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Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

1 Samuel 5:6

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 fields, made a great waste;" which words Houbigant admits into his text; though they seem likely to have been a mere gloss in the Margin taken from the 4th and 5th verses of the next chapter.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    EMERODS - A corruption of “hemorrhoids.” It is mentioned Deuteronomy 28:27 among the diseases with which God threatened to punish the Israelites for disobedience....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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;...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HAND. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, for the judgments inflicted by it. EMERODS. See note on Deuteronomy 28:27....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ תִּכְבַּ֧ד יַד ־יְהוָ֛ה אֶל ־הָ אַשְׁדֹּוד

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Ark in Ashdod....

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Samuel 5:6 hand H3027 LORD H3068 heavy H3513 (H8799) Ashdod H796 ravaged H8074 (H8686) struck H5221 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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;...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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,...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 5:11; 1 Samuel 5:7; 1 Samuel 5:9; 1 Samuel 6:4; 1 Samuel 6:5;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Emerods — The piles....

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