Yahweh will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with the tumors, with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can not be healed.
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Yahweh will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with the tumors, with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can not be healed.
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The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.
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The LORD will smite thee with the boil of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 28:27 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 Samuel 5:6 But Yahweh’s hand was heavy on the people of Ashdod, and he destroyed them and struck them with tumors, even Ashdod and its borders.
- Exodus 9:9 It shall become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boils and blisters breaking out on man and on animal, throughout all the land of Egypt.”
- Exodus 15:26 He said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.”
- Leviticus 21:20 or hunchbacked, or a dwarf, or one who has a defect in his eye, or an itching disease, or scabs, or who has damaged testicles.
- Deuteronomy 28:35 Yahweh will strike you in the knees and in the legs with a sore boil, of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
- Exodus 9:11 The magicians couldn’t stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boils were on the magicians and on all the Egyptians.
- Deuteronomy 28:60-61 He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they will cling to you. Also every sickness and every plague which is not written in the book of this law, Yahweh will bring them on you until you are destroyed.
- 1 Samuel 5:9 It was so, that after they had carried it there, Yahweh’s hand was against the city with a very great confusion; and he struck the men of the city, both small and great, so that tumors broke out on them.
- 1 Samuel 5:12 The men who didn’t die were struck with the tumors; and the cry of the city went up to heaven.
- Psalms 78:66 He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach.
- Isaiah 3:17 therefore the Lord brings sores on the crown of the head of the women of Zion, and Yahweh will make their scalps bald.”
- Leviticus 13:2-8 “When a man shall have a swelling in his body’s skin, or a scab, or a bright spot, and it becomes in the skin of his body the plague of leprosy, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons, the priests. The priest shall examine the plague in the skin of the body. If the hair in the plague has turned white, and the appearance of the plague is deeper than the body’s skin, it is the plague of leprosy; so the priest shall examine him and pronounce him unclean. If the bright spot is white in the skin of his body, and its appearance isn’t deeper than the skin, and its hair hasn’t turned white, then the priest shall isolate the infected person for seven days. The priest shall examine him on the seventh day. Behold, if in his eyes the plague is arrested and the plague hasn’t spread in the skin, then the priest shall isolate him for seven more days. The priest shall examine him again on the seventh day. Behold, if the plague has faded and the plague hasn’t spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. It is a scab. He shall wash his clothes, and be clean. But if the scab spreads on the skin after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall show himself to the priest again. The priest shall examine him; and behold, if the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is leprosy.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Deu 28:27 The LORD will smite thee with the…
Deu 28:27 The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.
Ver. 27. With the botch of Egypt,] i.e., With the leprosy called Elephantiasis, when the skin grows hard as the elephant’s skin. This, saith one, was bred only about Nile, the river of Egypt.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Thou shall betroth a wife, and another man shall…
Thou shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her,.... Espouse a woman in order to make her his wife, and before he can take her home, and consummate the marriage, through some calamity or another coming upon them, they should be set at a distance from each other, and she should fall into the hands of another man, who either should ravish her, or gain her consent to lie with her, or become his wife; which, when the marriage was so near being consummated, must be a grievous disappointment, and a great vexation:
thou shall build an house, and thou shall not dwell therein; being, before it is quite finished, or however before he is got into it, carried captive, or obliged to flee to a distant place:
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thou shall plant a vineyard, and shall not gather the grapes thereof; or make it common, on the fourth year to eat the fruits of it, as Jarchi; which might not be done until sanctified and redeemed according to the law in Lev 19:23; See Gill on Deu 20:6.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The botch of Egypt - Such boils and blains…
The botch of Egypt - Such boils and blains as the Egyptians were plagued with, spreading from head to foot: The emerodes - Or piles.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 27. The Lord will smite thee with the…
Verse 27. The Lord will smite thee with the botch] שחין shechin, a violent inflammatory swelling. In Job 2:7, one of the Hexapla versions renders it ελεφας, the elephantiasis, a disease the most horrid that can possibly afflict human nature. In this disorder, the whole body is covered with a most loathsome scurf; the joints are all preternaturally enlarged, and the skin swells up and grows into folds like that of an elephant, whence the disease has its name. The skin, through its rigidity, breaks across at all the joints, and a most abominable ichor flows from all the chinks, c. See an account of it in Aretaeus, whose language is sufficient to chill the blood of a maniac, could he attend to the description given by this great master, of this most loathsome and abominable of all the natural productions of death and sin. This was called the botch of Egypt, as being peculiar to that country, and particularly in the vicinity of the Nile. Hence those words of Lucretius: -
Est Elephas morbus, qui circum flumina Nili
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Nascitur, AEgypto in media nec praeterea usquam.
Lib. vi., ver. 1112.
Emerods] עפלים ophalim, from עפל aphal, to be elevated, raised up; swellings, protuberances; probably the bleeding piles.
Scab] גרב garab does not occur as a verb in the Hebrew Bible, but [Arabic] gharb, in Arabic, signifies a distemper in the corner of the eye, (Castel.,) and may amount to the Egyptian ophthalmia, which is so epidemic and distressing in that country: some suppose the scurvy to be intended.
Itch] חרס cheres, a burning itch, probably something of the erysipelatous kind, or what is commonly called St. Anthony's fire.
