curse and an oath] That is, accursed, and detestable for the oath. thigh to rot] By the thigh may be understood a like meaning to those words in the other sexe, Genesis 46:26. and so the justice of God appeares, in matching the punishment to the sinne, as well for the part, as the person offending; as Judges 1:7. belly to swell] Not as women with childe, by a graduall increase; for it was a sudden swelling, with such a violent extension of it, that it was neere to bursting: and this was a usuall miracle among the Jewes, and an undoubted assurance that their Religion was of God.