1-samuel 5:12
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
And the men that died not were smitten with the tumors: and the cry of the city went up to heaven.
American King James Version (AKJV)
And the men that died not were smitten with the tumors: and the cry of the city went up to heaven.
American Standard Version (ASV)
And the men that died not were smitten with the tumors; and the cry of the city went up to heaven.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
And those men who were not overtaken by death were cruelly diseased: and the cry of the town went up to heaven.
Webster's Revision
And the men that died not, were smitten with the emerods: and the cry of the city went up to heaven.
World English Bible
The men who didn't die were struck with the tumors; and the cry of the city went up to heaven.
English Revised Version (ERV)
And the men that died not were smitten with the tumours: and the cry of the city went up to heaven.
Definitions for 1-samuel 5:12
Clarke's 1-samuel 5:12 Bible Commentary
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 to heaven - it was an exceeding great cry.
It does not appear that the Philistines had any correct knowledge of the nature of Jehovah, though they seemed to acknowledge his supremacy. They imagined that every country, district, mountain, and valley, had its peculiar deity; who, in its place, was supreme over all others. They thought therefore to appease Jehovah by sending him back his ark or shrine: and, in order to be redeemed from their plagues, they send golden mice and emerods as telesms, probably made under some particular configurations of the planets. See at the end of 1 Samuel 6:21 (note).
