swarmes of flies] Or, a mixture of noysome beasts. The word (in the Hebrew) which some read Harob, some Harc: (by reason of the similitude of the Hebrew letters Beth, and Caph) is by learned Hebricians translated by the word mixtian, or a mixed swarme, which (according to the sense, rather then the literall construction of the words) is in some Translations exprest by [all kinds of flies] and it is certaine, they were not of one sort, Psalms 78:45. but a compounded plague, consisting of many kinds of the lesser sort of flying creatures, as of ordinary flies, guats, bees, and hornets, which by the importunitie of their pressing upon them) might give them no rest, and some of them (with their stings) might wound and kill them, as Psalms 78:45. and as Josephus noteth, Antiq. lib 2. 100: 5.