Whereof thou canst not be healed.] For as they were inflicted by GOD'S justice, they could not of course be cured by human art.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Deu 28:27-29. The botch of Egypt — Such boils…
Deu 28:27-29. The botch of Egypt — Such boils or blains as the Egyptians were plagued with, spreading from head to foot. The emerods — Those painful swellings of the hemorrhoidal vessels, called piles. Blindness — Of mind, so that they should not know what to do. Astonishment — They should be filled with wonder and horror because of the strangeness and soreness of their calamities. Grope at noon-day — In the most clear and evident matters thou shalt grossly mistake. Thy ways — Thy counsels and enterprises shall be frustrated and turn to thy destruction. Compare Jer 25:16; Jer 25:18; Zep 1:17; Lam 4:14; Jer 4:9; Eze 4:17.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Egypt. See chap. vi. 15., xxviii. 60., Exodus ix.…
Egypt. See chap. vi. 15., xxviii. 60., Exodus ix. 9, and xv. 25., or with such diseases as those with which he afflicted Egypt. (Calmet) --- Out. Hebrew, "with the emerods, scab, and itch," (Haydock) 1 Kings v. 6, 12.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain the botch of Egypt--a troublesome eruption, marked by red…
the botch of Egypt--a troublesome eruption, marked by red pimples, to which, at the rising of the Nile, the Egyptians are subject.
emerods--fistulæ or piles.
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scab--scurvy.
itch--the disease commonly known by that name; but it is far more malignant in the East than is ever witnessed in our part of the world.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 27. The botch of Egypt — Probably the disease…
27. The botch of Egypt — Probably the disease called elephantiasis. Comp. Exo_9:9, where the Hebrew word is translated boil. This section (27-34) announces some further disasters that will follow upon disobedience. Physical and mental calamities will come — desolation of the home and destruction of property.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 27. the boil of Egypt] Cp. P, Exo_9:9 with…
27. the boil of Egypt] Cp. P, Exo_9:9 with Driver’s note. One of the skin-diseases common in Egypt. Boil, Heb. sheḥîn; Eg. sḥn, ‘an abscess.’ Some think of small-pox, others of elephantiasis. But it may be the bubonic plague; see next note.
emerods] LXX ἕλκος Αἰγ. εἰς τὴν ἕδραν. Rather, as R.V. marg., tumours; Heb. ‘ophalim, swellings. Probably the buboes of the bubonic plague (so Macalister). On this see HGHL, 157 ff.
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scurvy] Heb. garab (Ar. garab = mange), Lev_21:20; Lev_22:22; LXX ψώρα ἀγρία, Vulg. scabies. ‘Favus’ (Macalister).
itch] Heb. ḥeres, Lev_21:20, LXX κνήφη, Vulg. prurigo.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (27) The botch of Egypt.—The “boil,” with which the…
(27) The botch of Egypt.—The “boil,” with which the Egyptians were plagued (Exo_9:9, &c.) is the same word. (See also 2Ki_20:7; Job_2:7.) Rashi says of this boil, “It was very bad, being moist on the inside, and dry outside.” A learned Dalmatian Jew, with whom I have read this passage, tells me that he has seen many cases of this kind among the Hungarian and Polish Jews, and that it prevails among them, being traceable partly to their uncleanliness.
Emerods—i.e., hœmorrhoids (as in 1Sa_5:6).
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The scab.—In Lev_21:20; Lev_22:22 “scurvy.” It would make both a priest and a victim unclean, and unfit for the service of Jehovah.
The itch.—Here only. “A dry ulcer like a sherd” (Rashi).
Whereof thou canst not be healed.—Not that these things are in themselves incurable, but that they should have them incurably.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 27-34. Second group. The Lord should afflict them…
Vers. 27-34. Second group. The Lord should afflict them with various loathsome diseases, vex them with humiliating and mortifying calamities, and give them over to be plundered and oppressed by their enemies.
Botch of Egypt; the form of leprosy peculiar to Egypt, (Exo_9:9, etc.) elephantiasis, AEgypti peculiare malum" (Pliny, "Nat. Hist.," 26:1-5). Emerods; tumors, probably piles. (cf. 1Sa 5) Scab; probably some kind of malignant scurvy. Itch of this there are various kinds common in Egypt and Syria.
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Moses speaks to the Israelites as if they were one man, so the words "you" and "your" here are singular. (See: Forms of You)
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the boils of Egypt
"the same skin disease with which I cursed the Egyptians"
boils ... ulcers, scurvy, and itch
These are different types of skin diseases.
from which you cannot be healed
This can be stated in active form. AT: "from which no one will be able to heal you" (See: Active or Passive)
You will grope about at noonday like the blind grope in the darkness
"You will be like blind people who grope in darkness even at noonday." The Israelites will have a difficult life even when everyone else is enjoying life. (See: Simile)
you will be always oppressed and robbed
"stronger people will always oppress and rob you"
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 28:27 the boils of Egypt: See Exod 9:8-12. •…
28:27 the boils of Egypt: See Exod 9:8-12. • tumors: Cp. 1 Sam 5:6, 9, 12. • scurvy: Perhaps dermatitis. • The itch is also symptomatic of dermatitis.
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