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Ezekiel 32:8

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee,.... Or, "all the lights of the light" ; the rest of the luminaries of heaven; the other five planets, as Kimchi, besides the sun and moon:and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord God; as there must needs be, the sun, moon, and stars, and all the lights of heaven, being darkened above: there seems to be an allusion to the thick darkness that was formerly over the land of Egypt; and this is a figure and representation of that darkness that shall be in the kingdom of the beast, or spiritual Egypt, yet to come; see Ex 10:21.

The Targum is,"tribulation as darkness shall cover thy land.'

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