And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.
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Interpretation
God bids Moses stretch out his hand; locusts came at the call. An army might more easily have been resisted than this host of insects.
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This thought runs through Exodus 10:12-15.
Glossary
- Egypt Place
- The land of the Nile and the pyramids, the oldest kingdom of which we have any record, holds a place of great significance in Scripture. Modern identification: Ain Shams.