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Diseases

 

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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