Psalms 105:28 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And they rebelled not against his word— Yet they were not obedient to his word. So the LXX and Syriac read; and thus it is rendered in the Liturgy of the Church of England. But Houbigant, thinking the present reading genuine, renders it, and his words were not changed; i.e. "what he had commanded to be done, was done." Mudge too is for the present reading. "The LXX (says he) read the passage without the negative, understanding it of the Egyptians." As it now stands, it must be understood of those things of nature to which the divine word was addressed; that they did not disobey it, though the Egyptians had: they readily executed it: and this is made probable by the clause before: He sent darkness, and it darkened; to express the quickness of the execution. He no sooner sent darkness, but it was in fact dark.