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Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary

Exodus 10:19

An east wind brought the locusts, and now a west wind carried them off. Whatever point of the compass the wind is in, it is fulfilling God's word, and turns about by his counsel; the wind blows where it listeth for us, but not where it listeth for him; he directeth it under the whole heaven.

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See also Exodus 10:19 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Exodus 10:19. _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 S...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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 “rus...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 10 THE EIGHTH AND NINTH PLAGUES _ 1. The eighth plague: locusts (Exodus 10:1)_ 2. Pharaoh's renewed confession and refusal (Exodus 10:16) 3. The ninth plague: darkness (Exodus 10:21) 4. Ph...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EXODUS 7:14 TO EXODUS 12:36. THE TEN PLAGUES. How deeply this series of events imprinted itself on the mind and heart of the nation is shown by the fulness with which the three sources report them. J...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    8°. A LOCUST SWARM (Exodus 10:1 J; Exodus 10:12 a, Egypt, E; Exodus 10:13 b J; Exodus 10:14 a E;...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    MIGHTY STRONG. Figure of speech _Synonymia._ App-6. Locusts are always brought by east wind and carried away by west wind. COASTS. bounds, or borders....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _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_(Genesis 12:8; Genesis 13:14, &c.). The idiom must have formed itself...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    At Moses" entreaty, the locusts are removed....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Exodus 7:14 to Exodus 11:5 _The first nine Plagues_ The narrative of the Plagues, like that of the preceding Chapter s, is composite. The details of the analysis depend partly upon literary criteria...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The _eighth_plague. The locusts. From J, with short passages from E....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    A MIGHTY STRONG WEST-WIND— _A wind of the sea,_ according to the Hebrew. Thus Jehovah rendered obedient to his pleasure, either of punishment or mercy, those _winds,_ and that element of _air,_ which...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    The Text of EXODUS TRANSLATION 10 And Je-ho-vah said unto Mo-ses, Go in unto Pha-raoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servant, that I may show these my signs in the midst of them,...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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._...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    RED SEA] The Gk. name, given perhaps on account of the red coral which lines its floors and sides. The Heb. name is _Yam Suph_, which means 'Sea of Reeds.' 21-29. The Ninth Plague:—Darkness....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE EIGHTH AND NINTH PLAGUES 1-20. The Eighth Plague:—Locusts....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    EXODUS: ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION THE *ISRAELITES LEAVE EGYPT EXODUS CHAPTER S 1 TO 18 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 10 *PLAGUE NUMBER 8: *LOCUSTS – VERSES 1-20 MOSES WARNS *PHARAOH AGAI...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE LORD TURNED A MIGHTY STRONG WEST WIND... — As locusts come, so they commonly go, with a wind. They cannot fly far without one. It often happens that a wind blows them into the sea. Pallas says, sp...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יַּהֲפֹ֨ךְ יְהוָ֤ה רֽוּחַ ־יָם֙ חָזָ֣ק מְא

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER X. _ THE EIGHTH PLAGUE._ Exodus 10:1. The Lord would not command His servant again to enter the dangerous presence of the sullen prince, without a reason which would sustain his faith: "For...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE PLAGUES OF LOCUSTS AND OF DARKNESS Exodus 10:12 The locust is the most terrible plague of Eastern lands. The heat intense; the air languid; the sound as of a strong breeze; the sun darkened by a...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    It would seem at this point that Moses himself was overawed by the fearful process of judgment and so before the next plague God announced to His servant a new reason for the whole movement. It was in...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the (g) Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt. (g) The water seemed red, bec...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _West. Hebrew sea, (Mediterranean) to the north and west of Egypt. --- Red sea. Hebrew, "of suph," or green herbs, which abound there. It has also a reddish appearance in some places, from the coral b...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    What an awful scripture is that, and how suited to Pharaoh's case. Proverbs 29:1....

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    There is hardly a book of the Old Testament that stands out in more decided contrast with the book of Genesis than the one which follows it most closely. And this is the more striking, because God emp...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 5 THROUGH 13. At the news of the goodness of God, the people adore Him; but the struggle against the power of evil is another matter. Satan will not let the p...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THE LORD TURNED A MIGHTY STRONG WEST WIND,.... He turned the wind the contrary way it before blew; it was an east wind that brought the locusts, but now it was changed into a west wind, or "a wind...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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. Ver. 19. _A mighty strong west wi...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 God threatneth to send locusts. 7 Pharaoh, moued by his seruants, inclineth to let the Israelites goe. 12 The plague of the locusts. 16 Pharaoh sueth to Moses. 21 The plague of darkenesse. 24 P...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And the Lord turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts and cast them into the Red Sea, on the eastern boundary of Egypt, where they were destroyed in the water; there remained not...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    H. THE LOCUSTS Exodus 10:1-20 1And Jehovah said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh; for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I might shew [may do] these my signs before him [in t...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    PLAGUE NO.8 -- LOCUSTS (vs.1-20) Again the Lord reminds Moses that He Himself had hardened Pharaoh's heart and the hearts of his servants in order that He might publicly show His signs before them,...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    CAST: _ Heb._ fastened...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    12-20 God bids Moses stretch out his hand; locusts came at the call. An army might more easily have been resisted than this host of insects. Who then is able to stand before the great God? They cover...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    A MIGHTY STRONG WEST WIND; Heb. _a wind of the sea_, i.e. coming from the sea, called there the great sea, and the Mediterranean Sea, from whence came the north-west wind, which did blow the locusts d...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Exodus 10:19 LORD H3068 turned H2015 (H8799) very H3966 strong H2389 west H3220 wind H7307 took H5375 locusts...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE EIGHTH PLAGUE - THE PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS (EXODUS 10:1). We note in this passage a distinct change of tone. No longer does Yahweh commence with the opening, ‘let My people go' (compare Exodus 8:1; Exo...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Exodus 10:1. _And the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might shew these my signs before him: and that thou mayest tell in...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Plagues of locusts and darkness. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron, Pharaoh. CONCLUSION: God's terms of reconcilliation are fixed and cannot be disputed or lowered. Men must meet the demand of...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Exodus 10:2. _In the ears of thy son._ The Hebrew prophets in their sermons, and the psalmists in their songs, have recorded those wonderful works of the Lord; and the doctrines and inferences fairly...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Intreat the Lord your God._ LESSONS 1. God’s hasty judgments may work hasty passions in sinners, though no repentance. 2. Vengeance may make persecutors call in God’s servants for help as hastily...

  • The children's great texts of the Bible by James Hastings

    CHILDREN OF THE WEST WIND An exceeding strong west wind. Exodus 10:19. We have left the West wind to the last (the texts of the other sermons in this series are Exodus 14:21; Ezekiel 1:4;...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 10:19 RED SEA. See note on 13:18. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 10:16_ A FALSE REPENTANCE Pharaoh had driven Moses and Aaron from his presence, but now he recalls them in great haste, and with much respect. The day will...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE EIGHTH PLAGUE. Notwithstanding his self-condemnation and acknowledgment of the righteousness of God in all the judgments that had been sent upon him (Exodus 9:27), Pharaoh no sooner fou...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    And the Lord said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might show these my signs before him: And that thou mayest tell in the ears of th...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    a mighty Exodus 10:13 cast. Heb. fastened. the Red sea Exodus 13:18 Exodus 15:4 Joel 2:20...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    An east — wind brought the locusts and now a west — wind carried them off. Whatever point of the compass the wind is in, it is fulfilling God's word, and turns about by his counsel; the wind blows whe...

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