1 Samuel 5:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ The hand of the Lord was heavy upon the people of Ashdod, and he terrified and struck them with tumors, both in Ashdod and in its territory.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ But the hand of the Lord was heavy upon the people of Ashdod, and He caused [mice to spring up and there was] very deadly destruction and He smote the people with [very painful] tumors or boils, both Ashdod and its territory.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ But the hand of Jehovah was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with tumors, even Ashdod and the borders thereof.

Common English Bible

⁶ The LORD’s hand was heavy on the people of Ashdod: God terrified them and struck them in Ashdod and its surroundings with tumors.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ Now the hand of the Lord weighed heavily upon the Ashdodites, and he destroyed them. And he struck Ashdod and its borders at the inner part of the buttocks. And in the villages and fields, in the midst of that region, mice rose up and burst forth. And this caused a great tumult unto death in the city.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ And the hand of the Lord was heavy upon the Azotians, and he destroyed them, and afflicted Azotus and the coasts thereof with emerods. And in the villages and fields in the midst of that country, there came forth a multitude of mice; and there was the confusion of a great mortality in the city.

1 Samuel 5:6 Cross References

Genesis 41:31

The plenty will no longer be known in the land because of the famine that will follow, for it will be very grievous.

Job 31:3

Does not calamity befall the unrighteous and disaster the workers of iniquity?

Psalm 145:20

The Lord watches over all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy.

Psalm 147:6

The Lord lifts up the downtrodden; he casts the wicked to the ground.

Psalm 32:4

For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah

Psalm 78:66

He put his adversaries to rout; he put them to everlasting disgrace.

Exodus 9:3

the hand of the Lord will strike with a deadly pestilence your livestock in the field: the horses, the donkeys, the camels, the herds, and the flocks.

Acts 13:11

And now listen—the hand of the Lord is against you, and you will be blind for a while, unable to see the sun.” Immediately mist and darkness came over him, and he fumbled about for someone to lead him by the hand.

Deuteronomy 28:27

The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors, scurvy, and itch, of which you cannot be healed.

1 Samuel 5:11

They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it return to its own place, that it may not kill us and our people.” For there was a deathly panic throughout the whole city. The hand of God was very heavy there;

1 Samuel 5:7

And when the inhabitants of Ashdod saw how things were, they said, “The ark of the God of Israel must not remain with us, for his hand is heavy on us and on our god Dagon.”

1 Samuel 5:9

But after they had brought it to Gath, the hand of the Lord was against the city, causing a very great panic; he struck the inhabitants of the city, both young and old, so that tumors broke out on them.