THE EGYPTIAN EXILE FORESHADOWS ALL EXILES

Midrash Rabbah - Genesis 44:17

AND IT CAME TO PASS, THAT, WHEN THE SUN WAS GOING DOWN …AND, LO, A DREAD, EVEN A GREAT DARKNESS, FELL UPON HIM [Genesis 15:12]

DREAD refers to Babylon, as it is written, Then was Nebuchadnezzar filled with fury (Daniel 3:19).

DARKNESS refers to Media, which darkened the eyes of Israel with fasting and tribulation;

GREAT refers to Greece ….

FELL UPON HIM alludes to Edom [Rome], as it is written, The earth quaketh at the noise of their fall (Jeremiah 49:21).