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He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach.
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A Humiliating Reproach
Several commentators, notably John Gill and Charles Ellicott, connect this verse to the events in 1 Samuel 5. When the Philistines captured the Ark of the Covenant, God struck them with hemorrhoids ('in the hinder parts'). The 'perpetual reproach' refers to the humiliation of this plague and their having to send golden images of the tumors back with the Ark as a guilt offering.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And he smote his enemies in the hinder part - From behind; that is, as they fled. There are two ideas here: one, that they fled at …
19th Century
Anglican
He smote. —Possibly an allusion to 1 Samuel 5:9, or to the repeated defeats of the Philistines under Saul and David.
Baptist
You see that we are getting into clear water now; it was all broken water, storm and hurricane, while we heard of what Israel did; but when we come…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts Not the Israelites, as Kimchi interprets it, but the Philistines, who i…
After the Israelites were settled in Canaan, their children were like their fathers. God gave them his testimonies, but they turned back. Presumptu…
