1 Samuel 5:12
For there was a very great confusion in all the city, when the ark of the God of Israel entered there; and those who lived and + 5:12 Gr. dead.died not were smitten with emerods; and the cry of the city went up to heaven.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods: and the cry of the city went up to heaven.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 12:30And Pharao rose up by night, and his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in all the land of Egypt, for there was not a house in which there was not one dead.
1 Kings 19:17And it shall come to pass, that him that escapes from the sword of Azael, Ju shall slay; and him that escapes from the sword of Ju, Elisaie shall slay.
Jeremiah 14:2Judea has mourned, and her gates are emptied, and are darkened upon the earth; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
Jeremiah 48:3and all the Jews that were with him in Massepha, and all the Chaldeans that were found there.
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 5:7-12
The Distress of the Philistines. ( b. c. 1120.) 6 But the hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof. 7 And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us: for his hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god. 8 They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? And they… Read the whole commentary →