Uploaded March 2022 | Updated September 2026, 18 minutes ago
Does the Bible really talk about hemorrhoids? You bet your sore tush it does.
The first mention of hemorrhoids (emerods) in the Bible is found in Deuteronmy 28:27 which says The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.
The word emerods in Hebrew is t’chor טחר pronounced
What’s Interesting is how God put hemorrhoids and “the itch” in the same sentence
1 Samuel chapter 2 tells us Eli had two priest sons, Hophni and Phinehas, who are greedy, sexual predators that use their power in horrible ways, taking advantage of the Israelite people. In this same chapter God also tells Eli that both of his sons would be killed on the same day.
Moving on to 1 Samuel chapter 4 we see that the Israelites were battling the Philistines. The Israelites were defeated, so Hophni and Phinehas had the bright idea to bring the Ark of the Covenant to battle, which did in fact scare the Philistines. However, they fought anyway, defeated the Israelites, stole the Ark, and killed Hophni and Phinehas. When Eli found out, he fell over and died. When Phinehas’ wife found out, she gave birth to a son and named him Ichabod meaning “the glory has left”
1Sa 5:1 And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer unto Ashdod.
1Sa 5:2 When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.
1Sa 5:3 And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the LORD. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.
1Sa 5:4 And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to him.
Dagon ended up as nothing more than a broken God
God was not happy that worshippers of the pagan god Dagon possessed the Ark, so he put the heat on them with a flaring case of hemorrhoids as seen in 1 Samuel 5:6
However, the Bible does not casually mention this affliction in one verse and leave it alone. No it goes out of its way to point out that the Philistines had a big problem in their pants
This was no doubt probably the worst case of hemorrhoids in all of mankind
Does the Bible really talk about hemorrhoids? You bet your sore tush it does.
The first mention of hemorrhoids (emerods) in the Bible is found in Deuteronmy 28:27 which says The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.
The word emerods in Hebrew is t’chor טחר pronounced
What’s Interesting is how God put hemorrhoids and “the itch” in the same sentence
1 Samuel chapter 2 tells us Eli had two priest sons, Hophni and Phinehas, who are greedy, sexual predators that use their power in horrible ways, taking advantage of the Israelite people. In this same chapter God also tells Eli that both of his sons would be killed on the same day.
Moving on to 1 Samuel chapter 4 we see that the Israelites were battling the Philistines. The Israelites were defeated, so Hophni and Phinehas had the bright idea to bring the Ark of the Covenant to battle, which did in fact scare the Philistines. However, they fought anyway, defeated the Israelites, stole the Ark, and killed Hophni and Phinehas. When Eli found out, he fell over and died. When Phinehas’ wife found out, she gave birth to a son and named him Ichabod meaning “the glory has left”
1Sa 5:1 And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer unto Ashdod.
1Sa 5:2 When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.
1Sa 5:3 And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the LORD. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.
1Sa 5:4 And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to him.
Dagon ended up as nothing more than a broken God
God was not happy that worshippers of the pagan god Dagon possessed the Ark, so he put the heat on them with a flaring case of hemorrhoids as seen in 1 Samuel 5:6
However, the Bible does not casually mention this affliction in one verse and leave it alone. No it goes out of its way to point out that the Philistines had a big problem in their pants
This was no doubt probably the worst case of hemorrhoids in all of mankind
