Psalmet 78:66

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I goditi armiqtë e tij në kurriz dhe i mbuloi me një turp të përjetshëm.

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And he: 1 Samuel 5:6, 1 Samuel 6:4, Job 40:12

he put: Jeremiah 23:40

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:27 - emerods Joshua 18:1 - set up 1 Samuel 5:9 - and they had emerods 1 Kings 18:27 - must be awaked Psalms 74:11 - pluck it out Psalms 107:40 - contempt Isaiah 31:2 - arise Zephaniah 3:8 - rise

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts,.... Not the Israelites, as Kimchi interprets it, but the Philistines, who in another battle were put to flight, and turned their backs, and so were smitten in their hinder parts; or rather this has reference to the Philistines being smitten with haemorrhoids, or piles in their posteriors, while the ark was retained a captive by them, 1 Samuel 5:6, and so the Targum paraphrases it,

"and he smote them that troubled them with haemorrhoids in their posteriors;''

the Greek version, as quoted by Suidas c, is, "he smote his enemies on the back parts of the seat"; signifying, he says, a disease, modestly expressed:

he put them to a perpetual reproach; either by causing their idol Dagon to fall before his ark, and be broken upon the threshold of the house of the idol; in memory of which the priests ever after, nor any that came in thither, trod upon the threshold, 1 Samuel 5:3, or rather through their sending golden images of their haemorrhoids, and golden mice along with the ark, which were reserved to their perpetual reproach: other instances of the Lord's regard to Israel follow, in providing a proper place for the ark, and appointing a suitable governor over the people.

c In voce εδρα.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And he smote his enemies in the hinder part - From behind; that is, as they fled. There are two ideas here: one, that they fled at his approach, or turned their backs; the other, that as they fled, he smote and destroyed them.

He put them to a perpetual reproach - As discomfited; as defeated and scattered; as unable to contend with him. The allusion is, probably, to the victories of David, occurring after the events related in the preceding verses.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 78:66. He smote his enemies in the hinder part — This refers to the hemorrhoids with which he afflicted the Philistines. See the note on 1 Samuel 5:6-10.