1 Samuele 5:9

9 Ma, poichè fu trasportata in Gat, la mano del Signore fu sopra la città, con gran turbamento; ed egli percosse gli uomini della città, dal maggiore al minore; e vennero loro delle morici nascoste.

1 Samuele 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.)

1 Samuele 5:9 In-Context

7 E quelli di Asdod, veggendo che così andava la cosa, dissero: L’Arca dell’Iddio d’Israele non dimorerà appresso di noi; perciocchè la sua mano è aspra sopra noi, e sopra Dagon, nostro dio.

8 Perciò, mandarono ad adunare tutti i principi de’ Filistei appresso a loro, e dissero: Che faremo noi dell’Arca dell’Iddio d’Israele? Ed essi dissero: Trasportisi l’Arca dell’Iddio d’Israele in Gat. Così l’Arca dell’Iddio d’Israele fu trasportata in Gat.

9 Ma, poichè fu trasportata in Gat, la mano del Signore fu sopra la città, con gran turbamento; ed egli percosse gli uomini della città, dal maggiore al minore; e vennero loro delle morici nascoste.

10 Perciò mandarono l’Arca di Dio in Ecron; e, come l’Arca di Dio giunse in Ecron, quei di Ecron sclamarono, dicendo: Hanno trasportata l’Arca dell’Iddio d’Israele a me, per far morir me, e il mio popolo.

11 E per questa cagione mandarono a raunare tutti i principi de’ Filistei, e dissero loro: Rimandate l’Arca dell’Iddio d’Israele, e ritorni al suo luogo, e non faccia morir me, e il mio popolo; perciocchè v’era uno spavento di morte per tutta la città; e la mano del Signore era molto aggravata in quel luogo.