And the LORD did according to the word of Moses. The frogs died out in the houses, the courtyards, and the fields.
Pharaoh is here first threatened and then plagued with frogs, as afterwards, in this chapter, with lice and flies, little despicable inconsiderable animals, and yet by their vast numbers rendered sore plagues to the Egyptians. God could have plagued them with lions, or bears, or wolves, or with vultures or other birds of prey; but he chose to do it by these contemptible instruments. 1.
Commenting on Exodus 8:1-15
And they gathered them together upon heaps,.... Swept them up, and laid them in heaps out of the way: and the land stank; with the stench of the dead frogs, which was another proof and evidence of the reality of the miracle; and that dead frogs will cause such an ill smell appears from the above account of what befell the inhabitants of Paeonia and...
And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the villages, and out of the fields. (d) In things of this life God often hears the prayers of the just for the ungodly.