1 Samuel 5:12

12 Aqueles que não morreram foram afligidos com tumores, e o clamor da cidade subiu até o céu.

1 Samuel 5:12 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 5:12

And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods
As the inhabitants of Ashdod and Gath had been; this shows that those that died did not die of that disease, but of some other; very likely the pestilence:

and the cry of the city went up to heaven;
not that it was heard and regarded there, but the phrase is used to denote the greatness of it, how exceeding loud and clamorous it was; partly on the account of the death of so many of the inhabitants, their relations and friends; and partly because of the intolerable pain they endured through the emerods. There is something of this history preserved in a story wrongly told by Herodotus ^F2, who relates that the Scythians returning from Egypt passed through Ashkelon, a city of Syria (one of the five principalities of the Philistines), and that some of them robbed the temple of Venus there; for which the goddess sent on them and their posterity the disease of emerods, and that the Scythians themselves acknowledged that they were troubled with it on that account.

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FOOTNOTES:

F2 Clio, sive, l. 1. c. 105.

1 Samuel 5:12 In-Context

10 Então enviaram a arca de Deus para Ecrom.Quando a arca de Deus estava entrando na cidade de Ecrom, o povo começou a gritar: “Eles trouxeram a arca do deus de Israel para cá a fim de matar a nós e a nosso povo”.

11 Então reuniram todos os governantes dos filisteus e disseram: “Levem embora a arca do deus de Israel; que ela volte ao seu lugar; caso contrário ela matará a nós e a nosso povo”. Pois havia pânico mortal em toda a cidade; a mão de Deus pesava muito sobre ela.

12 Aqueles que não morreram foram afligidos com tumores, e o clamor da cidade subiu até o céu.