Exodus 10:21
The Ninth Blow: Darkness The LORD said to Moses,“Extend your hand toward heaven so that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness so thick it can be felt.”
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- Ps 105:28 : 28 He made it dark; they did not disobey his orders.
- Exod 9:22 : 22 Then the LORD said to Moses,“Extend your hand toward the sky that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on people and on animals, and on everything that grows in the field in the land of Egypt.”
- Deut 28:29 : 29 You will feel your way along at noon like the blind person does in darkness and you will not succeed in anything you do; you will be constantly oppressed and continually robbed, with no one to save you.
- Ps 35:6 : 6 May their path be dark and slippery, as the LORD’s angel chases them!
- Ps 78:49 : 49 His raging anger lashed out against them, He sent fury, rage, and trouble as messengers who bring disaster.
- Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of the wicked is like gloomy darkness; they do not know what they stumble over.
- Eccl 2:14 : 14 The wise man can see where he is going, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also realized that the same fate happens to them both.
- Eccl 6:4 : 4 Though the stillborn child came into the world for no reason and departed into darkness, though its name is shrouded in darkness,
- Isa 8:21-22 : 21 They will pass through the land destitute and starving. Their hunger will make them angry, and they will curse their king and their God as they look upward. 22 When one looks out over the land, he sees distress and darkness, gloom and anxiety, darkness and people forced from the land.
- Matt 27:45 : 45 Jesus’ Death Now from noon until three, darkness came over all the land.
- Mark 15:33 : 33 Jesus’ Death Now when it was noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.
- Luke 23:44 : 44 It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon,
- 2 Pet 2:4 : 4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but threw them into hell and locked them up in chains in utter darkness, to be kept until the judgment,
- 2 Pet 2:17 : 17 These men are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm, for whom the utter depths of darkness have been reserved.
- Jude 1:6 : 6 You also know that the angels who did not keep within their proper domain but abandoned their own place of residence, he has kept in eternal chains in utter darkness, locked up for the judgment of the great Day.
- Jude 1:13 : 13 wild sea waves, spewing out the foam of their shame; wayward stars for whom the utter depths of eternal darkness have been reserved.
- Rev 16:10-11 : 10 Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast so that darkness covered his kingdom, and people began to bite their tongues because of their pain. 11 They blasphemed the God of heaven because of their sufferings and because of their sores, but nevertheless they still refused to repent of their deeds.
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- Exod 10:22-232 verses90%
22 So Moses extended his hand toward heaven, and there was absolute darkness throughout the land of Egypt for three days.
23 No one could see another person, and no one could rise from his place for three days. But the Israelites had light in the places where they lived.
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20 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not release the Israelites.
- Exod 9:22-232 verses77%
22 Then the LORD said to Moses,“Extend your hand toward the sky that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on people and on animals, and on everything that grows in the field in the land of Egypt.”
23 When Moses extended his staff toward the sky, the LORD sent thunder and hail, and fire fell to the earth; so the LORD caused hail to rain down on the land of Egypt.
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21 The people kept their distance, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.
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12 The LORD said to Moses,“Extend your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up over the land of Egypt and eat everything that grows in the ground, everything that the hail has left.”
13 So Moses extended his staff over the land of Egypt, and then the LORD brought an east wind on the land all that day and all night. The morning came, and the east wind had brought up the locusts!
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28 He made it dark; they did not disobey his orders.
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22 to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
- Exod 14:20-212 verses73%
20 It came between the Egyptian camp and the Israelite camp; it was a dark cloud and it lit up the night so that one camp did not come near the other the whole night.
21 Moses stretched out his hand toward the sea, and the LORD drove the sea apart by a strong east wind all that night, and he made the sea into dry land, and the water was divided.
- Exod 11:9-102 verses73%
9 The LORD said to Moses,“Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.”
10 So Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not release the Israelites from his land.
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7 Your fathers cried out for help to the LORD; he made the area between you and the Egyptians dark, and then drowned them in the sea. You witnessed with your very own eyes what I did in Egypt. You lived in the wilderness for a long time.
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1 The Eighth Blow: Locusts The LORD said to Moses,“Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, in order to display these signs of mine before him,
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8 The Sixth Blow: Boils Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,“Take handfuls of soot from a furnace, and have Moses throw it into the air while Pharaoh is watching.
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21 The LORD said to Moses,“When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders I have put under your control. But I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.
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20 So I will extend my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders that I will do among them, and after that he will release you.
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33 So Moses left Pharaoh, went out of the city, and spread out his hands to the LORD, and the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain stopped pouring on the earth.
- Exod 14:26-272 verses72%
26 The LORD said to Moses,“Extend your hand toward the sea, so that the waters may flow back on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen!”
27 So Moses extended his hand toward the sea, and the sea returned to its normal state when the sun began to rise. Now the Egyptians were fleeing before it, but the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the middle of the sea.
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4 Moses said,“This is what the LORD has said:‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt,
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5 Let darkness and the deepest shadow claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let whatever blackens the day terrify it!
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15 They covered the surface of all the ground, so that the ground became dark with them, and they ate all the vegetation of the ground and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Nothing green remained on the trees or on anything that grew in the fields throughout the whole land of Egypt.
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12 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not listen to them, just as the LORD had predicted to Moses.
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35 So Pharaoh’s heart remained hard, and he did not release the Israelites, as the LORD had predicted through Moses.
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10 Then the LORD said to Moses,
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8 I will darken all the lights in the sky over you, and I will darken your land, declares the Sovereign LORD.
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11 why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.
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4 Pharaoh will not listen to you. I will reach into Egypt and bring out my regiments, my people the Israelites, from the land of Egypt with great acts of judgment.
5 Then the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD, when I extend my hand over Egypt and bring the Israelites out from among them.
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19 The magicians said to Pharaoh,“It is the finger of God!” But Pharaoh’s heart remained hard, and he did not listen to them, just as the LORD had predicted.
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10 So they took soot from a furnace and stood before Pharaoh, Moses threw it into the air, and it caused festering boils to break out on both people and animals.
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13 Moses said to the LORD,“When the Egyptians hear it– for you brought up this people by your power from among them–
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16 And as for you, lift up your staff and extend your hand toward the sea and divide it, so that the Israelites may go through the middle of the sea on dry ground.
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1 The Tenth Blow: Death The LORD said to Moses,“I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt; after that he will release you from this place. When he releases you, he will drive you out completely from this place.
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10 So now go, and I will send you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.”
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12 and he displayed great power and awesome might in view of all Israel.
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22 When one looks out over the land, he sees distress and darkness, gloom and anxiety, darkness and people forced from the land.
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27 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he was not willing to release them.
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18 I am going to cause very severe hail to rain down about this time tomorrow, such hail as has never occurred in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.
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20 Don’t you realize the LORD’s day of judgment will bring darkness, not light– gloomy blackness, not bright light?
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8 But the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he chased after the Israelites. Now the Israelites were going out defiantly.
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11 You approached and stood at the foot of the mountain, a mountain ablaze to the sky above it and yet dark with a thick cloud.
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11 If I were to say,“Certainly the darkness will cover me, and the light will turn to night all around me,”
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15 For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with plague, and you would have been destroyed from the earth.