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Exodus 10:14
The locusts swarmed across the land and settled over the entire territory of Egypt. Never before had there been so many locusts, and never again will there be.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Moses stands before Pharaoh as the Lord sends an east wind to deposit a plague of locusts across Egypt. The text records the swarm’s complete occupation of the territory before detailing the subsequent consumption of all remaining vegetation.
The words — The Hebrew verbs וַיַּעַל (wa-yā‘al, “it came up”) and וַיָּנַח (wa-yānāḥ, “it settled”) describe the locusts’ sudden ascent and heavy rest over the entire land of Egypt.
The thread — This event fulfills the warning in Exodus 10:5, mirrors the agricultural judgment in Psalm 78:46, and establishes the scale of devastation that precedes the unprecedented outcry of Exodus 11:6.
Why it lands — The passage requires the reader to acknowledge that the locusts’ unprecedented numbers demonstrate God’s direct control over nature and the irreversible nature of His judicial decree.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- Psalms 78:46 He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.
- Exodus 10:5 They will cover the face of the land so that no one can see it. They will devour whatever is left after the hail and eat every tree that grows in your fields.
- Exodus 11:6 Then a great cry will go out over all the land of Egypt. Such an outcry has never been heard before and will never be heard again.
- Deuteronomy 28:42 Swarms of locusts will consume all your trees and the produce of your land.
- 1 Kings 8:37 When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemy besieges them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,
- Psalms 105:34 He spoke, and the locusts came—young locusts without number.
- Joel 1:2 Hear this, O elders; and give ear, all who dwell in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your fathers?
- Joel 2:1 Blow the ram’s horn in Zion; sound the alarm on My holy mountain! Let all who dwell in the land tremble, for the Day of the LORD is coming; indeed, it is near—
- Revelation 9:3 And out of the smoke, locusts descended on the earth, and they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth.