But the hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod, in an oppressive visitation, probably in the form of a plague of field-mice, to which the context seems to point, and he destroyed them, caused the death of many of them, and smote them with emerods, with an infectious skin-disease in the form of boils and ulcers, even Ashdod and the coast thereof, the entire vicinity.
Verse 1 Samuel 5:6. _SMOTE THEM WITH EMERODS_] The word עפלים _apholim_, from עפל _aphal_, to be _elevated_, probably means the disease called the _bleeding piles_, which appears to have been accompan...
EMERODS - A corruption of “hemorrhoids.” It is mentioned Deuteronomy 28:27 among the diseases with which God threatened to punish the Israelites for disobedience....
6. THE ARK IN THE HANDS OF THE PHILISTINES AND ITS RETURN CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The ark in the house of Dagon (1 Samuel 5:1)_ 2. The Philistines smitten by Jehovah (1 Samuel 5:6) The ark was brought to As...
1 SAMUEL 5. THE ARK IN THE PHILISTINE CITIES. 1 Samuel 5:1. Ashdod. 1 Samuel 5:8. Gath. 1 Samuel 5:10. Ekron: see Joshua 11:22;...
HAND. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, for the judgments inflicted by it. EMERODS. See note on Deuteronomy 28:27....
_But the hand of the Lord_ Rather, AND. "The hand of the Lord" = the putting forth of His might. Chastisement now overtook the people as well as the god. _he destroyed them, and smote them with emerod...
SMOTE THEM WITH EMERODS— See Deuteronomy 28:27 and compare 1 Samuel 5:9. At the end of this verse the LXX and Vulgate add, that "a great number of _mice_ started up out of the earth, and over-running...
The Captivity of the Ark, 1 Samuel 5:1 to 1 Samuel 7:17. _The Ark in the Temple of Dagon. 1 Samuel 5:1-6_ And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer unto Ashdod. 2 When the...
_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._ The hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod. T...
THE ARK AMONG THE PHILISTINES 1. Ashdod] on an elevation overlooking the Philistine plain midway between Gaza and Joppa, and 3 m. from the Mediterranean. Its importance consisted in the fact that it...
In 1 Samuel 6 we have a plague of mice as well as of haemorrhoids. Some regard the introduction of this second plague as due to a scribe. On the other hand, LXX inserts a notice of the mice also in 1...
ISRAEL’S FIRST KING 1 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 5 THE *ARK OF GOD CAUSES TROUBLE FOR THE *PHILISTINES V1 When the *Philistines stole the *ark of God they took it from Ebenezer to the town o...
BUT THE HAND OF THE LORD WAS HEAVY UPON THEM OF ASHDOD. — A painful and distressing sickness, in the form, perhaps, of tumours — (the word _emerods_ should be spelt _hemorrhoids_) — broke out among th...
וַ תִּכְבַּ֧ד יַד ־יְהוָ֛ה אֶל ־הָ אַשְׁדֹּוד
CHAPTER VII. _ THE ARK AMONG THE PHILISTINES._ 1 Samuel 5:1; 1 Samuel 6:1 ALTHOUGH the history in Samuel is silent as to the doings of the Philistines immediately after their great victory over Isra...
THE CAPTURED ARK BRINGS TROUBLE 1 Samuel 5:1 Dagon's fall before the Ark of God has a sublime significance. In the evening, as the priests left the temple, the hideous image stood erect on its pedest...
This is a story of supreme and arresting interest, showing as it does how, when the people of God fail to bear testimony for Him among the nations, He becomes His own witness. The Ark was not a charm...
Emerods. The particular disorder which attacked them, (Psalm lxxvii. 66,) is very uncertain. Some say it was the dysentery, or the fistula, or the venereal disease, &c. Eusebius believes that it was i...
(6) В¶ 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...
The first Book of Samuel (or of Kings as with some) brings before us that great change for which the Book of Ruth was a preparation, and in order to which the Spirit of God closed it with the generati...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4, 5, AND 6. In chapter 4 the enemies of God and of His people display their strength; the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel. God, in overrul...
BUT THE HAND OF THE LORD WAS HEAVY ON THEM OF ASHDOD,.... Not only on their idol, but on themselves; it had crushed him to pieces, and now it fell heavy on them to their destruction: AND HE DESTROYED...
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. Ver. 6. _But the hand of the Lord was heavy upon them...
_The hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod_ Since they were so blind as not to see his hand in throwing down their god, he smote them with such sore plagues in their own bodies as made them s...
1 The Philistines hauing brought the Arke into Ashdod, set it in the house of Dagon. 3 Dagon is smitten downe and cut in pieces, and they of Ashdod smitten with Emerods. 8 So God dealeth with them o...
Though God had allowed the Philistines to gain the victory, He very soon spoils their pleasure in having captured the ark, taking it to Ashdod. They think the most fit place for it is in the house of...
6-12 The hand of the Lord was heavy upon the Philistines; he not only convinced them of their folly, but severely chastised their insolence. Yet they would not renounce Dagon; and instead of seeking...
THE HAND OF THE LORD WAS HEAVY UPON THEM OF ASHDOD, for their incorrigibleness by the foregoing documents. HE DESTROYED THEM; partly by wasting their land, 1 SAMUEL 6:5; and partly by killing many of...
1 Samuel 5:6 hand H3027 LORD H3068 heavy H3513 (H8799) Ashdod H796 ravaged H8074 (H8686) struck H5221 ...
THE ARK OF GOD BRINGS MISERY AND PLAGUE ON THE PHILISTINES WHO DISRESPECT IT (1 SAMUEL 5:6). What happened in the house of Dagon was not the only thing that was to trouble the Philistines. Soon a drea...
CONTENTS: Ark of God a curse to Philistines. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Sacred signs are not things that God is tied to or that man can trust to for blessing. His presence may be a savour of life...
1 Samuel 5:1. _Ashdod,_ afterwards called Azotus. Acts 8:40. 1 Samuel 5:2. _The ark and set it by Dagon._ See Judges 10:6;...
1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 5:6 The TUMORS, together with an apparently abnormal number of mice in the area (1 Samuel 6:5), have led most commentators to identify the disease as bu
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 5:6. “HE DESTROYED THEM.” From 1 Samuel 6:4; 1 Samuel 6:11; 1 Samuel 6:18, where, besides the vot
EXPOSITION THE ARK OF GOD IN PHILISTIA (1 Samuel 5:1). 1 SAMUEL 5:1 THE PHILISTINES TOOK THE ARK OF GOD. The silence of Scri
Now the Philistines took this ark of the covenant, and they brought it to one of their cities on the coast the city of Ashdod. And they put the ark of the covenant in their temple of their god Dagon,...
1 Samuel 5:11; 1 Samuel 5:7; 1 Samuel 5:9; 1 Samuel 6:4; 1 Samuel 6:5;...
THE ARK IN THE LAND OF THE PHILISTINES 1 Samuel 5:1; 1 Samuel 6:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There are several things we think should be emphasized. 1. EBENEZER MEANS "HITHERTO HATH THE LORD HELPED US." Wh...
Emerods — The piles....