Exodus 9:10

10 So Moses and Aaron took ashes from a furnace and went and stood before the king. Moses threw ashes into the air, which caused boils to break out and become sores on people and animals.

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 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "Fill your hands with ashes from a furnace. Moses, throw the ashes into the air in front of the king of Egypt.

9 The ashes will spread like dust through all the land of Egypt. They will cause boils to break out and become sores on the skin of people and animals everywhere in the land."

10 So Moses and Aaron took ashes from a furnace and went and stood before the king. Moses threw ashes into the air, which caused boils to break out and become sores on people and animals.

11 The magicians could not stand before Moses, because all the Egyptians had boils, even the magicians.

12 But the Lord made the king stubborn, so he refused to listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the Lord had said.