Exo 10:21-23, Psa 105:28, Joe 2:31, Amo 5:18, 8:9, Hab 3:8-11, Act 2:20 | TSK | STEP | Stretch. darkness.As the Egyptians not only worshipped the light and sun, but also paid the same veneration to night and darkness, nothing could be more terrible than this punishment of palpable and coercive darkness, such as their luminary Osiris could not dispel. See Bryant, pp. 141-160. even darkness which may be felt. Heb. that one may feeldarkness.

Exodus 10:21-23

Stretch.

darkness.As the Egyptians not only worshipped the light and sun, but also paid the same veneration to night and darkness, nothing could be more terrible than this punishment of palpable and coercive darkness, such as their luminary Osiris could not dispel. See Bryant, pp. 141-160.

Ps 35:6; 78:49; 105:28; Pr 4:19; Ec 2:14; 6:4; Isa 8:21,22

Mt 27:45; Mr 15:33; Lu 23:44; 2Pe 2:4,17; Jude 1:6,13; Re 16:10,11

even darkness which may be felt. Heb. that one may feeldarkness.

thick darkness.

20:21; De 4:11; 5:22; Ps 105:28; Joe 2:2,31; Am 4:13; Re 16:10

but all.

8:22; 9:4,26; 14:20; Jos 24:7; Isa 42:16; 60:1-3; 65:13,14

Mal 3:18; Col 1:13; 1Pe 2:9

Psalms 105:28

sent.

Ex 10:21-23; Joe 2:2,31; Lu 23:44,45; 2Pe 2:4,17

rebelled.

99:7; Eze 2:4-8

Joel 2:31

sun.

10; 3:1,15; Isa 13:9,10; 34:4,5; Mt 24:29; 27:45; Mr 13:24,25

Lu 21:25; Re 6:12,13

the great.

Zep 1:14-16; Mal 4:1,5

Amos 5:18

desire.

Isa 5:19; 28:15-22; Jer 17:15; Eze 12:22,27; Mal 3:1,2; 2Pe 3:4

the day of the Lord is.

Isa 5:30; 9:19; 24:11,12; Jer 30:7; Joe 1:15; 2:1,2,10,31

Zep 1:14,15; Mal 4:1; 2Pe 3:10

Amos 8:9

that I.This is supposed to refer to an eclipse; and Abp. Usher has shown that about eleven years after Amos prophesied there were two great eclipses of the sun, one at the feast of tabernacles, and the other some time before the passover.

4:13; 5:8; Job 5:14; Isa 13:10; 29:9,10; 59:9,10; Jer 15:9; Mic 3:6

Mt 24:29; Re 6:12; 8:12

and I.

Ex 10:21-23; Mt 27:45; Mr 15:33; Lu 23:44