An east wind - See (Exodus 10:4). Moses is careful to record the natural and usual cause of the evil, portentous as it was both…

An east wind. —The Septuagint translates as νότον, “a south wind,” probably because locusts most commonly enter Egypt fro…

See how he is obliged to come to his knees eventually. He will be up again soon, for his heart is not humbled, though he is eating his own words. A…

And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt
His hand, with his rod in it:

and the Lo…

God commands Moses to stretch out his hand; locusts came at the call. An army might more easily have been resisted than this host of insects. Who t…