Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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.
Other Adam Clarke entries containing 1 Samuel 5:9:
Psalms 78:66
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