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1 Samuël 5:6

Listen to 1 Samuël 5:6
6 Doch de hand des HEEREN was zwaar over die van Asdod, en verwoestte hen; en Hij sloeg ze met spenen, Asdod en haar landpalen.

1 Samuël 5:6 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 5:6

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 them;
either by the disease after mentioned they were smitten with, or rather with some other, since that seems not to be mortal, though painful; it may be with the pestilence:

and smote them with emerods;
more properly haemorrhoids, which, as Kimchi says, was the name of a disease, but he says not what; Ben Gersom calls it a very painful disease, from whence comes a great quantity of blood. Josephus F21 takes it to be the dysentery or bloody flux; it seems to be what we commonly call the piles, and has its name in Hebrew from the height of them, rising up sometimes into high large tumours:

even Ashdod and the coasts thereof;
not only the inhabitants of the city were afflicted with this disease, but those of the villages round about.


FOOTNOTES:

F21 Antiqu. l. 6. c. 1. sect. 1.
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1 Samuël 5:6 In-Context

4 Toen zij nu des anderen daags des morgens vroeg opstonden, ziet, Dagon lag op zijn aangezicht ter aarde gevallen voor de ark des HEEREN; maar het hoofd van Dagon, en de beide palmen zijner handen afgehouwen, aan den dorpel; alleenlijk was Dagon daarop overgebleven.
5 Daarom treden de priesters van Dagon, en allen, die in het huis van Dagon komen, niet op den dorpel van Dagon te Asdod, tot op dezen dag.
6 Doch de hand des HEEREN was zwaar over die van Asdod, en verwoestte hen; en Hij sloeg ze met spenen, Asdod en haar landpalen.
7 Toen nu de mannen te Asdod zagen, dat het alzo toeging, zo zeiden zij: Dat de ark des Gods van Israel bij ons niet blijve; want Zijn hand is hard over ons, en over Dagon, onzen god.
8 Daarom zonden zij heen, en verzamelden tot zich al de vorsten der Filistijnen, en zij zeiden: Wat zullen wij met de ark des Gods van Israel doen? En die zeiden: Dat de ark des Gods van Israel rondom Gath ga. Alzo droegen zij de ark des Gods van Israel rondom.
The Dutch Staten Vertaling translation is in the public domain.

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