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Psalm 105:28
He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn’t rebel against his words.
26He sent Moses, his servant, and Aaron, whom he had chosen.
27They performed miracles among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
28He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn’t rebel against his words.
29He turned their waters into blood, and killed their fish.
30Their land swarmed with frogs, even in the rooms of their kings.
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God sends darkness over Egypt, a stark act of judgment followed by a brief statement about obedience to his words.
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Exodus 10:22Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.Both recount the darkness in Egypt; Exodus adds Moses’ outstretched hand and the three days that the darkness lasted.
Job 38:19“What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,Darkness is the shared subject: the psalm names God as its sender, while Job asks where it belongs.
Mark 15:33When the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.Darkness marks both accounts; Mark specifies a span of three hours, while the psalm emphasizes that God sent it.
Psalm 99:7He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud. They kept his testimonies, the statute that he gave them.Both passages speak of God’s words being obeyed, using the language of keeping his testimonies and refusing to rebel.
Amos 5:8Seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the …Both attribute darkness to God’s action: he sends darkness in the psalm and makes the day dark in Amos.
Exodus 10:21The LORD 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.”Both concern God sending darkness over Egypt; Exodus records his command to Moses and describes darkness that could be felt.
Joel 2:31The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD comes.Both describe darkness associated with divine judgment; Joel places the darkened sun before the great and terrible day of the LORD.
2 Peter 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;Both connect darkness with God’s judgment, though Peter speaks of angels held in pits rather than darkness over Egypt.
2 Peter 2:17These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.Darkness appears as judgment in both passages; Peter describes a blackness reserved forever, unlike the Egyptian event recalled in the psalm.
Luke 23:44–45It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.Both record darkness over a land; Luke marks its duration, while the psalm names God as the one who sent it.
Psalm 105:27They performed miracles among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.The preceding verse names wonders in the land of Ham; the darkness is one specific wonder in that same account.
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The darkness in Egypt came at God’s command. The verse records a fearful act of judgment, and even darkness remains under his rule.
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