Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
A deep sleep - tardemah , the same word which is used to express the sleep into which Adam was cast, previous to the formation of Eve; Genesis 2:21.
A horror of great darkness - Which God designed to be expressive of the affliction and misery into which his posterity should be brought during the four hundred years of their bondage in Egypt; as the next verse particularly states.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Genesis 15:5
Exodus 6:28
1 Chronicles 7:21
Jeremiah 34:18
Acts 2:3
Acts 2:17
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