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Diseases
Often sent as punishment - De 28:21; Joh 5:14
Often brought from other countries - De 7:15
Often through Satan - 1Sa 16:14-16; Job 2:7
Regarded as visitations - Job 2:7-10; Ps 38:2,7
Intemperance a cause of - Ho 7:5
Sins of youth a cause of - Job 20:11
Over-excitement a cause of - Da 8:27
Were many and divers - Mt 4:24
MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE
- Ague
- Le 26:16- Abscess
- 2Ki 20:7- Atrophy
- Job 16:8; 19:20- Blindness
- Job 29:15; Mt 9:27- Boils and blains
- Ex 9:10- Consumption
- Le 26:16; De 28:22- Demoniacal possession
- Mt 15:22; Mr 5:15- Deafness
- Ps 38:13; Mr 7:32- Debility
- Ps 102:23; Eze 7:17- Dropsy
- Lu 14:2- Dumbness
- Pr 31:8; Mt 9:32- Dysentery
- 2Ch 21:12-19; Ac 28:8- Emerods
- De 28:27; 1Sa 5:6,12- Fever
- De 28:22; Mt 8:14- Impediment speech
- Mr 7:32- Itch
- De 28:27- Inflammation
- De 28:22- Issue of blood
- Mt 9:20- Lameness
- 2Sa 4:4; 2Ch 16:12- Leprosy
- Le 13:2; 2Ki 5:1- Loss of appetite
- Job 33:20; Ps 107:18- Lunacy
- Mt 4:24; 17:15- Melancholy
- 1Sa 16:14- Palsy
- Mt 8:6; 9:2- Plague
- Nu 11:33; 2Sa 24:15,21,25- Scab
- De 28:27- Sunstroke
- 2Ki 4:18-20; Isa 49:10- Ulcers
- Isa 1:6; Lu 16:20- Worms
- Ac 12:23Children subject to - 2Sa 12:15; 1Ki 17:17
FREQUENTLY
- Loathsome
- Ps 38:7; 41:8- Painful
- 2Ch 21:15; Job 33:19- Tedious
- De 28:59; Joh 5:5; Lu 13:16- Complicated
- De 28:60,61; Ac 28:8- Incurable
- 2Ch 21:18; Jer 14:19Physicians undertook the cure of - Jer 8:22; Mt 9:12; Lu 4:23
Medicine used for curing - Pr 17:22; Isa 1:6
Art of curing, defective - Job 13:4; Mr 5:26
God often entreated to cure - 2Sa 12:16; 2Ki 20:1-3; Ps 6:2; Jas 5:14
Not looking to God in, condemned - 2Ch 16:12
THOSE AFFLICTED WITH
- Anointed
- Mr 6:13; Jas 5:14- Often laid in the streets to receive advice from passers by
- Mr 6:56; Ac 5:15- Often divinely supported
- Ps 41:3- Often divinely cured
- 2Ki 20:5; Jas 5:15Illustrative of sin - Isa 1:5
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