Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 5:9

9 Yùn dào zhī hòu , Yēhéhuá de shǒu gōngjī nà chéng , shǐ nà chéng de rén dàdà jīnghuāng , wúlùn dà xiǎo dōu shēng zhì chuāng .

Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 5:9 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 5:9

And it was so, that after they had carried it about
And at last placed it in the city of Gath;

the hand of the Lord was against the city with a very great
destruction:
greater than that at Ashdod, more persons were destroyed; the distemper sent among them was more epidemic and mortal:

and he smote the men of the city, both small and great;
high and low, persons of every class, rank, and station, young and old, men, women, and children:

and they had emerods in their secret parts;
and so had the men of Ashdod; and the design of this expression is, not to point at the place where they were, which it is well known they are always in those parts, but the different nature of them; the emerods or piles of the men of Ashdod were more outward, these more inward, and so more painful, and not so easy to come at, and more difficult of cure; for the words may be rendered,

and the emerods were hidden unto them
^F26; were inward, and out of sight; and perhaps this disease as inflicted on them might be more grievous than it commonly is now. Josephus ^F1 wrongly makes these to be the Ashkalonites, when they were the men of Gath.

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FOOTNOTES:

F26 (Mylpe Mhl wrtvyw) "et absconditi erant", Montanus; so Vatablus, Junius & Tremellius.
F1 Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 6. c. 1. sect. 1.)

Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 5:9 In-Context

7 Yà shí tū rén jiàn zhè guāngjǐng , jiù shuō , Yǐsèliè shén de yuē guì bùkĕ liú zaì wǒmen zhèlǐ , yīnwei tāde shǒu chóngchóng jiā zaì wǒmen hé wǒmen shén dà gún de shēnshang .

8 Jiù dǎfa rén qù qǐng Fēilìshì de zhòng shǒulǐng lái jùjí , wèn tāmen shuō , wǒmen xiàng Yǐsèliè shén de yuē guì yīngdāng zĕnyàng xíng ne . tāmen huídá shuō , kĕyǐ jiāng Yǐsèliè shén de yuē guì yùn dào Jiātè qù . yúshì jiāng Yǐsèliè shén de yuē guì yùn dào nàli qù .

9 Yùn dào zhī hòu , Yēhéhuá de shǒu gōngjī nà chéng , shǐ nà chéng de rén dàdà jīnghuāng , wúlùn dà xiǎo dōu shēng zhì chuāng .

10 Tāmen jiù bǎ shén de yuē guì sòng dào Yǐgélún . shén de yuē guì dào le , Yǐgélún rén jiù hǎn nāng qǐlai shuō , tāmen jiāng Yǐsèliè shén de yuē guì yùn dào wǒmen zhèlǐ , yào haì wǒmen hé wǒmen de zhòng mín .

11 Yúshì dǎfa rén qù qǐng Fēilìshì de zhòng shǒulǐng lái , shuō , yuàn nǐmen jiāng Yǐsèliè shén de yuē guì sòng huí yuán chù , miǎndé haì le wǒmen hé wǒmen de zhòng mín . yuánlái shén de shǒu chóngchóng gōngjī nà chéng , chéng zhōng de rén yǒu yīn jīnghuāng ér sǐ de .