1 Samuel 5:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof.

Emerods

Psalm 78:66

Thereof

1 Samuel 6:4

Bible References

Emerods

After they had brought it around, the hand of the Lord was against the city with very great confusion; and He smote the men of the city, both young and old, so that tumors broke out on them.

So you shall make likenesses of your tumors and likenesses of your mice that ravage the land, and you shall give glory to the God of Israel; perhaps He will ease His hand from you, your gods, and your land.

“The Lord will smite you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors and with the scab and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed.

“Is it not calamity to the unjust
And disaster to those who work iniquity?

drove His adversaries backward;

He put on them an everlasting reproach.

Thereof

Then they said, “What shall be the guilt offering which we shall return to Him?” And they said, “Five golden tumors and five golden mice according to the number of the lords of the Philistines, for one plague was on all of you and on your lords.