Exodus 10:14-35 KJV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 10:12-20

Here is, I. The invasion of the land by the locusts?God's great army, Joel 2:11. God bids Moses stretch out his hand (Exod. 10:12), to beckon them, as it wee (for they came at a call), and he stretched forth his rod, Exod. 10:13. Compare Exod. 9:22, 23. Moses ascribes it to the stretching out, not of his own hand, but the rod of God, the instituted sign of God's presence with him. The locusts obey the summons, and fly upon the wings of the wind, the east wind, and caterpillars without number,... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 10:21-29

Here is, I. The plague of darkness brought upon Egypt, and a most dreadful plague it was, and therefore is put first of the ten in Ps. 105:28; though it was one of the last; and in the destruction of the spiritual Egypt it is produced by the fifth vial, which is poured out upon the seat of the beast, Rev. 16:10. His kingdom was full of darkness. Observe particularly concerning this plague, 1. That it was a total darkness. We have reason to think, not only that the lights of heaven were... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 10:14

And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt ,.... Being raised up by the wind in the places where they were generated, they flew and spread themselves all over the land, being in a wonderful manner produced and multiplied by the power of God: and rested in all the coasts of Egypt ; in every part of it where the Egyptians dwelt, and where there were meadows, pastures, fields, gardens, orchards; here they lighted and fed, excepting the land of Goshen, where Israel dwelt, which must... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 10:15

For they covered the face of the whole earth ,.... Of the whole land of Egypt; and this seems to be the instance in which these locusts differed from all others, that had been or would be, even in their numbers; for though there might have been before, and have been since, such vast numbers of them together as to darken the air and the sun, and by lighting first on one spot, and then on another, have destroyed whole countries; yet never was such an instance known as this, as that they should... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 10:16

Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste ,.... Or, "hastened to call them" F20 וימהר־לקרא "et festinavit ad vocandum", Montanus; "festinavit accersere", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator. ; sent messengers in all haste to fetch them, and desire them to come as soon as possible to him. Thus he who a few hours ago drove them from his presence, in a hurry, sends for them to come to him with all speed, which the present circumstances he was in required: and he said to Moses... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 10:17

Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin, only this once ,.... Pretending that he would never offend any more, and if he did, he did not desire it should be forgiven him, but that due punishment should be inflicted on him. These words are directed to Moses, he being the principal person that came to him with a commission from the Lord, and who was made a god to Pharaoh; and therefore he does not ask forgiveness of the Lord, but of Moses: and entreat the Lord your God, that he may take... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 10:18

And he went out from Pharaoh ,.... Without the city, as he had been wont to do: and entreated the Lord; prayed to him that he would remove the plague of the locusts from the land. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 10:19

And the Lord turned a mighty strong west wind ,.... He turned the wind the contrary way it before blew; it was an east wind that brought the locusts, but now it was changed into a west wind, or "a wind of the sea" F21 רוח ים "venture maris", Montanus, Drusius. , of the Mediterranean sea; a wind which blew from thence, which lay to the west of Egypt, as the Red sea did to the east of it, to which the locusts were carried by the wind as follows: which took away the locusts, and cast... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 10:20

But the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart ,.... For as yet he had not brought all his judgments on him he designed to bring: so that he would not let the children of Israel go : though he had promised to do it, and that he would never offend more in this way. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 10:21

And the Lord said unto Moses ,.... About the eleventh day of the month Abib: stretch out thine hand toward heaven ; where the luminaries are, and from whence light comes: that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt ; that is, what caused it, the gross vapours and thick fogs; for otherwise darkness itself, being a privation of light, cannot be felt: Onkelos paraphrases it,"after that the darkness of the night is removed;'so Jonathan; that it... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 10:12-20

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 10:21-29

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 10:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 10:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 10:16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 10:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 10:18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 10:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 10:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 10:21

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