出埃及记 10:14

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

蝗蟲上到埃及全地來，停留在埃及全境。牠們非常眾多，以前沒有像這樣多的蝗蟲，以後也沒有。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
蝗 虫 上 来 ， 落 在 埃 及 的 四 境 ， 甚 是 厉 害 ； 以 前 没 有 这 样 的 ， 以 後 也 必 没 有 。

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

the locusts: Deuteronomy 28:42, 1 Kings 8:37, Psalms 78:46, Psalms 105:34, Psalms 105:35, Revelation 9:3-7

very grievous: Exodus 10:5, Joel 1:2-4

before: Exodus 10:6, Exodus 11:6, Joel 2:2

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:38 - for the locust 1 Samuel 6:5 - mice

Cross-References

Deuteronomy 2:23
The Cretan people came from Crete and destroyed the Avvites, who lived in towns all the way to Gaza; the Cretans destroyed them and took their place.)

1 Chronicles 1:12
Pathrusites, Casluhites, and Caphtorites. (The Philistines came from the Casluhites.)

Isaiah 11:11
At that time the Lord will again reach out and take his people who are left alive in Assyria, North Egypt, South Egypt, Cush, Elam, Babylonia, Hamath, and all the islands of the sea.

Jeremiah 44:1
Jeremiah received a message from the Lord for all the Jews living in Egypt—in the cities of Migdol, Tahpanhes, Memphis, and in southern Egypt. This was the message:

Jeremiah 47:4
The time has come to destroy all the Philistines. It is time to destroy all who are left alive who could help the cities of Tyre and Sidon. The Lord will soon destroy the Philistines, those left alive from the island of Crete.

Amos 9:7
The Lord says, "Israel, you are no different to me than the people of Cush. I brought Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Crete, and the Arameans from Kir.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt,.... Being raised up by the wind in the places where they were generated, they flew and spread themselves all over the land, being in a wonderful manner produced and multiplied by the power of God:

and rested in all the coasts of Egypt; in every part of it where the Egyptians dwelt, and where there were meadows, pastures, fields, gardens, orchards; here they lighted and fed, excepting the land of Goshen, where Israel dwelt, which must be thought to be exempted from this plague, as from the rest.

Very grievous were they; because of the mischief that they did, and because of their multitude, for they were innumerable, as the Vulgate Latin version renders it, and as it is, Psalms 105:34,

there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such; there were none before, and there would be none afterwards like them, which Moses knew by a spirit of prophecy. If this is to be understood of their size, they must be very large; in the year 1556, there were locusts at Milain that were a span long, and had six feet, and these like the feet of rats, and there was one four times bigger than the rest, which was taken and kept by a citizen, and would hiss like a serpent when it saw that no food was set before it n; yea, Pliny o speaks of locusts in India three feet long; and what Moses here says is not contradicted in Joel 2:2 because his words may be understood of the Chaldean army, of which the locusts were an emblem; and besides, each may be restrained to the country in which they were, as that none ever before or since were seen in Egypt as these, though they might be in other countries; and so those in Joel's time were such as never before or since were seen in the land of Judea, though they might be in other places.

n Frantzii Hist. Animal. Sacr. par. 5. c. 4. p. 800. o Ut supra. (Nat. Hist. l. 11. c. 29.)

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Went up - At a distance the locusts appear hanging, as it were, like a heavy cloud over the land; as they approach they seem to rise, and they fill the atmosphere overhead upon their arrival.

Over all the land - Travelers mention a cloud of locusts extending over 500 miles, and so compact while on the wing that it completely hid the sun. This passage describes a swarm unprecedented in extent.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 10:14. Before them there were no such locusts, &c. — They exceeded all that went before, or were since, in number, and in the devastations they produced. Probably both these things are intended in the passage. See Exodus 10:15.