Q: It has been mentioned that the various plagues that God sent on Egypt are correlated to the pantheon of false gods the Egyptians worshiped. Any further information available?
Right before the tenth plague, God states (Exodus 12:12) that, “on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment.” As pointed out in The New Bible Dictionary, the last plague actually completes God's judgment on the Egyptian gods. One attempt at correlating the plagues with the gods (from Bernard Ramm's His Way Out and other sources) is seen below:
The Nile god, Ha'pi, brought disaster instead of prosperity.
The frog god of fruitfulness, Heqit, brought disease.
Seth, the earth god, was defiled by lice on the earth.
The fly may refer to sacred beetle god, Khepra.
All the Egyptian livestock (sacred to Apis, Isis and Amon) were struck down.
Ashes were used by the priests to bless the people. Instead it becomes a curse.
Thunder and hail were supposed to be a good omen of awesome events.
Isis and Serapis were supposed to protect the land from locust.
The light of the sun god, Re', was blotted out.
The last plague affected the family of Pharaoh himself, believed by the Egyptians to be a divine being.
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