Exodus 10 (JND) - Bible Truth Library

darkness.As the Egyptians not only worshipped the light and sun, but also paid the same veneration to night and darkness, nothing could be more terrible than this punishment of palpable and coercive darkness, such as their luminary Osiris could not dispel.

See Bryant, pp. 141-160.

Psa. 35:6• ⁶Let their way be dark and slippery, and let the angel of Jehovah pursue them. (Psa. 35:6)

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Psa. 78:49• ⁴⁹He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and distress,--a mission of angels of woes. (Psa. 78:49)

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Psa. 105:28• ²⁸He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word. (Psa. 105:28)

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Prov. 4:19• ¹⁹The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble. (Prov. 4:19)

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Eccl. 2:14• ¹⁴The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walketh in darkness; but I myself also perceived that one event happeneth to them all. (Eccl. 2:14)

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Eccl. 6:4• ⁴For it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness; (Eccl. 6:4)

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Isa. 8:21‑22• ²¹And they shall pass through it, hard pressed and hungry; and it shall come to pass when they are hungry, they will fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and will gaze upward:
²²and they will look to the earth; and behold, trouble and darkness, gloom of anguish; and they shall be driven into thick darkness. (Isa. 8:21‑22)

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Matt. 27:45• ⁴⁵Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour; (Matt. 27:45)

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Mark 15:33• ³³And when the sixth hour was come, there came darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour; (Mark 15:33)

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Luke 23:44• ⁴⁴And it was about the sixth hour, and there came darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. (Luke 23:44)

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2 Peter 2:4,17• ⁴For if God spared not the angels who had sinned, but having cast them down to the deepest pit of gloom has delivered them to chains of darkness to be kept for judgment;
¹⁷These are springs without water, and mists driven by storm, to whom the gloom of darkness is reserved for ever. (2 Peter 2:4,17)

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Jude 6,13• ⁶And angels who had not kept their own original state, but had abandoned their own dwelling, he keeps in eternal chains under gloomy darkness, to the judgment of the great day;
¹³raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shames; wandering stars, to whom has been reserved the gloom of darkness for eternity. (Jude 6,13)

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Rev. 16:10‑11• ¹⁰And the fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast; and its kingdom became darkened; and they gnawed their tongues with distress,
¹¹and blasphemed the God of the heaven for their distresses and their sores, and did not repent of their works. (Rev. 16:10‑11)

even darkness which may be felt.

Heb. that one may feeldarkness.

• The heavenly bodies, so widely worshipped in Egypt, had hitherto not been dealt with by the plagues sent upon the land. The ninth plague, the completion of the number so important in connection with their deities, was to obliterate the host of heaven from the sight of their worshippers, and to put a stop to the chief religious ceremonies of the country. The temples were orientated to the sun, the moon, or to a special star,86 and their deities were connected with different heavenly bodies. The highest point of the religious ceremony in honor of the celestial deity, or personified orb, occurred at the moment when the particular heavenly body to which the temple was orientated, cast its first bright beam between the double rows of sphinxes and obelisks, through the great gateways and the inner entrances and their doors, and right into the narrowed recess at the extreme end of the building, where, in the sanctuary, the image of the emblem of the god was placed. At that moment, which occurred but on rare occasions during the year, the image shone brilliantly for some two minutes in the sun or star beam. All around was in deep shadow, and the incident of the shining of the image was called the “manifestation” of the god. (“The Third Three Plagues of Egypt” by H.F. Witherby)

• In sun worship various deities were represented: for example, at the time of the plagues, in its rising the sun was called Horus, on the horizon; in its light and heat, giving life and animation to the universe, it was called Ra; in its setting, it was called Tum. “I am Khopri in the morning, Ra at noon, Tumu in the evening,” was the declaration of the god of his titles, according to the legend. (“The Third Three Plagues of Egypt” by H.F. Witherby)

J. N. Darby Translation

And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out thy hand toward the heavens, that there may be darkness in the land of Egypt—so that one may feel darkness.

W. Kelly Translation

And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out thy hand toward the heavens, that there may be darkness in the land of Egypt—so that one may feel darkness.

WK Verse Note

(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)