It was so, that after they had carried it about, the hand of Yahweh was against the city with a very great confusion: and he struck the men of the city, both small and great; and tumors broke out on them.
z וישתרו להם עפלים "et absconditi erant", Montanus; so Vatablus, Junius & Tremellius. a Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 6. c. 1. sect. 1.)