And it was [so], that, after they had carried it about, the hand of the LORD was against the city with a very great destruction: and he smote the men of the city, both small and great, and they had emerods in their secret parts.
Ver. 9. And they had emerods in their secret parts.] Much worse than the inhabitants of Ashdod, as being more inward, and therefore more painful, and hard to come at, or to be cured. a Such as was that direful disease whereof died Jehoram, Antiochus, Arrius, Arminius, who died of an incessant pain in his belly.
a Secundum genus haemorrhoidis, et multo gravius, ut omnes testantur medici.