1 Samuel 5:9

“And it was so, that after they had carried it about, etc.] And at last placed it in the city of Gath; the hand of the Lord was against the city with a very great destruction: greater than that at Ashdod, more persons were destroyed; the distemper sent among them was more epidemic and mortal: and he smote the men of the city, both small and great; high and low, persons of every class, rank, and station, young and old, men, women, and children: and they had emerods in their secret parts; and so had the men of Ashdod; and the design of this expression is, not to point at the place where they were, which it is well known they are always in those parts, but the different nature of them; the…”

“Hidden parts - In the inwards of their hinder parts: which is the worst kind of emerods, as all physicians acknowledge, both because its pains are far more sharp than the other; and because the malady is more out of the reach of remedies. 1 Kings (1 Samuel) 5:11”

“5:9 God often used great panic to incapacitate and overwhelm Israel’s enemies (14:15, 20; Deut 7:23; Ezek 22:5; Amos 3:9).”

“the hand: Sa1 5:6, Sa1 7:13, Sa1 12:15; Deu 2:15; Amo 5:19, Amo 9:1-4 with a very: Sa1 5:11 and they had emerods: Sa1 5:6, Sa1 6:4, Sa1 6:5, Sa1 6:11; Psa 78:66 1 Kings (1 Samuel) 5:10”

“But when the ark was brought to Gath, the hand of Jehovah came upon that city also with very great alarm. גּדולה מהוּמה is subordinated to the main sentence either adverbially or in the accusative. Jehovah smote the people of the city, small and great, so that boils broke out upon their hinder parts. 1 Kings (1 Samuel) 5:10”