15For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 12-20)Here is, I. The invasion of the land by the locusts— God’s great army , Joel 2:11. God bids Moses stretch out his hand (Exod. 10:12), to beckon them, as it wee (for they came at a call), and he stretched forth his rod , Exod. 10:13. Compare Exod. 9:22 , 23 . Moses ascribes it to the stretching out, not of his own hand, but the rod of God , the instituted sign of God’s presence with him. The locust...
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