Exodus 9:10

10 So they got some ashes and stood before the king; Moses threw them into the air, and they produced boils that became open sores on the people and the animals. ¹

Exodus 9:10 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 9:10

And they took ashes of the furnace
Which was near at hand, perhaps in Pharaoh's kitchen: and stood before Pharaoh;
not in his palace, or in any covered room, but in some place open to the heaven, a courtyard or garden adjoining to the palace: and Moses sprinkled it up towards heaven; cast it up in the air; this being again ascribed to Moses, seems to confirm the notion of those who think he only did it; but, for the reasons before given, both may be thought to be concerned: and it became a boil breaking forth with blains, upon man, and upon
beast;
these failing down in the manner before described, on whomsoever they lighted, whether man or beast, produced sore boils and inflammations, and raised blisters and blotches; and hence arose those lying scandalous stories of the Israelites being a scabby people, and of their being driven out of Egypt on that account, affirmed by Manetho, Lysimachus, Diodorus Siculus, Tacitus, Justin, and others; (See Gill on Exodus 4:6) with this plague the first vial poured forth on mystical Egypt, or antichrist, has some agreement, ( Revelation 16:2 ) .

Exodus 9:10 In-Context

8 Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "Take a few handfuls of ashes from a furnace; Moses is to throw them into the air in front of the king.

9 They will spread out like fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and everywhere they will produce boils that become open sores on the people and the animals."

10 So they got some ashes and stood before the king; Moses threw them into the air, and they produced boils that became open sores on the people and the animals.

11 The magicians were not able to appear before Moses, because they were covered with boils, like all the other Egyptians.

12 But the Lord made the king stubborn and, just as the Lord had said, the king would not listen to Moses and Aaron.

Cross References

• 1. 9.10Revelation 16.2.