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
After they had moved it, Jehovah threw the city into a great panic. He struck all the people in the city and they were covered with tumors.
1 Samuel 6:5
You must make these models of the tumors and of the mice that are ravaging your country. You must give honor to the God of Israel. Perhaps he will stop punishing you, your gods, and your land.
Deuteronomy 28:27
Jehovah will strike you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors and with the scab and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed.
Job 31:3
Is it not ruin for the wicked, disaster for those who do wrong?
Psalm 78:66
He struck his enemies from behind and disgraced them forever.
Thereof
1 Samuel 6:4
What guilt offering (trespass gift) shall we send him? The people asked. They answered: Five gold models of tumors and five gold mice, one of each for each Philistine king. The same plague was sent on all of you and on the five kings.