He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.
Parallel translations
- WEB He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn’t rebel against his words.
- BSB He sent darkness, and it became dark—yet they defied His words.
- NKJV He sent darkness, and made it dark; And they did not rebel against His word.
- NASB He sent darkness and made it dark; And they did not rebel against His words.
- NLT The Lord blanketed Egypt in darkness, for they had defied his commands to let his people go.
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Quick answer
God sent darkness over the land, and His messengers obeyed His word. It matters because the plague of darkness showed His command over creation.
Overview
This recalls the ninth plague, three days of thick darkness (Exodus 10:21-23). The phrase 'they didn't rebel against his words' most naturally describes Moses and Aaron faithfully carrying out God's command. The darkness over Egypt, while Israel had light, displayed God's power to judge and to distinguish His people.
Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 99:7He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them.
- 2 Pet 2:17These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
- Luke 23:44–45And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.
- Joel 2:31The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
- 2 Pet 2:4For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
- Ezek 2:4–8For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD.
- Exod 10:21–23And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.
- Joel 2:2A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
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