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Amplified


He sent [thick, oppressive] darkness and made the land dark;
And Moses and Aaron 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.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

He sent darkness, and it became dark—
for did they not defy His commands?

International Standard Version

He sent darkness, and it became dark. Did they not rebel against his words?

A Conservative Version

He sent darkness, and made it dark. And they rebelled 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.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

He sent darkness, and he will darken; and they embittered not his words.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

He sent darkness and made [it] dark, and they did not rebel against his words.

Modern King James verseion

He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they did not rebel against His Word.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

He sent darkness, and it was dark; for they were not obedient unto his word.

NET Bible

He made it dark; they did not disobey his orders.

New Heart English Bible

He sent darkness, and made it dark. They did not rebel against his words.

The Emphasized Bible

He sent darkness, and made it dark, But they rebelled against his words;

Webster

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

World English Bible

He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn't rebel against his words.

Youngs Literal Translation

He hath sent darkness, and it is dark, And they have not provoked His word.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
He sent
שׁלח 
Shalach 
Usage: 848

חשׁך 
Choshek 
Usage: 78

and made it dark
חשׁך 
Chashak 
Usage: 17

References

Hastings

Context Readings

Praise To Yahweh For His Work On Behalf Of Israel

27
They exhibited His wondrous signs among them,
Great miracles in the land of Ham (Egypt).
28 
He sent [thick, oppressive] darkness and made the land dark;
And Moses and Aaron did not rebel against His words.
29
He turned Egypt’s waters into blood
And caused their fish to die.


Cross References

Psalm 99:7


He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud;
They kept His testimonies
And the statutes that He gave them.

Exodus 10:21-23

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, so that darkness may come over the land of Egypt, a darkness which [is so awful that it] may be felt.”

Ezekiel 2:4-8

I am sending you to them who are stubborn and obstinate children, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God.’

Joel 2:2


A day of darkness and gloom,
A day of clouds and of thick [dark] mist,
Like the dawn spread over the mountains;
There is a [pagan, hostile] people numerous and mighty,
The like of which has never been before
Nor will be again afterward
Even for years of many generations.

Joel 2:31


“The sun will be turned into darkness
And the moon into blood
Before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.

Luke 23:44-45

It was now about the sixth hour (noon), and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour (3:00 p.m.),

2 Peter 2:4

For if God did not [even] spare angels that sinned, but threw them into hell and sent them to pits of gloom to be kept [there] for judgment;

2 Peter 2:17

These [false teachers] are springs without water and mists driven by a tempest, for whom is reserved the gloom of black darkness.

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