1 Samuel 5:6 - The Scriptures 2009

⁶ But the hand of יהוה was heavy on the Ashdoḏites, and He wasted them and struck them with tumours – Ashdoḏ and its borders.

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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

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 struck 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 strike 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’ĕl, and let it return to its own place, so that it does not kill us and our people.” For there had come a deadly destruction throughout all the city – the hand of Elohim was very heavy there.

1 Samuel 5:7

And when the men of Ashdoḏ saw this, they said, “Let not the ark of the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl remain with us, for His hand has been hard on us, and on Daḡon our mighty one.”

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 struck the men of the city, from the least to the greatest, and tumours broke out on them.