Exo 12:30, Num 25:9, 1Sa 6:19, 2Ki 19:35 | TSK | STEP | and there was a great cry.No people were more remarkable and frantic in their mournings than the Egyptians. When a relative died, every one left the house, and the women, with their hair loose, and their bosoms bare, ran wild about the street. The men also, with their apparel equally disordered, kept them company; all shrieking, howling, and beating themselves. What a scene of horror and distress must now have presented itself, when there was not a family in Egypt where there was not one dead!

Exodus 12:30

and there was a great cry.No people were more remarkable and frantic in their mournings than the Egyptians. When a relative died, every one left the house, and the women, with their hair loose, and their bosoms bare, ran wild about the street. The men also, with their apparel equally disordered, kept them company; all shrieking, howling, and beating themselves. What a scene of horror and distress must now have presented itself, when there was not a family in Egypt where there was not one dead!

11:6; Pr 21:13; Am 5:17; Mt 25:6; Jas 2:13

Numbers 25:9

St. Paul reckons only 23,000: Moses includes in the 24,000 he names, the 1,000 men who were slain in consequence of the judicial examination, (ver. 4,) as well as the 23,000 who died of the plague; while St. Paul only refers to the latter.

4,5; 16:49,50; De 4:3,4; 1Co 10:8

1 Samuel 6:19

he smote.

Ex 19:21; Le 10:1-3; Nu 4:4,5,15,20; De 29:29; 2Sa 6:7

1Ch 13:9,10; Col 2:18; 1Pe 4:17

fifty thousand.As it is very improbable that the village of Beth-shemesh should contain, or be capable of employing, 50,070 men in the fields at wheat harvest, much less that they could all peep into the ark, and from the uncommon manner in which it is expressed in the original, it is generally allowed that there is some corruption in the text, or that some explanatory word is omitted. The Hebrew is {shivim ish, chamishim aileph ish,} literally, "seventy men, fifty thousand men:" so LXX. [ .] Vulgate, {septuaginta viros, et quinquaginta millia plebis,} "70 (chief) men, and 50,000 common people." Targum, {besabey âmma,} "of the elders of the people 70 men, {ovekahala,} and in the congregation 50,000 men." But the Syriac, {chamsho alphin weshivin gavrin,} "5,000 and 70 men;" with which the Arabic agrees; while Josephus has only [ ,] seventy men; and three reputable MSS. of Dr. Kennicott's also omit "50,000 men." Some learned men, however, would render, by supplying [Mêm,] {mem,} "70 men; fifty out of a thousand;" which supposes about 1,400 present, and that a twentieth part were slain.

2 Kings 19:35

that night.

Ex 12:29; Da 5:30; 1Th 5:2,3

the angel.

Ex 12:29,30; 2Sa 24:16; 1Ch 21:12,16; 2Ch 32:21,22; Ps 35:5,6

Ac 12:23

and smote.

Isa 10:16-19,33; 30:30-33; 37:36; Ho 1:7

when they arose.

Ex 12:30; Ps 76:5-7,10