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88 ayahs in Al-A'raaf are strongly about lessons from past peoples. This is one of them.
Tafsir
So We unleashed upon them the flood of water which penetrated their houses and which for seven days would come up to people’s necks as they sat; and the locusts which consumed their crops and fruits likewise engulfing them for seven days; and the lice al-qummal is like al-sūs ‘woodworm’ or al-qurād ‘ticks’ which would follow and consume what the locusts left behind; and the frogs such that they infested their houses and food supplies; and the blood flowing in their water distinct clear signs but they were too scornful to believe in them and were a sinful folk.