1 Samuel 5:6 - The Scriptures 1998

⁶ But the hand of יהוה  was heavy on the Ashdoḏ

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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.

1 Samuel 5:6 Cross References

Genesis 41:31

and the plenty shall not be remembered in the land, because of the scarcity of food following, for it is very severe.

Job 31:3

Is it not calamity to the perverse, and strangeness to the workers of wickedness?

Psalm 145:20

יהוה  preserves all those loving Him, But all the wrong ones He destroys.

Psalm 147:6

יהוה  lifts up the meek ones, He throws the wrong ones down to the ground.

Psalm 32:4

For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; My sap was turned into the droughts of summer. Selah.

Psalm 78:66

And He smote His adversaries backward, He put them to an everlasting reproach.

Exodus 9:3

see, the hand of יהוה  is on your livestock in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the cattle, and on the sheep – a very grievous pestilence.

Acts 13:11

“And now, see, the hand of יהוה  is upon you, and you shall be blind, not seeing the sun for a time.” And instantly a dark mist fell on him, and he went around seeking someone to lead him by the hand.

Deuteronomy 28:27

“יהוה  shall smite you with the boils of Mitsrayim, with tumours, with the scab, and with the itch, from which you are unable to be healed.

1 Samuel 5:11

And they sent and gathered together all the princes of the Philistines, and said, “Send away the ark of the Elohim of Yisra’ĕ

1 Samuel 5:7

And when the men of Ashdoḏ

1 Samuel 5:9

And it came to be, after they removed it, that the hand of יהוה  was against the city with a very great destruction. And He smote the men of the city, from the least to the greatest, and tumours broke out on them.