Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 5:7

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 .

Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 5:7 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 5:7

And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so
That many of their inhabitants were taken away by death, and others afflicted with a painful disease; all which they imputed to the ark being among them:

they said, the ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us;
like the Gergesenes, who besought Christ to depart their coasts, having more regard for their swine than for him:

for his hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon, our god,
not the hand of the ark, unless they took it for a god, but the hand of the God of Israel; in this they were right, and seem to have understood the case better than the other lords they after consulted; his hand was upon Dagon, as appeared his fall before the ark, and upon them by smiting with the haemorrhoids, the memory of which abode with the Philistines for ages afterwards; for we are told ^F23 that the Scythians, having plundered the temple of Venus at Ashkelon, one of their five principalities, the goddess inflicted upon them the female disease, or the haemorrhoids; which shows that it was thought to be a disease inflicted by way of punishment for sacrilege, and that it was still remembered what the Philistines suffered for a crime of the like nature.

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FOOTNOTES:

F23 Herodot. Clio, sive, l. 1. c. 105.

Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 5:7 In-Context

5 Yīncǐ , dà gún de jìsī hé yīqiè jìn Yàshítū , dà gún miào de rén dōu bú tā dà gún miào de mén jiàn , zhídào jīnrì .

6 Yēhéhuá de shǒu chóngchóng jiā zaì Yàshítū rénshēn shàng , baìhuaì tāmen , shǐ tāmen shēng zhì chuāng . Yàshítū hé Yàshítū de sì jìng dōu shì rúcǐ .

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 .