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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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field:
And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand; …
He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number, …
He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(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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