Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Exodus 9:9
A boil breaking forth with blains — A burning scab, which quickly raised blisters and blains.
A boil breaking forth with blains — A burning scab, which quickly raised blisters and blains.
Verse Exodus 9:9. _SHALL BE A BOIL_] שחין _shechin_. This word is generally expounded, _an inflammatory swelling_, a _burning boil_; one of the most poignant afflictions, not immediately mortal, that...
A BOIL - Means probably a burning tumor or carbuncle breaking out in pustulous ulcers. The miracle consisting in the severity of the plague and its direct connection with the act of Moses....
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...
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...
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...
MAN. Hebrew. _'adam,_ with art.. mankind. BEAST. Other than those "in the field", Exodus 9:3....
_become fine dust_, &c. i.e. be dispersed in the air over the whole land in the shape of fine dust, which settling down on men and cattle, will produce boils. For _"âbâḳ_, fine, flying dust, cf. Isaia...
The _sixth_plague. The boils on men and cattle. Entirely P....
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...
A BOIL BREAKING FORTH WITH BLAINS— This should be rendered, _an inflammation breaking forth into blains;_ for _blains_ generally arise from inflammations, and more usually break forth into boils, than...
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...
_AND IT SHALL BECOME SMALL DUST IN ALL THE LAND OF EGYPT, AND SHALL BE A BOIL BREAKING FORTH WITH BLAINS UPON MAN, AND UPON BEAST, THROUGHOUT ALL THE LAND OF EGYPT._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
THE FIFTH, SIXTH, AND SEVENTH PLAGUES 1-7. The Fifth Plague:—Murrain, i.e. cattle plague. Visitations of cattle plague are not uncommon in Egypt. An outbreak in 1842 carried off 40,000 oxen. The mira...
BOIL BREAKING FORTH _with_ BLAINS] An inflamed swelling with pustules. In Deuteronomy 28:27 it is called the 'botch of Egypt.' Certain skin diseases are communicated to man from cattle, and the sixth...
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...
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...
וְ הָיָ֣ה לְ אָבָ֔ק עַ֖ל כָּל ־אֶ֣רֶץ
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...
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...
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...
_Blains. Pestiferous buboes or burning swellings. (Calmet) --- Thus were the pride and luxury of the Egyptians punished by Moses; and they who had kept the Hebrews in an iron furnace, were themselves...
Deuteronomy 28:27; Revelation 16:2....
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...
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...
AND IT SHALL BECOME SMALL DUST IN ALL THE LAND OF EGYPT,.... Which ashes, thrown up into the air, should be so multiplied and spread as to be over all the land of Egypt, and come down like showers of...
And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth [with] blains upon man, and upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt. Ver. 9. _A boil breaking forth._]...
_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...
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...
And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth with blains upon man and upon beast throughout all the land of Egypt. The soot, reduced to fine black dust a...
THE PLAGUE OF BOILS AND BLAINS...
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...
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...
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...
A burning scab, which quickly raised blains and blisters; whereby they were both vehemently inclined to scratch themselves, and yet utterly disenabled from it by its great soreness....
Exodus 9:9 dust H80 land H776 Egypt H4714 boils H7822 out H6524 (H8802) sores H76 man H120 beast...
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...
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...
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....
_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...
EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 9:9 The BOILS of the sixth plague are the first plague to affect the Egyptians physically. The plagues continue to grow both in what they show of the Lord’s power and in their di...
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...
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...
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...
a boil Leviticus 13:18 Deuteronomy 28:27 Deuteronomy 28:35 Job 2:7...