Boil

How Nave’s arranged it

• (A tumor)
• Plague of EgyptiansExodus 9:9Exodus 9:10Deuteronomy 28:27Deuteronomy 28:35
• Of the Philistines (R. V., tumors)1 Samuel 5:61 Samuel 5:91 Samuel 6:5
• Of Hezekiah, healed2 Kings 20:7Isaiah 38:21
• Of JOBJob 2:7Job 2:8
• Levitical ceremonies prescribed forLeviticus 13:18–23

The passages, in Bible order (12)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 12 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Exodus 9:9

   It will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and festering boils will break out on man and beast throughout the land.”

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   “After these plagues came rotten and swollen cysts, along with fever, as the sixth plague. In the ulcers the troubled and purulent evil of this age is signified; in the cysts swollen and inflated pride; in the fevers anger and the madness of rage. Up …

   “And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt,....

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2. Exodus 9:10

   So they took soot from the furnace and stood before Pharaoh. Moses tossed it into the air, and festering boils broke out on man and beast.

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   “And they took ashes of the furnace,....

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3. Leviticus 13:18–23

   When a boil appears on someone’s skin and it heals,

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   “The flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a boil,.... Or hot ulcer, by which, says Maimonides (n) you may understand any stroke by a stone, stick, or iron, or any other thing: and in the Misnah (o), it is asked, what is an ulcer (or boil)? a stroke by wood, stone, pitch, or hot water; all that is from the force of fire is an ulcer: and is healed; by the use of medicine, and the part, in all appearance, as well and as sound as ever. (n) In Misn. Negaim, c. 6. sect.

   “In the skin thereof, was a boil - Scheuchzer supposes this and the following verse to speak of phlegmonic, erysipelatous, gangrenous, and phagedenic ulcers, all of which were subjected to the examination of the priest, to see whether they were infectious, or whether the leprosy might not take its origin from them. A person with any sore or disposition to contagion was more likely to catch the infection by contact with the diseased person, than he was whose skin was whole and sound, and his habit good.

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4. Deuteronomy 28:27

   The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors and scabs and itch from which you cannot be cured.

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   “The Lord will smite thee with the botch of Egypt,.... Which some understand of the leprosy, Of that sort of it called "elephantiasis", frequent among the Egyptians; See Gill on Lev 13:2. Thevenot (i) relates, that when the time of the increase of the Nile expires, the Egyptians are attended with sharp prickings in their skin like needles. So Vansleb says (k),"the waters of the Nile cause an itch in the skin, which troubles such as drink of them when the river increases.

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5. Deuteronomy 28:35

   The LORD will afflict you with painful, incurable boils on your knees and thighs, from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.

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   “The Lord shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch, that cannot be healed,.... Which in those parts as it is very painful, so is not easily cured; and this which is threatened was incurable by the art of man, as others in Deu 28:27; and which should not stop there in the lower parts of the body, but proceed and spread: from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head; and so be filled with them, as Job was with his boils and ulcers.

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6. 1 Samuel 5:6

   Now the hand of the LORD was heavy on the people of Ashdod and its vicinity, ravaging them and afflicting them with tumors.

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   “5. The hand of the Lord is the power of divine might. And because in the Azotians the beginnings of paganism are signified, what does it mean that the hand of the Lord is said to have been made heavy upon the Azotians? But He made His hand heavy upon Azotus when He moved the hearts of the Gentiles to conversion by the power of His might. For when through inward inspiration He made known to them the force of eternal death, He struck the minds of the Gentiles with wondrous terror over the iniquities they had committed.

   “But the hand of the Lord was heavy on them of Ashdod,....

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7. 1 Samuel 5:9

   But after they had moved the ark to Gath, the LORD’s hand was also against that city, throwing it into great confusion and afflicting the men of the city, both young and old, with an outbreak of tumors.

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   “9. For the ark is carried around when the mysteries of the faith are preached openly and without fear. And because in the beginnings of the faith countless people were converted, a very great slaughter is reported to have been made throughout each of the cities. Likewise, because not only the simple but also the wise were converted, the same slaughter is declared to have been made from the least even to the greatest. But through that same striking, the intestines are reported to rot away.

   “And it was so, that after they had carried it about,....

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8. 1 Samuel 6:5

   Make images of your tumors and of the rats that are ravaging the land. Give glory to the God of Israel, and perhaps He will lift His hand from you and your gods and your land.

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   “And you will give glory to the God of Israel, etc. And confess that God alone is true, but every man is a liar (Rom. III; Psalm CXV); perhaps He may turn His face away from your sins and wipe out all your iniquities, and, …

   “5. What does it mean that five likenesses of tumors, and as many likenesses of mice, according to the number of the provinces, are commanded to be made, and thus the debt to the ark is paid? These things indeed, if weighed in the Jewish manner according to the lowliness of the letter, are not only to be despised, but not even worthy of hearing. He indeed receives these things worthily who understands that the more lowly they sound by the letter, the more useful they are through their spiritual meaning.

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9. 2 Kings 20:7

   Then Isaiah said, “Prepare a poultice of figs.” So they brought it and applied it to the boil, and Hezekiah recovered.

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   “And Isaiah said, take a lump of figs,.... Not moist figs, but a cake of dried figs, as the word used signifies, and so the less likely to have any effect in curing the boil: and they took, and laid it on the boil, and he recovered; made a plaster of it, and laid it on the ulcer, and it was healed.

   “The vine, and that not in a few places, refers to the Lord himself, and the fig tree to the Holy Spirit, as the Lord makes glad the hearts of people and heals them. And therefore Hezekiah is commanded first to make a plaster with a lump of figs—that is, the fruit of the Spirit—that he may be healed—that is, according to the apostle—by love; for he says, "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance;" which, on account of their great pleasantness the prophet calls figs.

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10. Job 2:7

    So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.

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    “HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION. So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord. And smote Job with sore boils, from the sole of his foot unto his crown. How 'Satan goes forth from the presence of the Lord,' is shewn by the remarks which have been already made above. Strokes are to be estimated in two ways, viz. to consider either of what kind, or how great.

    “So went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord,....

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11. Job 2:8

    And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.

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    “ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION. And he took him a potsherd to scrape the humour withal. For what is the potsherd in the hand of the Lord, but the flesh which He took of the clay of our nature? For the potsherd receives firmness by fire. And the Flesh of our Lord was rendered stronger by His Passion, in so far as dying by infirmity, He arose from death void of infirmity. And hence too it is rightly delivered by the Prophet, My strength is dried up like a potsherd.

    “And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal,....

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12. Isaiah 38:21

    Now Isaiah had said, “Prepare a lump of pressed figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.”

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    “(Verses 21, 22.) And Isaiah commanded them to take a lump of figs and apply it to the boil, and he would be healed. And Hezekiah said that the sign would be that he would go up to the house of the Lord. This should be read before Hezekiah's prayer, or Scripture, which we have just interpreted: for the poultice was applied to the wound first, and the sign of future healing was requested from him before he thanked the Lord for healing him.

    “For Isaiah had said,.... Before the above writing was made, which ends in the preceding verse; for this and the following are added by Isaiah, or some other person, taken out of 2Ki 20:7. The Septuagint version adds, "to Hezekiah"; but the speech seems rather directed to some of his servants, or those that were about him: let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover; which was done, and he did accordingly recover. Aben Ezra, Jarchi, and.

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