SEV Biblia, Chapter 5:6
¶ Pero se agravó la mano del SEÑOR sobre los de Asdod, y los destruyó, y los hirió con hemorroides en Asdod y en todos sus términos.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 5:6
Verse 6. Smote them with emerods] The word µylp[ apholim, from lp[ aphal, to be elevated, probably means the disease called the bleeding piles, which appears to have been accompanied with dysentery, bloody flux, and ulcerated anus. The Vulgate says, Et percussit in secretiori parte natium; "And he smote them in the more secret parts of their posteriors." To this the psalmist is supposed to refer, Psa. lxxviii. 66, He smote all his enemies in the HINDER PARTS; he put them to a perpetual reproach. Some copies of the Septuagint have exezesen autoiv eiv tav nauv, "he inflamed them in their ships:" other copies have eis tav edrav, "in their posteriors." The Syriac is the same. The Arabic enlarges: "He smote them in their posteriors, so that they were affected with a dysenteria." I suppose them to have been affected with enlargements of the haemorrhoidal veins, from which there came frequent discharges of blood.
The Septuagint and Vulgate make a very material addition to this verse: kai meson thv cwrav authv anefuesin muev? kai egeneto sugcusiv qanatou megalh en th polei; Et ebullierunt villae et agri in medio regionis illius; et nati sunt mures, et facta est confusio mortis magnae in civitate: "And the cities and fields of all that region burst up, and mice were produced, and there was the confusion of a great death in the city." This addition Houbigant contends was originally in the Hebrew text; and this gives us the reason why golden mice were sent, as well as the images of the emerods, (chap. vi. 4,) when the ark was restored.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 6. But the hand of the Lord was heavy on them of Ashdod , etc.] 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 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.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 6-12 - The hand of the Lord was heavy upon the Philistines; he not onl convinced them of their folly, but severely chastised their insolence Yet they would not renounce Dagon; and instead of seeking God's mercy they desired to get clear of his ark. Carnal hearts, when they smar under the judgments of God, would rather, if it were possible, put his far from them, than enter into covenant or communion with him, and see him for their friend. But their devices to escape the Divine judgment only increase them. Those that fight against God will soon have enoug of it __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ותכבד 3513 יד 3027 יהוה 3068 אל 413 האשׁדודים 796 וישׁמם 8074 ויך 5221 אתם 853 בעפלים 6076 את 853 אשׁדוד 795 ואת 853 גבוליה׃ 1366
