For 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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Gill's Exposition
For they covered the face of the whole earth,.... Of the whole land of Egypt; and this seems to be the instance in which these locusts differed from all others, that had been or would be, even in…
Adam Clarke
There remained not any green thing - See Clarke's note on Exo 10:4.
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
was darkened i.e. hidden (cf. v.5) by the multitude of locusts resting upon it. Cf. the description of Thomson, cited on v.5, -the whole face of the mountain was black with them"; and of the Jaffa…
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