He sent darkness and made it dark; And they did not rebel against His words.
Parallel translations
- WEB He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn’t rebel against his words.
- KJV He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.
- 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.
- 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
Cross-references · 8
- Ps 99:7He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud. They kept his testimonies, the statute that he gave them.
- 2 Pet 2:17These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
- Luke 23:44–45It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.
- Joel 2:31The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
- 2 Pet 2:4For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;
- Ezek 2:4–8The children are impudent and stiff-hearted. I am sending you to them, and you shall tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh.’
- Exod 10:21–23Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.”
- Joel 2:2A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.
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