New Torrey's Topical Textbook: Rev. R. A. Torrey

Diseases

• Often sent as punishment Dt. 28:21; Jn. 5:14
• Often brought from other countries Dt. 7:15
• Often through Satan 1 Sam. 16:14-16; Job 2:7
• Regarded as visitations Job 2:7-10; Ps. 38:2, 7
• Intemperance a cause of Hos. 7:5
• Sins of youth a cause of Job 20:11
• Over-excitement a cause of Dan. 8:27
• Were many and divers Mt. 4:24
• Mentioned in scripture
  • Ague Lev. 26:16
  • Abscess 2 Ki. 20:7
  • Atrophy Job 16:8, 19:20
  • Blindness Job 29:15; Mt. 9:27
  • Boils and blains Ex. 9:10
  • Consumption Lev. 26:16; Dt. 28:22
  • Demoniacal possession Mt. 15:22; Mk. 5:15
  • Deafness Ps. 38:13; Mk. 7:32
  • Debility Ps. 102:23; Ezek. 7:17
  • Dropsy Lk. 14:2
  • Dumbness Pr. 31:8; Mt. 9:32
  • Dysentery 2 Chr. 21:19; Acts 28:8
  • Emerods Dt. 28:27; 1 Sam. 5:6, 12
  • Fever Dt. 28:22; Mt. 8:14
  • Impediment speech Mk. 7:32
  • Itch Dt. 28:27
  • Inflammation Dt. 28:22
  • Issue of blood Mt. 9:20
  • Lameness 2 Sam. 4:4; 2 Chr. 16:12
  • Leprosy Lev. 13:2; 2 Ki. 5:1
  • Loss of appetite Job 33:20; Ps. 107:18
  • Lunacy Mt. 4:24, 17:15
  • Melancholy 1 Sam. 16:14
  • Palsy Mt. 8:6, 9:2
  • Plague Num. 11:33; 2 Sam. 24:15, 21, 25
  • Scab Dt. 28:27
  • Sunstroke 2 Ki. 4:18-20; Isa. 49:10
  • Ulcers Isa. 1:6; Lk. 16:20
  • Worms Acts 12:23
• Children subject to 2 Sam. 12:15; 1 Ki. 17:17
• Frequently
  • Loathsome Ps. 38:7, 41:8
  • Painful 2 Chr. 21:15; Job 33:19
  • Tedious Dt. 28:59; Jn. 5:5; Lk. 13:16
  • Complicated Dt. 28:60, 61; Acts 28:8
  • Incurable 2 Chr. 21:18; Jer. 14:19
• Physicians undertook the cure of Jer. 8:22; Mt. 9:12; Lk. 4:23
• Medicine used for curing Pr. 17:22; Isa. 1:6
• Art of curing, defective Job 13:4; Mk. 5:26
• God often entreated to cure 2 Sam. 12:16; 2 Ki. 20:1-3; Ps. 6:2; Jas. 5:14
• Not looking to God in, condemned 2 Chr. 16:12
• Those afflicted with
  • Anointed Mk. 6:13; Jas. 5:14
  • Often laid in the streets to receive advice from passers by Mk. 6:56; Acts 5:15
  • Often divinely supported Ps. 41:3
  • Often divinely cured 2 Ki. 20:5; Jas. 5:15
• Illustrative of sin Isa. 1:5