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 the city, or, of that city where the ark was; and the city is put for the people inhabiting it.
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1 Samuel 5:12
12 And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods: and the cry of the city went up to heaven.