Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
1 Samuel 5:12
So the protest of the Ekronites was not attended to. The Philistines were unwilling to part with their trophy.
So the protest of the Ekronites was not attended to. The Philistines were unwilling to part with their trophy.
Verse 1 Samuel 5:12. _THE MEN THAT DIED NOT_] Some it seems were smitten with _instant death_; others with the _haemorrhoids_, and there was a universal consternation; and _the cry of the city went up...
6. THE ARK IN THE HANDS OF THE PHILISTINES AND ITS RETURN CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The ark in the house of Dagon (1 Samuel 5:1)_ 2. The Philistines smitten by Jehovah (1 Samuel 5:6) The ark was brought to As...
1 SAMUEL 5. THE ARK IN THE PHILISTINE CITIES. 1 Samuel 5:1. Ashdod. 1 Samuel 5:8. Gath. 1 Samuel 5:10. Ekron: see Joshua 11:22;...
_the cry of the city went up to heaven_ Cp. Exodus 2:13. The word used always denotes a _supplication_, a _cry for help_. Each city was visited with a heavier judgment than the preceding one. "The lo...
AND THE MEN THAT DIED NOT, &C.— The doctrine of intercommunity led the heathens into the custom of changing one tutelary deity for another; but the God of the Israelites had an absolute abhorrence of...
_The Ark in Ekron._ 1 Samuel 5:10-12 10 Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about...
_AND THE MEN THAT DIED NOT WERE SMITTEN WITH THE EMERODS: AND THE CRY OF THE CITY WENT UP TO HEAVEN._ The cry of the city went up to heaven. The disease is attended with acute pain, and it is far fro...
ISRAEL’S FIRST KING 1 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 5 THE *ARK OF GOD CAUSES TROUBLE FOR THE *PHILISTINES V1 When the *Philistines stole the *ark of God they took it from Ebenezer to the town o...
וְ הָֽ אֲנָשִׁים֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר לֹא ־מֵ֔תוּ הֻכּ֖וּ
CHAPTER VII. _ THE ARK AMONG THE PHILISTINES._ 1 Samuel 5:1; 1 Samuel 6:1 ALTHOUGH the history in Samuel is silent as to the doings of the Philistines immediately after their great victory over Isra...
THE CAPTURED ARK BRINGS TROUBLE 1 Samuel 5:1 Dagon's fall before the Ark of God has a sublime significance. In the evening, as the priests left the temple, the hideous image stood erect on its pedest...
This is a story of supreme and arresting interest, showing as it does how, when the people of God fail to bear testimony for Him among the nations, He becomes His own witness. The Ark was not a charm...
_Die, at the sight of the ark, as the Bethsamites did afterwards. (Menochius)_...
(8) They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be ca...
REFLECTIONS How very precious it is to observe, the attention which God hath over his own cause. Though Israel is sunk so low as to be supine and inattentive to the attempt of recovering the ark, yet...
The first Book of Samuel (or of Kings as with some) brings before us that great change for which the Book of Ruth was a preparation, and in order to which the Spirit of God closed it with the generati...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4, 5, AND 6. In chapter 4 the enemies of God and of His people display their strength; the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel. God, in overrul...
AND THE MEN THAT DIED NOT WERE SMITTEN WITH THE EMERODS,.... As the inhabitants of Ashdod and Gath had been; this shows that those that died did not die of that disease, but of some other; very likely...
And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods: and the cry of the city went up to heaven. Ver. 12. _And the men that died not were smitten, &c._] All that were smitten with emerods died not...
_There was a deadly destruction through all the city_ That is, in every city where the ark of God came, some were struck with the pestilence and died, and others lingered under intolerable pains, whic...
1 The Philistines hauing brought the Arke into Ashdod, set it in the house of Dagon. 3 Dagon is smitten downe and cut in pieces, and they of Ashdod smitten with Emerods. 8 So God dealeth with them o...
THE ARK IN GATH AND EKRON...
And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods, being extremely ill with the boil-sickness; AND THE CRY OF THE CITY WENT UP TO HEAVEN, for the Philistines were forced to acknowledge that in t...
Though God had allowed the Philistines to gain the victory, He very soon spoils their pleasure in having captured the ark, taking it to Ashdod. They think the most fit place for it is in the house of...
6-12 The hand of the Lord was heavy upon the Philistines; he not only convinced them of their folly, but severely chastised their insolence. Yet they would not renounce Dagon; and instead of seeking...
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,...
1 Samuel 5:12 men H582 die H4191 (H8804) stricken H5221 (H8717) tumors H2914 (H8675) H6076 cry...
THE ARK OF GOD BRINGS MISERY AND PLAGUE ON THE PHILISTINES WHO DISRESPECT IT (1 SAMUEL 5:6). What happened in the house of Dagon was not the only thing that was to trouble the Philistines. Soon a drea...
CONTENTS: Ark of God a curse to Philistines. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Sacred signs are not things that God is tied to or that man can trust to for blessing. His presence may be a savour of life...
1 Samuel 5:1. _Ashdod,_ afterwards called Azotus. Acts 8:40. 1 Samuel 5:2. _The ark and set it by Dagon._ See Judges 10:6;...
_The cry of the city._ THE CRY OF THE CITY There is a hum of the city in its ceaseless activity, a shout in its occasional excitement, a song in its periodic mirth, but a cry in its constant want, d...
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 5:6. “HE DESTROYED THEM.” From 1 Samuel 6:4; 1 Samuel 6:11; 1 Samuel 6:18, where, besides the vot
EXPOSITION THE ARK OF GOD IN PHILISTIA (1 Samuel 5:1). 1 SAMUEL 5:1 THE PHILISTINES TOOK THE ARK OF GOD. The silence of Scri
Now the Philistines took this ark of the covenant, and they brought it to one of their cities on the coast the city of Ashdod. And they put the ark of the covenant in their temple of their god Dagon,...
1 Kings 19:17; 1 Samuel 9:16; Amos 5:19; Exodus 12:30; Isaiah 15:3;...
THE ARK IN THE LAND OF THE PHILISTINES 1 Samuel 5:1; 1 Samuel 6:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There are several things we think should be emphasized. 1. EBENEZER MEANS "HITHERTO HATH THE LORD HELPED US." Wh...