SEV Biblia, Chapter 5:9
Y aconteciķ que cuando la hubieron pasado, la mano del SEŅOR fue contra la ciudad con gran quebrantamiento; e hiriķ a los hombres de aquella ciudad desde el chico hasta el grande, que se llenaron de hemorroides.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 5:9
Verse 9. The hand of the Lord was against the city] As it was at Ashdod, so it was at Gath. The Vulgate says, Et computrescebant prominenter extales eorum; which conveys the idea of a bloody flux, dysentery, and ulcerated anus; and it adds, what is not to be found in the Hebrew text, nor many of the versions, except some traces in the Septuagint, Et fecerunt sibi sedes pelliceas, "And they made unto themselves seats of skins;" for the purpose of sitting more easy, on account of the malady already mentioned.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 9. And it was so, that after they had carried it about , etc.] 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 f105 ; were inward, and out of sight; and perhaps this disease as inflicted on them might be more grievous than it commonly is now. Josephus wrongly makes these to be the Ashkalonites, when they were the men of Gath.
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
ויהי 1961 אחרי 310 הסבו 5437 אתו 853 ותהי 1961 יד 3027 יהוה 3068 בעיר 5892 מהומה 4103 גדולה 1419 מאד 3966 ויך 5221 את 853 אנשׁי 376 העיר 5892 מקטן 6996 ועד 5704 גדול 1419 וישׂתרו 8368 להם עפלים׃ 6076
