1 Kings 8:37

If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, [or] if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness [there be];

Ver. 37. If blasting mildew, &c.] These, the very heathens acknowledged to be God's judgments upon a land, and therefore had their feasts called Rubigalia and Floralia, to prevent them. a

Whatsoever sickness there be.] Physicians reckon up two thousand, and more.

a Plin., lib. xviii,