–31

   But if you will not let My people go, I will send swarms of flies upon you and your officials and your people and your houses. The houses of the Egyptians and even the ground where they stand will be full of flies.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 8:21–312 voices

   Kynomyia does not represent "dog fly," as the Latins translated it, with the Greek letter upsilon; according to the sense of the Hebrew the diphthong oi should be written so that the word is koinomyia, that is, "every genus of flies."

   “Else, if thou wilt not let my people go,....

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2. Psalms 78:45

   He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.

   ›Commentary on Psalms 78:452 voices

   “He sent divers sorts of flies among them,.... This was the fourth plague; see Exo 8:24, the word signifies a "mixture" (f), and the Targum renders it "a mixture of wild beasts;'' so Josephus (g) understood this plague of various sorts of beasts of different forms, and such as had never been seen before.

   “He destroyed their vine with hail, and their sycamines with frost.

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3. Psalms 105:31

   He spoke, and insects swarmed— gnats throughout their country.

   ›Commentary on Psalms 105:312 voices

   “. Ver. 31. He spake. See the power of the divine word. He had only to say it and it was done: and there came divers sorts of flies. Insects of various annoying kinds came up in infinite hordes, a mixture of biting, stinging, buzzing gnats, mosquitos, files, beetles, and other vermin such as make men's flesh their prey, the place of deposit for their eggs, and the seat of peculiar torments. And lice in all their coasts.

   “He spake, and there came divers sorts of flies,.... Or a "mixture" (z) of various insects, and, as some interpret it, of wild beasts; and so Kimchi says evil beasts are meant, which were raised up to go into all their borders; the Arabic version renders it "dogflies", after the Septuagint; See Gill on Psa 78:45, this was the fourth plague, Exo 8:24. And lice in all their coasts; this is the third plague, and what the magicians could not imitate, but were obliged to own the finger of God was in it, Exo 8:

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4. Ecclesiastes 10:1

   As dead flies bring a stench to the perfumer’s oil, so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.

   ›Commentary on Ecclesiastes 10:12 voices

   “So the higher a man's religious character is, the more hurt is caused by a sinful folly in him. Bad savor is endurable in oil, but not in what professes to be, and is compounded by the perfumer ("apothecary") for, fragrance. "Flies" answer to "a little folly" (sin), appropriately, being small (1Co 5:6); also, "Beelzebub" means prince of flies.

   "Dead flies putrefy the perfumer's oil; a little folly outweighs wisdom and honour. "Here he gives an example to illustrate the idea expressed above, in which he says that many good things can be outweighed by one fool, since one evil mixed with good in this way will pollute the greater part of it, just as flies if they die in oil, make it lose its colour and smell. And since wisdom is often mixed with cleverness and prudence has wickedness, he teaches that we must search out wisdom alone, or that it be mixed with the innocence of doves.

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5. Isaiah 7:18

   On that day the LORD will whistle to the flies at the farthest streams of the Nile and to the bees in the land of Assyria.

   ›Commentary on Isaiah 7:181 voice

   “(Verse 18, 19) And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.

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