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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 9:8

Furnace] i.e. the brick-kiln. The scattering of the fine ashes upon the wind was probably intended to be symbolic of the spread of the disease.

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See also Exodus 9:8 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    _THE_ SIXTH _PLAGUE - THE_ BOILS _AND_ BLAINS Verse Exodus 9:8. _HANDFULS OF ASHES OF THE FURNACE_] As one part of the oppression of the Israelites consisted In their labour in the brick-kilns, some...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    This marks a distinct advance and change in the character of the visitations. Hitherto, the Egyptians had not been attacked directly in their persons. It is the second plague which was not preceded by...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 9 THE FIFTH, SIXTH, AND SEVENTH PLAGUES _ 1. The fifth plague: the grievous murrain (Exodus 9:1)_ 2. The sixth plague: boils (Exodus 9:8) 3. The warning given (Exodus 9:13) 4. The seventh...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EXODUS 7:14 TO EXODUS 12:36. THE TEN PLAGUES. How deeply this series of events imprinted itself on the mind and heart of the nation is shown by the fulness with which the three sources report them. J...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EXODUS 9:8 P. 6°. BOILS ON MAN AND BEAST. Skin diseases are common troubles in Egypt. This may be meant for the Nile-scab, an irritating eruption, consisting of innumerable little red blisters, which...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The _sixth_plague. The boils on men and cattle. Entirely P....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Take to you your_ TWO HANDS _full of_ SOOT _from a_ KILN. The _kibshân_(also _v._10, Genesis 19:28; Exodus 19:18), different from both the -oven" of ch. Exodus 8:3, and the _kûr_, or furnace for

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Exodus 7:14 to Exodus 11:5 _The first nine Plagues_ The narrative of the Plagues, like that of the preceding Chapter s, is composite. The details of the analysis depend partly upon literary criteria...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    TAKE TO YOU HANDFULS OF ASHES, &C.— The matter of this plague, Ainsworth observes, is from the _fire;_ which also, being one of the elements which they deified, is here made the instrument of evil to...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 9 Then Je-ho-vah said unto Mo-ses, Go in unto Pha-raoh, and tell him, Thus saith Je-ho-vah, the God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me. (2) For if...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES AND UNTO AARON, TAKE TO YOU HANDFULS OF ASHES OF THE FURNACE, AND LET MOSES SPRINKLE IT TOWARD THE HEAVEN IN THE SIGHT OF PHARAOH._ Take to you handfuls ... The next pla...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    EXODUS: ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION THE *ISRAELITES LEAVE EGYPT EXODUS CHAPTER S 1 TO 18 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 9 *PLAGUE NUMBER 5: THE *EGYPTIANS’ ANIMALS BECOME ILL THE *PLAGUE TH...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE SIXTH PLAGUE. (8-10) Here, again, there is little question of what the plague was. Doubts may be entertained as to its exact character, and its proper medical designation, but all agree, and canno...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    ASHES OF THE FURNACE. — Furnaces in Egypt were either for the melting of metal, the preparing of lime, or the baking of bricks. It was probably from a furnace of this last kind that the ashes were now...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָה֮ אֶל ־מֹשֶׁ֣ה וְ אֶֽל

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE SIXTH PLAGUE. Exodus 9:8. At the close of the second triplet, as of the first, stands a plague without a warning, but not without the clearest connection between the blow and Him who deals it. T...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE MURRAIN OF CATTLE AND THE PLAGUE OF BOILS Exodus 9:1 The plague on the cattle reminds us that the whole creation groans and travails from the effects of human sin. See Romans 8:20. But those groa...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The patient method of God is manifest in that, notwithstanding the fact that Pharaoh had again broken faith, God again warned him. There being no evidence of repentance, the fifth plague fell upon the...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    There was an apt resemblance in this plague to what Israel had long experienced from the furnace of their oppressors. So God himself calls it: Deuteronomy 4:20....

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    There is hardly a book of the Old Testament that stands out in more decided contrast with the book of Genesis than the one which follows it most closely. And this is the more striking, because God emp...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    8._And the Lord said unto Moses. _God does not now postpone the time of the punishment, but redoubles the plagues in a continuous series; nor does he threaten Pharaoh, but, leaving him, executes the j...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 5 THROUGH 13. At the news of the goodness of God, the people adore Him; but the struggle against the power of evil is another matter. Satan will not let the p...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES AND UNTO AARON,.... This very probably was the day following, on the third day of the month Abib, about the eighteenth of March, that orders were given to bring on the fol...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And the LORD said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh. Ver. 8. _Sprinkle it toward the heaven....

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Take you handfuls of the ashes of the furnace_ Sometimes God shows men their sin in their punishment. They had oppressed Israel in the furnaces, and now the ashes of the furnace are made as much a te...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The murraine of beasts. 8 The plague of boyles, and blaines. 13 His message about the haile. 22 The plague of haile. 27 Pharaoh sueth to Moses, 35 but yet is hardened. 1 THEN the LORD said vnt...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE PLAGUE OF BOILS AND BLAINS...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And the Lord said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, soot from the ovens, AND LET MOSES SPRINKLE IT TOWARD THE HEAVEN IN THE SIGHT OF PHARAOH, who should again kn...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    F. THE BOILS AND BLAINS Exodus 9:8-12 8And Jehovah said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heaven [toward heaven] in the sig...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    PLAGUE NO.5 -- LIVESTOCK DISEASED (vs.1-7) Again the Lord requires Moses to repeat his demand to Pharaoh to let the people go. This time He warns that if Pharaoh refuses, He will send a very severe p...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    8-12 When the Egyptians were not wrought upon by the death of their cattle, God sent a plague that seized their own bodies. If lesser judgments do not work, God will send greater. Sometimes God shows...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Take to you handfuls of ashes, to mind them of their cruel usage of the Israelites in their furnace, of which see DEUTERONOMY 4:20 JEREMIAH 11:4. Both were to take them up, but Moses only to sprinkle...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Exodus 9:8 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) Moses H4872 Aaron H175 Take H3947 (H8798) handfuls H2651...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SIXTH PLAGUE - THE PLAGUE OF BOILS (EXODUS 9:8). Like the third plague in the first series this plague follows immediately after the previous one in the second series without warning. a Yahweh di...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Plagues of murraine, boils and hail. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Pharaoh, Aaron. CONCLUSION: The creature is made subject to vanity by reason of man's sins, liable to serve man's wickedness or...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Exodus 9:6. _All the cattle of Egypt died;_ that is, all were smitten with the murrain, whose unbelieving owners did not take care to house them: so we read in the twentieth verse concerning the hail....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _A boil breaking forth with blains._ LESSONS 1. Upon former warnings despised, God falls suddenly, on the wicked with vengeance unawares. 2. Though God can plague His enemies without instruments, y...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 9:8 Here the Lord commands MOSES to bring about the sign. Moses is maturing in his leadership role. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 9:8. Furnace] “For burning lime or smelting metals, and for the preparation of glass, out of which, while it is heated, a thick smoke ascends (Genesis 19:28) and in which ashe...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE SIXTH PLAGUE. The sixth plague was sent, like the third, without notice given. It was also, like the third, a plague which inflicted direct injury upon the person. There was a very sole...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Then the Lord said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, [Now we have the sixth demand.] and tell him, Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me. For if you refuse to...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    take to. This was a significant command; not only referring to Exodus 8:16...

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