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出埃及记 10:13

摩西就向埃及地伸杖,整整的一日一夜,耶和華把東風吹在地上;到了早晨,東風把蝗蟲吹來了。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Animals;   Hypocrisy;   Locust;   Plague;   Scofield Reference Index - Miracles;   Thompson Chain Reference - God's;   Judgments, God's;   Miracles;   Moses' Rod;   Plagues;   Rod;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Anger of God, the;   Insects;   Locust, the;   Miracles Wrought through Servants of God;   Wind, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Locust;   Miracle;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Spirit;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Locust;   Plague;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Locust;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Exodus, Book of;   Locust;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Exodus;   Leviticus;   Moses;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Locust;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Locusts;   Miracles;   Wind;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Plagues of egypt;   Red sea;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Plagues, the Ten,;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Plagues of Egypt;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Exodus, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Day and Night;   Exodus, the Book of;   Locust;   Plagues of Egypt;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Aaron;   Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
摩 西 就 向 埃 及 地 伸 杖 , 那 一 昼 一 夜 , 耶 和 华 使 东 风 刮 在 埃 及 地 上 ; 到 了 早 晨 , 东 风 把 蝗 虫 刮 了 来 。

Contextual Overview

12 The Lord told Moses, "Raise your hand over the land of Egypt, and the locusts will come. They will spread all over the land of Egypt and will eat all the plants the hail did not destroy." 13 So Moses raised his walking stick over the land of Egypt, and the Lord caused a strong wind to blow from the east. It blew across the land all that day and night, and when morning came, the east wind had brought the locusts. 14 Swarms of locusts covered all the land of Egypt and settled everywhere. There were more locusts than ever before or after, 15 and they covered the whole land so that it was black. They ate everything that was left after the hail—every plant in the field and all the fruit on the trees. Nothing green was left on any tree or plant anywhere in Egypt. 16 The king quickly called for Moses and Aaron. He said, "I have sinned against the Lord your God and against you. 17 Now forgive my sin this time. Pray to the Lord your God, and ask him to stop this punishment that kills." 18 Moses left the king and prayed to the Lord . 19 So the Lord changed the wind. He made a very strong wind blow from the west, and it blew the locusts away into the Red Sea. Not one locust was left anywhere in Egypt. 20 But the Lord caused the king to be stubborn again, and he did not let the Israelites go.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

east wind: Exodus 14:21, Genesis 41:6, Psalms 78:26, Psalms 107:25-28, Psalms 148:8, Jonah 1:4, Jonah 4:8, Matthew 8:27

Reciprocal: Exodus 7:9 - Take Exodus 10:19 - a mighty Numbers 11:31 - a wind Psalms 109:23 - I am tossed Proverbs 30:27 - The locusts Jeremiah 51:16 - bringeth Nahum 3:15 - make thyself many as the locusts

Cross-References

Genesis 10:11
From there he went to Assyria, where he built the cities of Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, and Calah.
Genesis 10:12
He also built Resen, the great city between Nineveh and Calah.
Jeremiah 46:9
Horsemen, charge into battle! Chariot drivers, drive hard! March on, brave soldiers— soldiers from the countries of Cush and Put who carry shields, soldiers from Lydia who use bows.
Ezekiel 30:5
Cush, Put, Lydia, Arabia, Libya, and some of my people who had made an agreement with Egypt will fall dead in war.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt,.... His hand, with his rod in it:

and the Lord brought an east wind upon the land, all that day and all that night; all that day after he had been driven from Pharaoh, and after he had stretched out his hand with his rod in it over Egypt, which was the seventh of the month Abib, and all the night following. This Jehovah did, who holds the winds in his fist, and brings them out of his treasures, whose will they obey, and whose word they fulfil:

and when it was morning; the morrow was come, Exodus 10:4 the eighth day of the month Abib:

the east wind brought the locusts; it was usual for these creatures to be taken up and carried with the wind, and brought into countries, as Pliny g and other writers attest. In the year 1527, a strong wind brought vast troops of locusts out of Turkey into Poland, which did much mischief; and in the year 1536 a wind from the Euxine Pontus brought such vast numbers of them into Podolia, as that for twenty miles round they devoured everything h. The word here used commonly signifies the east wind, and so the Jewish writers unanimously interpret it; and if those locusts were brought from the Red sea, into which they were carried, it must be by an east wind, since the Red sea was east of Egypt; but the Septuagint version renders it the "south wind", and which is approved of by De Dieu on the place, and by Bochart i; and the latter supposes these locusts were brought by a south wind out of Ethiopia, which lay to the south of Egypt, and where in the spring of the year, as it now was, were usually great numbers of locusts, and where were a people that lived upon them, as Diodorus Siculus k and Strabo l relate; who both say that at the vernal equinox, or in the spring, the west and southwest winds blowing strongly brought locusts into those parts; and the south wind being warm might contribute to the production, cherishing, and increasing of these creatures, and which are sometimes brought by a south wind. Dr. Shaw says m, the locusts he saw in Barbary, An. 1724 and 1725, were much bigger than our common grasshoppers, and had brown spotted wings, with legs and bodies of a bright yellow; their first appearance was toward the latter end of March, the wind having been for some time from the south.

g Nat. Hist. l. 11. c. 29. h Frantzii Hist. Animal. Sacr. par. 5. c. 4. p. 794. i Hierozoic. par. 2. l. 1. c. 15. col. 101, 102, & l. 4. c. 3. col. 463. Vid. Jablonski de Terra Goshen, Dissertat. 5. sect. 5. k Bibliothec, l. 3. p. 162. l Geograph. l. 16. p. 531. m Travels, p. 187. Edit. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

An east wind - See Exodus 10:4. Moses is careful to record the natural and usual cause of the evil, portentous as it was both in extent and in connection with its denouncement.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 10:13. The Lord brought an east wind — As locusts abounded in those countries, and particularly in AEthiopia, and more especially at this time of the year, God had no need to create new swarms for this purpose; all that was requisite was to cause such a wind to blow as would bring those which already existed over the land of Egypt. The miracle in this business was the bringing the locusts at the appointed time, and causing the proper wind to blow for that purpose; and then taking them away after a similar manner.


 
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