1 Samuel 5:6

New Living Translation

Then the Lord’s heavy hand struck the people of Ashdod and the nearby villages with a plague of tumors.

Cross References

Genesis 41:31

This famine will be so severe that even the memory of the good years will be erased.

Job 31:3

Isn’t it calamity for the wicked and misfortune for those who do evil?

Psalm 145:20

The Lord protects all those who love him, but he destroys the wicked.

Psalm 147:6

The Lord supports the humble, but he brings the wicked down into the dust.

Psalm 32:4

Day and night your hand of discipline was heavy on me. My strength evaporated like water in the summer heat. Interlude

Psalm 78:66

He routed his enemies and sent them to eternal shame.

Exodus 9:3

the hand of the Lord will strike all your livestock—your horses, donkeys, camels, cattle, sheep, and goats—with a deadly plague.

Acts 13:11

Watch now, for the Lord has laid his hand of punishment upon you, and you will be struck blind. You will not see the sunlight for some time.” Instantly mist and darkness came over the man’s eyes, and he began groping around begging for someone to take his hand and lead him.

Deuteronomy 28:27

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

1 Samuel 5:11

The people summoned the Philistine rulers again and begged them, “Please send the Ark of the God of Israel back to its own country, or it will kill us all.” For the deadly plague from God had already begun, and great fear was sweeping across the town.

1 Samuel 5:7

When the people realized what was happening, they cried out, “We can’t keep the Ark of the God of Israel here any longer! He is against us! We will all be destroyed along with Dagon, our god.”

1 Samuel 5:9

But when the Ark arrived at Gath, the Lord’s heavy hand fell on its men, young and old; he struck them with a plague of tumors, and there was a great panic.