Exodus 9:32
but the wheat and spelt were not destroyed, because they are late crops.)
BSB
ASV
But the wheat and the spelt were not smitten: for they were not grown up.
KJV
But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up.
But the wheat and the rye were not smitten - Wheat, חטה chittah, which Mr. Parkhurst thinks should be derived from the Chaldee and Samaritan חטי chati, which signifies tender, delicious, delicate, because of the superiority of its flavor, etc., to every other kind of grain. But this term in Scripture appears to mean any kind of bread-corn. Rye, כסמת cussemeth, from כסם casam, to have long hair; and hence, though the particular species is not known, the word must mean some bearded grain.
In this plague the hot thunderbolts, as well as the hail, are said to destroy their flocks, Ps. lxxviii. Perhaps David alludes to this when, describing God's glorious appearances for the discomfiture of his enemies, he speaks of the hailstones and coals of fire he threw among them, Ps. xviii. And there is a plan reference to it on the pouring out of the seventh vial, Rev. xvi.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Exodus 10:22So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and total darkness covered all the land of Egypt for three days.
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He sent darkness, and it became dark— yet they defied His words.
And the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness, and men began to gnaw their tongues in anguish
For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth—the LORD, the God…
And the people stood at a distance as Moses approached the thick darkness where God was.
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…