Exo 10:21-23, Mat 27:45, Mar 15:33, Luk 23:44 | 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

Matthew 27:45

from.

Mr 15:25,33,34; Lu 23:44,45

darkness.That this general darkness was wholly preternatural is evident from this, that it happened at the passover, which was celebrated only at the full moon, a time in which it was impossible for the sun to be eclipsed, natural eclipses happening only at the time of the new moon. (See Introduction to the Comprehensive Bible, p. 59.)

Isa 50:3; Am 8:9; Re 8:12; 9:2

Mark 15:33

when.

25; Mt 27:45; Lu 23:44,45

darkness.

Ps 105:28; Isa 50:3,4; Am 8:9,10

Luke 23:44

it.

Mt 27:45; Mr 15:33

there.

Ex 10:21-23; Ps 105:28; Joe 2:31; Am 5:18; 8:9; Hab 3:8-11; Ac 2:20

earth. or, land.