And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.
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Gill's Exposition
But the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart,.... For as yet he had not brought all his judgments on him he designed to bring:
so that he would not let the children of Israel go: though he had promised to…
Barnes' Notes
West wind - Literally, “a sea wind,” a wind blowing from the sea on the northwest of Egypt. Red sea - The Hebrew has the “Sea of Suph”: the exact meaning of which is disputed. Gesenius renders it…
Adam Clarke
A mighty strong west wind - רוח ים ruach yam, literally the wind of the sea; the wind that blew from the Mediterranean Sea, which lay north-west of Egypt, which had the Red Sea on the east. Here again…
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
turned, &c. i.e. caused by a change a west wind to blow.
west wind Heb. a sea-wind. The -west" is regularly in Heb. the sea(Gen 12:8; Gen 13:14, &c.). The idiom must have formed itself in Palestine,…