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Exodus 10:14

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The locusts swarmed across the land and settled over the entire territory of Egypt. Never before had there been so many locusts, and never again will there be.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt; very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.

KJV

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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This verse in Exodus 10

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

The locusts swarmed across the land

on Exodus 10:14-15

Nothing green is left, neither plants nor the fruit the hail had spared. The stroke takes the food of the coming year as well as the standing crop.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt,.... Being raised up by the wind in the places where they were generated, they flew and spread themselves all over the land, being in a wonderful manner produced and multiplied by the power of God: and rested in all the coasts of Egypt; in every part of it where the Egyptians dwelt, and where there were meadows, pastures, fields, gardens, orchards; here they lighted and fed, excepting the land of Goshen, where Israel dwelt, which must be thought to be exempted from this plague, as from the rest.

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

the Lord brought an east wind--The rod of Moses was again raised, and the locusts came. They are natives of the desert and are only brought by an east wind into Egypt, where they sometimes come in sun-obscuring clouds, destroying in a few days every green blade in the track they traverse.

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A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Before them there were no such locusts, etc. - They exceeded all that went before, or were since, in number, and in the devastations they produced. Probably both these things are intended in the passage. See Exo 10:15.
Went up - At a distance the locusts appear hanging, as it were, like a heavy cloud over the land; as they approach they seem to rise, and they fill the atmosphere overhead upon their arrival. Over all the land - Travelers mention a cloud of locusts extending over 500 miles, and so compact while on the wing that it completely hid the sun. This passage describes a swarm unprecedented in extent.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

NEITHER AFTER THEM SHALL BE SUCH [LOCUSTS]. Scripture informs us by way of prophecy that after them, there would never be such [locusts].
Ramban: Spain, 1194–1270 · Ramban on Exodus 10:14:1, via Sefaria, Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
Kadim (east) is an adjective, since kedemah mizrachah (the east side) is a noun.
Ibn Ezra: Spain, 1089–1167 · Ibn Ezra on Exodus 10:13:1, via Sefaria, Ibn Ezra's commentary on the Pentateuch, tran. and annot. by H. Norman Strickman and Arthur M. Silver. Menorah Pub., 1988-2004

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 3 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

22 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיַּ֣עַלand it came up

    vaiyaalH5927 →890 times

  • הָֽאַרְבֶּ֗הthe locust[s]

    haarbehH697 →24 times

  • עַ֚לon

    ʾalH5921 →5755 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • אֶ֣רֶץ[the] land of

    ʾeretzH776 →2504 times

  • מִצְרַ֔יִםEgypt

    mitzrayimH4714 →641 times

  • וַיָּ֕נַחand it settled down

    vaiyanachH5117 →142 times

  • בְּכֹ֖לin all

    bekholH3605 →5413 times

  • גְּב֣וּל[the] territory of

    gevulH1366 →240 times

  • מִצְרָ֑יִםEgypt

    mitzrayimH4714 →641 times

  • כָּבֵ֣דheavy

    kavedH3515 →41 times

  • מְאֹ֔דvery

    meodH3966 →300 times

  • לְ֠פָנָיו<to> before it

    lefanavH6440 →2123 times

  • לֹא־not

    lo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • הָ֨יָהit had been

    hayahH1961 →3559 times

  • כֵ֤ןthus

    khenH3651 →771 times

  • אַרְבֶּה֙locust[s]

    ʾarbehH697 →24 times

  • כָּמֹ֔הוּlike it

    kamohuH3644 →143 times

  • וְאַחֲרָ֖יוand after it

    veacharavH310 →715 times

  • לֹ֥אnot

    lo'H3808 →5168 times

  • יִֽהְיֶה־it will be

    yihyeh-H1961 →3559 times

  • כֵּֽן׃thus

    kenH3651 →771 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

10 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Psalms 78:46He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.5 worksJoel 1:2–4Hear this, O elders; and give ear, all who dwell in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your fathers?2 worksExodus 11:6Then a great cry will go out over all the land of Egypt. Such an outcry has never been heard before and will never be heard again.2 worksExodus 10:5–6They will cover the face of the land so that no one can see it. They will devour whatever is left after the hail and eat every tree that grows in your fields.2 works1 Kings 8:37When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemy besieges them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,2 worksDeuteronomy 28:42Swarms of locusts will consume all your trees and the produce of your land.2 works
The other 4 cross-references, with their words ▾
Revelation 9:3–7And out of the smoke, locusts descended on the earth, and they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth.2 worksJoel 2:1–11Blow the ram’s horn in Zion; sound the alarm on My holy mountain! Let all who dwell in the land tremble, for the Day of the LORD is coming; indeed, it is near—2 worksPsalms 105:34–35He spoke, and the locusts came— young locusts without number.2 worksJoel 2:2a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Psalms 78:46

    He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 105:34–35

      He spoke, and the locusts came— young locusts without number.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Exodus 10:12–15

      Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt, so that the locusts may swarm over it and devour every plant in the land—everything that the hail has…

  • Through

    1 Kings 8:37

    When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemy besieges them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 28:21–22

      The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land that you are entering to possess.

    • Leviticus 26:16

      then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed…

    • Deuteronomy 28:38–42

      You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.

    • 2 Chronicles 20:9

      ‘If disaster comes upon us—whether sword or judgment, plague or famine—we will stand before this temple and before You, for Your Name is in this temple. We will cry out to You in our…

  • Through

    Exodus 11:6

    Then a great cry will go out over all the land of Egypt. Such an outcry has never been heard before and will never be heard again.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 12:30

      During the night Pharaoh got up—he and all his officials and all the Egyptians—and there was loud wailing in Egypt; for there was no house without someone dead.

    • Amos 5:17

      There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst,” says the LORD.

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The Ninth Plague. Darkness — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.

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