1 Samuel 5:7

Contextual Overview

⁶ But the hand of Yahweh was heavy on them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with tumors, even Ashdod and the borders thereof. ⁶ Then the Lord 's heavy hand struck the people of Ashdod and the nearby villages with a plague of tumors. ⁶ But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with tumours, even Ashdod and the borders thereof. ⁶ The Lord was hard on the people of Ashdod and their neighbors. He caused them to suffer and gave them growths on their skin. ⁶ The Lord attacked the residents of Ashdod severely, bringing devastation on them. He struck the people of both Ashdod and the surrounding area with sores. ⁶ But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, [even] Ashdod, and its borders. ⁶ But the hand of Yahweh was heavy on them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and struck them with tumors, even Ashdod and the borders of it. ⁶Then the hand of the LORD was heavy on the people of Ashdod, and He caused them to be dumbfounded and struck them with tumors, both Ashdod and its territory. ⁶ The hand of the Lord was heavy against the people of Ashdod, and he terrified and afflicted them with tumors, both Ashdod and its territory. ⁶ Forsothe the hond of the Lord was maad greuouse on men of Azotus, and he distriede hem, and he smoot Azotus and the coostis therof in the priuyere part of buttokis; and townes and feeldis in the myddis of that cuntrey buyliden out, and myis camen forth; and greet confusioun of deth was maad in the citee.

Bible Verse Review
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saw: 1 Samuel 4:8, Exodus 8:8, Exodus 8:28, Exodus 9:28, Exodus 10:7, Exodus 12:33

The ark: 1 Samuel 6:20, 2 Samuel 6:9, 1 Chronicles 13:11-13, 1 Chronicles 15:13

upon Dagon our god: 1 Samuel 5:3, 1 Samuel 5:4, Jeremiah 46:25, Jeremiah 48:7

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 5:6 - the hand 1 Samuel 6:3 - known 1 Samuel 6:5 - off your Psalms 32:4 - hand Psalms 44:2 - how thou didst afflict Ezekiel 39:21 - and my

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so,.... That many of their inhabitants were taken away by death, and others afflicted with a painful disease; all which they imputed to the ark being among them:

they said, the ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us; like the Gergesenes, who besought Christ to depart their coasts, having more regard for their swine than for him:

for his hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon, our god, not the hand of the ark, unless they took it for a god, but the hand of the God of Israel; in this they were right, and seem to have understood the case better than the other lords they after consulted; his hand was upon Dagon, as appeared his fall before the ark, and upon them by smiting with the haemorrhoids, the memory of which abode with the Philistines for ages afterwards; for we are told w that the Scythians, having plundered the temple of Venus at Ashkelon, one of their five principalities, the goddess inflicted upon them the female disease, or the haemorrhoids; which shows that it was thought to be a disease inflicted by way of punishment for sacrilege, and that it was still remembered what the Philistines suffered for a crime of the like nature.

w Herodot. Clio, sive, l. 1. c. 105.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 5:7. His hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god. — Here the end was completely answered: they now saw that they had not prevailed against Israel, on account of their god being more powerful than Jehovah; and they now feel how easily this God can confound and destroy their whole nation.