Exodus 10:21
The Lord told Moses, “Lift your hand toward the sky so that darkness will fall over Egypt, darkness so thick that it can be felt.”
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20But the Lord made Pharaoh stubborn, and he would not let the Israelites go.
22Moses lifted up his hand toward heaven, and the whole of Egypt went completely dark for three days.
Cross References
Exodus 9:22The Lord told Moses, “Lift your hand towards the sky so that a hailstorm will fall over the whole of Egypt, on people and on animals, and on everything growing in the fields of Egypt.”
Deuteronomy 4:34Has any god tried to take a nation out of another nation and make them his own, using tests and signs and miracles and war—with his great power and incredible strength and terrifying actions—like the Lord your God did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes?
Job 5:14In the daytime they're in the dark, and they stumble around at noon like it's night.
Psalms 78:49He poured out on them his fierce anger—rage and hostility and anguish—sending a band of destroying angels against them.
Proverbs 4:19But the way of life of the wicked is like complete darkness; they don't even know what they're tripping over.
Ecclesiastes 6:4The way a stillborn child comes into the world and then leaves is painfully hard to understand—arriving and departing in darkness—and who he would have been is never known.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 10:13-21
12 And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left. 13 And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts. 14 And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous… Read the whole commentary →