Dictionary entry

Diseases

R. A. Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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