For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
Study Helps
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.