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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 12:23

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