“But the hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof.”
But the hand of the LORD was heavy on the people of Ashdod, and he terrorized them; he struck them with tumors, both in Ashdod and in the territory belonging to it—*yad YHWH* (the hand of the LORD) falls heavily on Ashdod. *Vayakhem shikim* (he struck them with tumors)—the *tumors* (*ophalem*, Heb. *tehorim*, probably bubonic plague) are a disease of humiliation, affecting the body's most private regions. The plague is simultaneously judgment on Dagon and a sign of the ark's power.
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