from the sixth hour] About noon; for they began the day at six in the morning. So was that really performed which was spoken of, Am. 8. 9, 10. there was darknesse] To shew Gods dislike of their cruelty, and that he would not let the sun look upon the Sun of righteousnesse in his eclipse. A naturall eclipse it could not be, because the moon was then at the full, it being the midst of the Lunar moneth when the passeover was killed. over all the land] Of Judea, and the countreys adjoyning. Or, ever all the earth, as some suppose.