Exo 10 | TSK | STEP | God threatens to send locusts. Pharaoh moved by his servants, inclines to let the Israelites go. The plague of the locusts. Pharaoh entreats Moses. The plague of darkness. Pharaoh again entreats Moses, but yet is hardened. I have hardened. that I.

locusts.The word {arbeh,} Locust, is derived from {ravah,} to multiply, be numerous, etc., because they are more prolific than any other insect, and because of the immense swarms of them by which different countries, especially the East, are infested. The locust, in entomology, belongs to a genus of insects known among naturalists by the name of Grylli; which includes three species, crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts. The common great brown locust is about three inches in length; has two antennæ about an inch long, and two pair of wings. The head and horns are brown; the mouth and inside of the larger legs bluish; the upper side of the body and upper wings brown, the former spotted with black, and the latter with dusky spots. The back is defended by a shield of a greenish hue: the under wings are of a light brown, tinctured with green, and nearly transparent. It has a large open mouth, in the two jaws of which it has four teeth, which traverse each other like scissors, being calculated, from their mechanism, to gripe or cut. The general appearance of the insect is that of the grasshopper. The Egyptians had gods in whom they trusted to deliver them from these terrible invaders; but by this judgment they were taught that it was impossible to stand before Moses, the servant of Jehovah.

Pr 30:27; Joe 1:4-7; 2:2-11,25; Re 9:3

face. Heb. eye.

the residue.

9:32; Joe 1:4; 2:25

fill.

8:3,21

which.

14,15; 9:24; 11:6; Joe 2:2

And he.

11; 11:8; Heb 11:27

How long.

snare.

23:33; Jos 23:13; 1Sa 18:21; Pr 29:6; Ec 7:26; 1Co 7:35

that Egypt.

Ps 107:34; Isa 14:20; 51:9; Jer 48:4; 51:8; Zep 1:18

brought.

16,24; 12:31

who. Heb. who, and who, etc.

We will go.

Ge 50:8; De 31:12,13; Jos 24:15; Ps 148:12,13; Ec 12:1; Eph 6:4

our flocks.

Pr 3:9

a feast.

3:18; 5:1,3; 8:25-28; 13:6; Nu 29:12; 1Co 5:7,8

be so.

12:30,31; 13:21

look to it.

2Ch 32:15; La 3:37

for that.

Ps 52:3,4; 119:69

And they.

28; 5:4

Stretch.

7:19

eat every.

4,5

east wind.

14:21; Ge 41:6; Ps 78:26; 107:25-28; 148:8; Jon 1:4; 4:8; Mt 8:27

the locusts.

De 28:42; 1Ki 8:37; Ps 78:46; 105:34,35; Re 9:3-7

very grievous.

5; Joe 1:2-4

before.

6; 11:6; Joe 2:2

For they.

5; Joe 1:6,7; 2:1-11,25

did eat.

Ps 78:46; 105:35

called for. Heb. hastened to call. I have.

9:27; Nu 21:7; 22:34; 1Sa 15:24,30; 26:21; 2Sa 19:20; Job 34:31,32

Pr 28:13; Mt 27:4

forgive.

1Sa 15:25

and intreat.

8:8; 9:28; 1Ki 13:6; Isa 26:16; Ro 15:30; Ac 8:24

this death.

2Ki 4:40; 2Co 1:10

went.

8:30

and intreated.

8:9,28,29; Mt 5:44; Lu 6:28

a mighty.

cast. Heb. fastened. the Red sea.

13:18; 15:4; Joe 2:20; Heb 11:29

4:21; 7:13,14; 9:12; 11:10; De 2:30; Isa 6:9,10; Joh 12:39,40

Ro 9:18; 2Th 2:11,12

Stretch.

9:22

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

Go ye.

8,9; 8:28; 9:28

flocks.

Ge 34:23