Exodus 10:18

18 Moses left the king and prayed to the Lord.

Exodus 10:18 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 10:18

And he went out from Pharaoh
Without the city, as he had been wont to do: and entreated the Lord; prayed to him that he would remove the plague of the locusts from the land.

Exodus 10:18 In-Context

16 Then the king hurriedly called Moses and Aaron and said, "I have sinned against the Lord your God and against you.

17 Now forgive my sin this one time and pray to the Lord your God to take away this fatal punishment from me."

18 Moses left the king and prayed to the Lord.

19 And the Lord changed the east wind into a very strong west wind, which picked up the locusts and blew them into the Gulf of Suez. Not one locust was left in all of Egypt.

20 But the Lord made the king stubborn, and he did not let the Israelites go.