Exodus 10:4 BSB — MannaFest

Exodus 10:4

But if you refuse to let My people go, I will bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.

BSB

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ASV

Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to-morrow will I bring locusts into thy border:

KJV

Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:

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Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

To-morrow will I bring the locusts - The word ארבה arbeh, a locust, is probably from the root רבה rabah, he multiplied, became great, mighty, etc.; because of the immense swarms of these animals by which different countries, especially the east, are infested. The locust, in entomology, belongs to a genus of insects known among naturalists by the term Grylli; and includes three species, crickets, grasshoppers, and those commonly called locusts; and as they multiply faster than any other animal in creation, they are properly entitled to the name ארבה arbeh, which might be translated the numerous or multiplied insect.

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּ֛י	ki	that	H3588 →
אִם־	'im-	except	H518 →
מָאֵ֥ן	ma.'En	[are] refusing	H3986 →
אַתָּ֖ה	'a.Tah	you	H859 →
לְשַׁלֵּ֣חַ	le.sha.Le.ach	to let go	H7971 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
עַמִּ֑י	'a.Mi	people my	H5971 →
הִנְנִ֨י	hi.Ni	here I	H2005 →
מֵבִ֥יא	me.Vi'	[am] about to bring	H935 →
מָחָ֛ר	ma.Char	tomorrow	H4279 →
אַרְבֶּ֖ה	'ar.Beh	locust[s]	H697 →
בִּגְבֻלֶֽךָ׃	big.vu.Le.kha	in territory your	H1366 →

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The walk

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Joel 2:25
I will repay you for the years eaten by locusts—the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust—My great army that I sent against you.
leads to
- Zechariah 10:6
  I will strengthen the house of Judah and save the house of Joseph. I will restore them because I have compassion on them, and they will be as though I had not rejected them.…
- Joel 1:4–7
  What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.
- Joel 2:2–11
  a 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…
Through
Revelation 9:3
And out of the smoke, locusts descended on the earth, and they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth.
leads to
- Revelation 9:5
  The locusts were not given power to kill them, but only to torment them for five months, and their torment was like the stinging of a scorpion.
- Joel 1:4
  What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.
- Deuteronomy 8:15
  He led you through the vast and terrifying wilderness with its venomous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty and waterless land. He brought you water from the rock of flint.
- Joel 2:25
  I will repay you for the years eaten by locusts—the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust—My great army that I sent against you.
Through
Exodus 9:18
Behold, at this time tomorrow I will rain down the worst hail that has ever fallen on Egypt, from the day it was founded until now.
leads to
- 1 Kings 20:6
  But about this time tomorrow I will send my servants to search your palace and the houses of your servants. They will seize and carry away all that is precious to you.’”

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