Exodus 8:18
And the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they could not: so there were lice upon man, and upon beast.
Cross-reference
Exodus 7:11 shows magicians succeeding, contrasting with their failure here to produce gnats.
Exodus 9:11 shows magicians powerless and afflicted by boils, continuing their failure from here.
In Exodus 7:12, the magicians' staffs are swallowed by Aaron's—a prior display of their limited power, leading to this moment.
In 2 Timothy 3:8, Paul explicitly references Jannes and Jambres opposing Moses—the same magicians who failed here.
In 2 Timothy 3:9, their folly is compared to that of those two men—continuing the direct reference to the Exodus magicians.
Isaiah 19:12 mocks Egypt's wise men who cannot know God's plans, just as here they cannot replicate the plague.
Genesis 41:8 also shows Egyptian magicians unable to interpret—a pattern of their incompetence.
Isaiah 47:12 mocks Babylon's sorceries, paralleling the failure of Egypt's magicians here.
In Isaiah 47:13, Babylon's astrologers likewise fail to save—matching the magicians' impotence before God's power.
In Daniel 2:10, the Chaldeans admit no one can reveal the king's secret—mirroring the magicians' inability to duplicate God's plague.
In Daniel 2:11, they claim only gods can reveal the dream—similar to the magicians conceding God's finger.
In Daniel 4:7, Nebuchadnezzar's wise men cannot interpret his dream—echoing the Egyptian magicians' failure.
In Daniel 5:8, Belshazzar's wise men cannot read the writing—another instance of human wisdom failing before divine action.
In Micah 3:7, false prophets are put to shame with no answer from God—similar to the magicians' confession of divine finger.