Psalms 105:31
He spoke, and insects swarmed— gnats throughout their country.
BSB
ASV
He spake, and there came swarms of flies, And lice in all their borders.
KJV
He spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, and lice in all their coasts.
He spake, and there came divers sorts of flies,.... Or a "mixture" (z) of various insects, and, as some interpret it, of wild beasts; and so Kimchi says evil beasts are meant, which were raised up to go into all their borders; the Arabic version renders it "dogflies", after the Septuagint; See Gill on Psa 78:45, this was the fourth plague, Exo 8:24. And lice in all their coasts; this is the third plague, and what the magicians could not imitate, but were obliged to own the finger of God was in it, Exo 8:
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.
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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Isaiah 7:18On that day the LORD will whistle to the flies at the farthest streams of the Nile and to the bees in the land of Assyria.
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He lifts a banner for the distant nations and whistles for those at the ends of the earth. Behold—how speedily and swiftly they come!
Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy…
Moreover, the LORD your God will send the hornet against them until even the survivors hiding from you have perished.
I sent the hornet ahead of you, and it drove out the two Amorite kings before you, but not by your own sword or bow.
Then the Amorites who lived in the hills came out against you and chased you like a swarm of bees. They routed you from Seir all the way to Hormah.
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Psalms 78:45He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.
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But if you will not let My people go, I will send swarms of flies upon you and your officials and your people and your houses. The houses of the Egyptians and even the…
But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs.
Their land teemed with frogs, even in their royal chambers.