Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.
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Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.
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And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:
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And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days;
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Passages linked to Exodus 10:22 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 105:28 He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn’t rebel against his words.
- Revelation 16:10 The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was darkened. They gnawed their tongues because of the pain,
- Exodus 20:21 The people stayed at a distance, and Moses came near to the thick darkness where God was.
- Deuteronomy 4:11 You came near and stood under the mountain. The mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.
- Deuteronomy 5:22 Yahweh spoke these words to all your assembly on the mountain out of the middle of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice. He added no more. He wrote them on two stone tablets, and gave them to me.
- Joel 2:2 A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.
- Joel 2:31 The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
- Amos 4:13 For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name.”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain The ninth plague.
The ninth plague.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Exo 10:22 And Moses stretched forth his hand toward…
Exo 10:22 And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:
Ver. 22. Thick darkness.] It was thick indeed, that might be felt: {a} so thick and foggy were the vapours that caused it.
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{a} ψηλαφητον ακοτος. - Sept.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Pharaoh called unto Moses,.... After the three days,…
And Pharaoh called unto Moses,.... After the three days, as the Targum of Jonathan, when the darkness was over, or at least much diminished, fearing that still worse evils would befall him:
and said, go ye, serve the Lord, only let your flocks and your herds be stayed; stopped or remained behind, as a pledge and security of their return; and these the rather he was desirous of retaining, because of the great loss of cattle he had sustained by the murrain and boils upon them, and by the hail: let your little ones also go with you; this he had refused before, but now consents to it, which he thought was doing them a great favour, and that upon such terms they might be content to go.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 22. And there was a thick darkness in all…
22. And there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days — As all the plagues seem in some way connected with natural causes, this preternatural darkness is by many assigned to a sand-storm, such as accompanies the simoom or the chamaseen, miraculously increased in intensity. Neither of these winds are ever known to produce so deep a darkness as is here described, though they obscure the sun and cause a twilight gloom. The simoom, or samoom, is a hot parching wind, raising clouds of dust and sand, which give the whole air a reddish-yellow tinge, and make the sun at first look like a globe of blood, and then blot it wholly from view. It is painfully suffocating both to man and beast while it lasts, but it is of short duration, especially if extremely hot and violent, generally passing within half an hour. The chamaseen, or khamsin, is less hot and violent, but lasts two or three days at a time, occurring at frequent intervals during a period of fifty days before and after the vernal equinox, that is, during March and the first of April, which corresponds well with the time of the plague of darkness. It darkens the sun with clouds of sand, which fill the air like a yellow fog, or like a heavy storm of snow or hail; men and beasts hide themselves while it rages, the inhabitants taking refuge in the innermost apartments or in subterranean vaults. The streets are deserted, as in the night, and all business ceases. But all these characteristics must have been supernaturally intensified to produce the effects described in the text. Both the simoom and the chamaseen are local, and very limited in range, so that such a wind might have blows up the Nile valley and left Goshen, in the eastern part of the Delta, untouched.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain A thick darkness. Literally, "An obscurity of darkness." The…
A thick darkness. Literally, "An obscurity of darkness." The phrase is intensitive.
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