1 Samuel 6:4

Free Bible Version

“What kind of guilt offering should we send back to him?” asked the Philistines. “Five gold objects in the shape of the swellings, and five gold rats representing the number of rulers of the Philistines,” they replied. “The same plague attacked both you and your rulers.

Cross References

Exodus 12:35

In addition, the Israelites did what Moses had told them and asked the Egyptians for objects of silver and gold, and for clothing.

Joshua 13:3

from the Shihur River on the border with Egypt north to the border of Ekron—all of which is counted as Canaanite but comes under the five Philistine lords of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron. In addition there's the land of the Avvites

Judges 14:19

The Spirit of the Lord swept over him and he went to Ashkelon, killed thirty of their men, took their clothing, and gave it to those who had explained the riddle. Furiously angry, Samson went back to his father's house.

Judges 3:3

They are: the five rulers of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites living in the mountains of Lebanon from Mount Baal-hermon to Lebo-hamath.

1 Samuel 5:12

Those who didn't die were plagued with swellings, and the cry for help from the town reached up to heaven.

1 Samuel 5:6

The Lord punished the people of Ashdod and its surrounding area, devastating them and plaguing them with swellings.

1 Samuel 5:9

But once they'd moved the Ark to Gath, the Lord also took action against that town, throwing it into great confusion and attacking the people of the town, young and old, with a plague of swellings.

1 Samuel 6:5

Make models to represent your swellings and the rats destroying the country, and honor the God of Israel. Perhaps he will stop punishing you, your gods, and your land.

1 Samuel 6:8

Pick up the Ark of the Lord, put it on the cart, and place the gold objects you are sending him as a guilt offering in a chest beside it. Then send the Ark away. Let it go whichever way it wants,