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 12:23 - Children 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 14:19 - Physicians 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 5:15 - Illustrative of sin Isa 1:5

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Were introduced into the world by sin, and have been greatly increased by the prevalence of corrupt, indolent, and luxurious habits. Besides the natural causes of diseases, evil spirits were charged with producing them among the Hebrews, Job 2:7 Mr 9:17 Lu 13:16 2Co 12:7. The pious Jews recognized the hand of God in sending them, Ps 39:9-11 90:3-12; and in many cases special diseases were sent in punishment of particular sins, as Abimelech, Gehazi, Jehoram, Uzziah, Miriam, Herod, the Philistines, etc., and those who partook of the Lord’s supper unworthily, 1Co 11:30. Christ manifested his divine goodness and power by healing every form of disease; and in these cases, as in that of king Asa, 2Ch 16:12, it is shown that all the skill of physicians is in vain without God’s blessing. The prevalent diseases in Bible lands were malignant fevers, cutaneous diseases, palsy, dysentery, and ophthalmia. Almost every form of bodily disease has a counterpart in the maladies of the soul.