gods of Egypt] The Egyptians were great Idolaters, and they had a multitude of Idols, which they tooke for gods: these gods were either destroyed, or (which is in effect as much) discovered in their defect of a Deitie, by laying open their impotencie, to preserve those who did service to them, and trusted in them, as if they had beene Gods: among these, the chiefest of them were Kine, and other cattell of that kind, which were destroyed with the murraine, and with the haile, Chap. 9. 3. 25. and it may be their great Idoll Apis had some especiall judgement executed upon it, as upon Dagon the Idoll of the Philistines, 1 Samuel 5:3.