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.

Thereof

Bible References

Emerods

1 Samuel 5:9
And it came to pass that, after they had carried it about, the hand of Jehovah was against the city with very great panic; and he smote the men of the city, both small and great, and hemorrhoids broke out upon them.
1 Samuel 6:5
And ye shall make images of your hemorrhoids, and images of your mice that destroy the land, and give glory to the God of Israel: perhaps he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
Deuteronomy 28:27
Jehovah will smite thee with the ulcers of Egypt, and with boils, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.
Job 31:3
Is not calamity for the unrighteous? and misfortune for the workers of iniquity?
Psalm 78:66
And he smote his adversaries in the hinder part, and put them to everlasting reproach.

Thereof

1 Samuel 6:4
Then they said, What is the trespass-offering which we shall return to him? And they said, Five golden hemorrhoids, and five golden mice, the number of the lords of the Philistines; for one plague is upon them all, and upon your lords.