He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
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Gill's Exposition
He destroyed their vines with hail,.... Or "killed" (k) them; for there is a vegetative life in plants: this was the seventh plague of Egypt, attended with thunder and lightning, and was very terrible…
Barnes' Notes
He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar - The increase or the produce of their fields. Exo 10:12-14. The word חסיל châsı̂yl - is supposed to denote a species of locust rather than the…
The matter and scope of this paragraph are the same with the former, showing what great mercies God had bestowed upon Israel, how provoking they had been, what judgments he had brought upon them for…
Cambridge Bible
The eighth plague, Exo 10:1 ff.
their increase The produce of the land (Psa 67:6). The word rendered -caterpillar" is not used in Exodus, but often occurs elsewhere, and probably denotes the locust in…
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