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.
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Gill's Exposition
And it was so, that after they had carried it about,.... And at last placed it in the city of Gath:
the hand of the Lord was against the city with a very great destruction: greater than that at…
Adam Clarke
The hand of the Lord was against the city - As it was at Ashdod, so it was at Gath. The Vulgate says, Et computrescebant prominenter extales eorum; which conveys the idea of a bloody flux, dysentery,…
The downfall of Dagon (if the people had made a good use of it, and had been brought by it to repent of their idolatries and to humble themselves before the God of Israel and seek his face) might have…
Cambridge Bible
with a very great destruction Better, with an exceeding great panic, causing utter consternation.
both small and great i.e. both young and old: all the inhabitants.
and they had emerods in their…
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