Exodus 9:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

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 them, and reclaimed by Jehovah to his service, in punishment of its deluded votaries, the worshippers of the creature, in preference to the great Creator. We may further observe, that as the Egyptians caused the Israelites to labour with cruel oppression in the furnace and the brick-kilns, there was here, as is frequently observable in the divine chastisements, a just retaliation. To this sixth plague of Egypt, answers the first plague, Revelation 16:2 upon the spiritual Egypt.

Exodus 9:8

8 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.