Exodus 10:15-20

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

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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 10:15

There remained not any green thing - See Clarke's note on Exodus 10:4 . read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 10:17

Forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once - What a strange case! And what a series of softening and hardening, of sinning and repenting! Had he not now another opportunity of returning to God? But the love of gain, and the gratification of his own self-will and obstinacy, finally prevailed. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 10:19

A mighty strong west wind - ים רוח ruach yam , literally the wind of the sea; the wind that blew from the Mediterranean Sea, which lay north-west of Egypt, which had the Red Sea on the east. Here again God works by natural means; he brought the locusts by the east wind, and took them away by the west or north-west wind, which carried them to the Red Sea where they were drowned. The Red Sea - סוף ים yam suph , the weedy sea; so called, as some suppose, from the great quantity of... read more

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