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Haemorrhoids: Or Emerods, bleeding piles known to the ancient Romans as mariscae,
but more probably malignant boils of an infectious and fatal
character. With this loathsome and infectious disease the men of
Ashdod were smitten by the hand of the Lord. This calamity they
attributed to the presence of the ark in their midst, and therefore
they removed it to Gath
(1 Samuel 5:6-8) But the same consequences followed
from its presence in Gath, and therefore they had it removed to
Ekron, 11 miles distant. The Ekronites were afflicted with the
same dreadful malady, but more severely; and a panic seizing the
people, they demanded that the ark should be sent back to the land of
Israel
(1 Samuel 5:9-12; 6:1-9)
