hand. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), App-6, for the judgments inflicted by it.
emerods. See note on Deuteronomy 28:27.
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1 Samuel 5:6
6 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.