EXODUS 10:15 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.”
They covered all the ground until it was black. They devoured all that was left after the hail — all the fruit of the trees and all the crops of the fields. Nothing green remained on tree or plant in all the land of Egypt. Nothing green remained. The phrase is almost elegiac — the complete erasure of green from the most fertile agricultural land in the ancient world. The Nile Valley that made Egypt the breadbasket of the ancient Near East is stripped bare. Revelation 9:4 describes the locust-like creatures of the fifth trumpet being instructed not to harm the grass or any plant — a restriction that makes those locusts more terrifying, because the Exodus locusts had no such restriction. Egypt has no such divine protection. Every tree, every crop, every green thing is gone. What remained of Egyptian civilization's agricultural base after the hail is now consumed.
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