1 Samuel 6:4

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

“What should we send?” the Philistines asked. The priests and fortune-tellers answered: There are five Philistine rulers, and they all have the same disease that you have.

Cross References

Exodus 12:35

The Israelites had already done what Moses had told them to do. They had gone to their Egyptian neighbours and asked for gold and silver and for clothes.

Judges 14:19

Then the LORD's Spirit took control of Samson. He went to Ashkelon, where he killed thirty men and took their clothing. Samson then gave it to the thirty young men at Timnah and stormed back home to his own family.

Judges 3:3

the Philistines and their five rulers, as well as the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived in the Lebanon Mountains from Mount Baal-Hermon to Hamath Pass.

1 Samuel 5:12

and those who had survived were suffering from the sores. They all cried to their gods for help.

1 Samuel 5:6

The LORD caused a lot of trouble for the people of Ashdod and their neighbours. He made sores break out all over their bodies, and everyone was in a panic.

1 Samuel 5:9

the LORD made sores break out on everyone in town. The people of Gath were frightened,

1 Samuel 6:5

So make five gold models of the sores and five gold models of the rats that are wiping out your crops. If you honour the God of Israel with this gift, perhaps he will stop causing trouble for you and your gods and your crops.

1 Samuel 6:8

Then put the chest on the cart. Put the gold rats and sores into a bag and put it on the cart next to the chest. Then send it on its way.