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Exodus 9:8

Take handfuls <03947 02651> [Take to.]

This was a significant command; not only referring to the fiery furnace, which was a type of the slavery of the Israelites, but to a cruel rite common among the Egyptians. They had several cities styled Typhonian, in which at particular seasons they sacrificed men, who were burnt alive; and the ashes of the victim were scattered upwards in the air, with the view, probably, that where any atom of dust was carried, a blessing was entailed. The like, therefore, was done by Moses, though with a different intention, and more certain effect. See Bryant, pp. 93-106.

8:16

Exodus 9:10

9:10

boils <07822> [a boil.]

De 28:27

Exodus 10:21-22

10:21

Extend <05186> [Stretch.]

9:22

darkness ........ darkness <02822> [darkness.]

As the Egyptians not only worshipped the light and sun, but also paid the same veneration to night and darkness, nothing could be more terrible than this punishment of palpable and coercive darkness, such as their luminary Osiris could not dispel. See Bryant, pp. 141-160.