And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.
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Gill's Exposition
And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt,.... Being raised up by the wind in the places where they were generated, they flew and spread themselves all over the land, being in a wonderful…
Barnes' Notes
Went up - At a distance the locusts appear hanging, as it were, like a heavy cloud over the land; as they approach they seem to rise, and they fill the atmosphere overhead upon their arrival. Over all…
Adam Clarke
Before them there were no such locusts, etc. - They exceeded all that went before, or were since, in number, and in the devastations they produced. Probably both these things are intended in the…
Here is, I. The invasion of the land by the locusts - God's great army, Joe 2:11. God bids Moses stretch out his hand (Exo 10:12), to beckon them, as it wee (for they came at a call), and he stretched…
Cambridge Bible
went up came up(v.12).
borders(Heb. border)] i.e. territory, as Exo 8:2; Exo 10:4; Exo 10:19 (cf. p. 56).
grievous Exo 8:24; Exo 9:3; Exo 9:18; Exo 9:24.
before them, &c. cf. v.6b, Exo 9:18 b, 24 b,…
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