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4 And when they arose early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on its face to the ground before the ark of the Lord. aThe head of Dagon and both the palms of its hands were broken off on the threshold; only1 Dagon’s torso was left of it.  
5 Therefore neither the priests of Dagon nor any who come into Dagon’s house atread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day.  
6 But the ahand of the Lord was heavy on the people of Ashdod, and He bravaged them and struck them with ctumors, both Ashdod and its dterritory.  
7 And when the men of Ashdod saw how it was, they said, “The ark of the aGod of Israel must not remain with us, for His hand is harsh toward us and Dagon our god.”  
8 Therefore they sent and gathered to themselves all the alords of the Philistines, and said, “What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?” And they answered, “Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried away to bGath.” So they carried the ark of the God of Israel away.  
9 So it was, after they had carried it away, that athe hand of the Lord was against the city with a very great destruction; and He struck the men of the city, both small and great,1 and tumors broke out on them.  
10 Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. So it was, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, “They have brought the ark of the God of Israel to us, to kill us and our people!”
11 So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go back to its own place, so that it does not kill us and our people.” For there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.
12 And the men who did not die were stricken with the tumors, and the acry of the city went up to heaven. 
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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1 Samuel 5:6

Smote them with emerods - The word apholim , from 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, Psalms 78:66, He smote all his enemies in the Hinder Parts; he put them to a perpetual reproach. Some copies of the Septuagint have , "he inflamed them in their ships:" other copies have ̔ , "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: · ; 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, (I Samuel 6:4), when the ark was restored.




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