1 Samuel 5:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods: and the cry of the city went up to heaven. ”

1 Samuel 5:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 5. The Ark in the Philistine Cities. 1 Samuel 5:1 . Ashdod. 1 Samuel 5:8 . Gath. 1 Samuel 5:10 . Ekron: see Joshua 11:22 ; Joshua 13:3 ; p 28. 1 Samuel 5:2 . Dagon: see Judges...
1 Samuel 5:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods: and the cry of the city went up to heaven. The men that died not - Some it seems were smitten with instant death; others with the haemorrhoids...
1 Samuel 5:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And the men that died not, &c.— The doctrine of intercommunity led the heathens into the custom of changing one tutelary deity for another; but the God of the Israelites had an absolute abhorre...
1 Samuel 5:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods: and the cry of the city went up to heaven. The cry of the city went up to heaven. The disease is attended with acute pain, and it is f...
1 Samuel 5:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Ark among the Philistines 1. Ashdod] on an elevation overlooking the Philistine plain midway between Gaza and Joppa, and 3 m. from the Mediterranean. Its importance consisted in the fact that...
1 Samuel 5:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER VII. THE ARK AMONG THE PHILISTINES. 1 Samuel 5:1-12 ; 1 Samuel 6:1-21 ALTHOUGH the history in Samuel is silent as to the doings of the Philistines immediately after their great victo...
1 Samuel 5:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Captured Ark Brings Trouble 1 Samuel 5:1-12 Dagon's fall before the Ark of God has a sublime significance. In the evening, as the priests left the temple, the hideous image stood erect on i...
1 Samuel 5:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This is a story of supreme and arresting interest, showing as it does how, when the people of God fail to bear testimony for Him among the nations, He becomes His own witness. The Ark was not a char...
1 Samuel 5:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(8) They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines unto them, 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 c...
1 Samuel 5:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods ,.... As the inhabitants of Ashdod and Gath had been; this shows that those that died did not die of that disease, but of some other; very lik...
1 Samuel 5:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods: and the cry of the city went up to heaven. Ver. 12. And the men that died not were smitten, &c. ] All that were smitten with emerods di...
1 Samuel 5:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

There was a deadly destruction through all the city That is, in every city where the ark of God came, some were struck with the pestilence and died, and others lingered under intolerable pains, whi...
1 Samuel 5:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Though God had allowed the Philistines to gain the victory, He very soon spoils their pleasure in having captured the ark, taking it to Ashdod. They think the most fit place for it is in the house of...
1 Samuel 5:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Distress of the Philistines. B. C. 1120. 6 But the hand of the L ORD was heavy up...
1 Samuel 5:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The men that died not; either of some other plague or ulcer, as may be thought from 1 Samuel 5:6 , or of the emerods, which infested and tormented even those whom it did not kill. The cry of th...
1 Samuel 5:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Ark of God Brings Misery and Plague On the Philistines Who Disrespect It ( 1 Samuel 5:6-12 ). What happened in the house of Dagon was not the only thing that was to trouble the Philistines. So...
1 Samuel 5:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 5:6 . “He destroyed them.” From 1 Samuel 6:4-5 ; 1 Samuel 6:11 ; 1 Samuel 6:18 , where, besides the votive offering referring to the bodily disease, a...
1 Samuel 5:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Samuel 5:1 . Ashdod, afterwards called Azotus. Acts 8:40 . 1 Samuel 5:2 . The ark and set it by Dagon. See Judges 10:6 ; Judges 16:23 . Some make Dagon to be the same as Nereid, Triton, a...
1 Samuel 5:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

The cry of the city. The cry of the city There is a hum of the city in its ceaseless activity, a shout in its occasional excitement, a song in its periodic mirth, but a cry in its constant want...
1 Samuel 5:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THE ARK OF GOD IN PHILISTIA ( 1 Samuel 5:1-9 ). 1 Samuel 5:1 The Philistines took the ark of God . The silence of Scripture is often as remarkable as what it te...
1 Samuel 5:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Ark in Gath and Ekron
1 Samuel 5:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 19:17 ; 1 Samuel 9:16 ; Amos 5:19 ; Exodus 12:30 ; Isaiah 15:3-5 ; Jeremiah 14:2 ; Jeremiah 25:34 ; Jeremiah 48:3
1 Samuel 5:12 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Ark in the Land of the Philistines 1 Samuel 5:1-12 ; 1 Samuel 6:1-11 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There are several things we think should be emphasized. 1. Ebenezer means "Hitherto hath the Lord...

1 Samuel 5:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 5:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 Samuel 5:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

1 Samuel 5:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

1 Samuel 5:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 5:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

1 Samuel 5:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

1 Samuel 5:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 Samuel 5:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 Samuel 5:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 Samuel 5:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 Samuel 5:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Samuel 5:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 5:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 Samuel 5:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 Samuel 5:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 5:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 Samuel 5:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Samuel 5:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

1 Samuel 5:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 Samuel 5:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

1 Samuel 5:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 5:12 - Wells of Living Water Commentary