Psalms 105:28
He sent darkness, and it became dark— yet they defied His words.
BSB
ASV
He sent darkness, and made it dark; And they rebelled not against his words.
KJV
He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.
Or, rather, the "darkness" here is figurative (Jer 13:16), the literal plague of darkness (Ex 10:22, 23) being only alluded to as the symbol of God's wrath which overhung Egypt as a dark cloud during all the plagues. Hence, it is placed first, out of the historical order. Thus, "They rebelled not (that is, no longer) against His word," refers to the Egyptians.
The old translation follows the LXX., and reads it, They were not obedient to his word, which may be applied to Pharaoh and the Egyptians, who, notwithstanding the terror of this plague, would not let the people go; but there is no ground for it in the Hebrew.
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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2 Peter 2:4For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;
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And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day.
Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key to the Abyss, holding in his hand a great chain.
Then a war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.
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Joel 2:31The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the LORD.
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