Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods , and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
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Gill's Exposition
Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods,.... Which some take to be images of the five cities; others of a man at large with the disease in his back parts; others of that part of the body of a…
Adam Clarke
He will lighten his hand from off you - The whole land was afflicted; the ground was marred by the mice; the common people and the lords afflicted by the haemorrhoids, and their gods broken in pieces.
The first words of the chapter tell us how long the captivity of the ark continued - it was in the country of the Philistines seven months. In the field of the Philistines (so it is in the original),…
Cambridge Bible
images of your mice that mar the land The Heb. text now first definitely speaks of the plague of mice, which was alluded to in ch. 1Sa 5:6. The Sept. as we have seen mentions it in 1Sa 5:6 and 1Sa…
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