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the Week of Proper 21 / Ordinary 26
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King James Version

Psalms 105:28

He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Darkness;   Thankfulness;   Thompson Chain Reference - Darkness;   Light-Darkness;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Confessions and Credos;   Salvation;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hallelujah;   Plagues of Egypt;   Psalms;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Plagues of Egypt;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Darkness;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
He sent darkness and made it dark;And they did not rebel against His words.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He sent darkness and made it dark; And they did not rebel against His words.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He sent darknes, & it was darke: and they went not from his wordes.
Darby Translation
He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.
New King James Version
He sent darkness, and made it dark; And they did not rebel against His word.
Literal Translation
He sent darkness and made it dark; and they did not rebel against His Word.
Easy-to-Read Version
He sent darkness to cover their land, but the Egyptians did not listen to him.
World English Bible
He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn't rebel against his words.
King James Version (1611)
Hee sent darknesse, and made it darke: and they rebelled not against his word.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He sent darcknesse and it was darcke, for they were not obedient vnto his worde.
Amplified Bible
He sent [thick, oppressive] darkness and made the land dark; And Moses and Aaron did not rebel against His words.
American Standard Version
He sent darkness, and made it dark; And they rebelled not against his words.
Bible in Basic English
He sent black night and made it dark; and they did not go against his word.
Update Bible Version
He sent darkness, and made it dark; And they did not rebel against his words.
Webster's Bible Translation
He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.
New English Translation
He made it dark; they did not disobey his orders.
Contemporary English Version
Moses and Aaron obeyed God, and he sent darkness to cover Egypt.
Complete Jewish Bible
He sent darkness, and the land grew dark; they did not defy his word.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He sent darkenesse, and made it darke: and they were not disobedient vnto his commission.
George Lamsa Translation
He sent darkness, and made it dark; and yet they rebelled against his word.
Hebrew Names Version
He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn't rebel against his words.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He sent darkness, and it was dark; and they rebelled not against His word.
New Living Translation
The Lord blanketed Egypt in darkness, for they had defied his commands to let his people go.
New Life Bible
He sent darkness and made the land dark. They did not fight against what He told them to do.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
He sent forth darkness, and made it dark; yet they rebelled against his words.
English Revised Version
He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his words.
Berean Standard Bible
He sent darkness, and it became dark-for had they not defied His words?
New Revised Standard
He sent darkness, and made the land dark; they rebelled against his words.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He sent darkness, and made it dark, But they rebelled against his words;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(104-28) He sent darkness, and made it obscure: and grieved not his words.
Lexham English Bible
He sent darkness and made it dark, and they did not rebel against his words.
English Standard Version
He sent darkness, and made the land dark; they did not rebel against his words.
New American Standard Bible
He sent darkness and made it dark; And they did not rebel against His words.
New Century Version
The Lord sent darkness and made the land dark, but the Egyptians turned against what he said.
Good News Translation
God sent darkness on the country, but the Egyptians did not obey his command.
Christian Standard Bible®
He sent darkness, and it became dark— for did they not defy His commands?
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He sente derknessis, and made derk; and he made not bitter hise wordis.
Young's Literal Translation
He hath sent darkness, and it is dark, And they have not provoked His word.
Revised Standard Version
He sent darkness, and made the land dark; they rebelled against his words.

Contextual Overview

25 He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants. 26 He sent Moses his servant; and Aaron whom he had chosen. 27 They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham. 28 He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word. 29 He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish. 30 Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the chambers of their kings. 31 He spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, and lice in all their coasts. 32 He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land. 33 He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the trees of their coasts. 34 He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sent: Exodus 10:21-23, Joel 2:2, Joel 2:31, Luke 23:44, Luke 23:45, 2 Peter 2:4, 2 Peter 2:17

rebelled: Psalms 99:7, Ezekiel 2:4-8

Reciprocal: Exodus 10:22 - thick darkness Job 38:19 - darkness Amos 5:8 - maketh Mark 15:33 - darkness Acts 27:20 - neither

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He sent darkness, and made it dark,.... The land of Egypt; either he, God, or it, darkness, made it dark, or it was made dark; the Targum is,

"made them dark;''

that is, the Egyptians; darkness was a messenger of the Lord's, who forms the light and creates darkness; it came at his word and covered all the land, excepting the dwellings of Israel; even a thick darkness that might be felt, so that the Egyptians could not see one another, nor rise from their place for three days together; such as sometimes rises at sea, and is said to be so dark, that for five days together day and night are the same; this was the ninth of the ten plagues,

Exodus 10:21 and was an emblem of the darkness which is on the minds of men in an unregenerate state; who are covered with gross darkness, and are even darkness itself; which is universal as to persons, and the powers and faculties of their souls concerning divine things: and it also bears some resemblance to the darkness which will be in the kingdom of the beast upon the pouring out of the fifth vial, or plague, on spiritual Egypt, Revelation 16:10.

And they rebelled not against his word: the plague of darkness, and the rest of the plagues which God commanded; these, as they were his servants, were not disobedient to him, they came at his word; see

Psalms 105:31, so Jarchi interprets it; or else Moses and Aaron, who were sent of God to inflict those plagues, did not refuse to obey the divine orders; though Pharaoh threatened them hard, yet they feared not the wrath and menaces of the king, but did as the Lord commanded them. Aben Ezra, Kimchi, and Ben Melech, mention both these senses, but the latter seems most agreeable. The Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions, leave out the word "not"; and so some copies of the Vulgate Latin version, and Apollinarius in his metaphrase, "and they rebelled against his word"; that is, the Egyptians did not hearken to the word of the Lord, nor to the signs and wonders he wrought, but their hearts were hardened, and they would not let Israel go. But this is contrary to the original text; though Arama interprets it of them, that they did not rebel, but confessed this miracle, which being the greatest of all, as he observes, is first mentioned. Dr. Lightfoot y thinks it is to be understood of Israel, and of some special part of obedience performed by them; which he takes to be circumcision, which they had omitted in Egypt, at least many of them, and was necessary to their eating of the passover, which was to be done in a few days, Exodus 12:48 and it was a fit time to perform this service while darkness for three days was upon the Egyptians; in which they were shut up by the Lord, that they might not take the opportunity against his people, now sore through circumcision.

y Works, vol. 1. p. 707.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He sent darkness, and made it dark - Exodus 10:21-23.

And they rebelled not against his word - More literally, “his words.” The reference is to Moses and Aaron; and the idea, as expressed here, is that they were obedient to the command of God; that they went and did what he ordered them; that, although he required them to go before a mighty and proud monarch, to denounce against him the vengeance of heaven, and to be the instruments of bringing upon the land unspeakably severe judgments, yet they did not shrink from what God commanded them to do. They were true to his appointment, and showed themselves to be faithful messengers of God. Others, however, suppose that this refers to the Egyptians, and that it is to be taken as a question: “And did they not rebel against his word?” The language might bear this, and the translators of the Septuagint seem to have so understood it, for they render it, “And they rebelled against his words.” But the most natural construction is that in our common version, and the design is evidently to commend the boldness and the fidelity of Moses and Aaron.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 105:28. They rebelled not against his word. — Instead of ולא מרו velo maru, "they rebelled," some think that a ש shin has been lost from before the word, and that it should be read ולא שמרו velo shamru, "they did not observe or keep his word." Or the words may be spoken of Moses and Aaron; they received the commandment of God, and they did not rebel against it. They believed what he had spoken, and acted according to his orders. It could not be spoken of the Egyptians; for they rebelled against his words through the whole course of the transactions.


 
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