1 Samuel 6:4

New Living Translation

“What sort of guilt offering should we send?” they asked. And they were told, “Since the plague has struck both you and your five rulers, make five gold tumors and five gold rats, just like those that have ravaged your land.

Cross References

Exodus 12:35

And the people of Israel did as Moses had instructed; they asked the Egyptians for clothing and articles of silver and gold.

Joshua 13:3

and the larger territory of the Canaanites, extending from the stream of Shihor on the border of Egypt, northward to the boundary of Ekron. It includes the territory of the five Philistine rulers of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron. The land of the Avvites

Judges 14:19

Then the Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon him. He went down to the town of Ashkelon, killed thirty men, took their belongings, and gave their clothing to the men who had solved his riddle. But Samson was furious about what had happened, and he went back home to live with his father and mother.

Judges 3:3

These are the nations: the Philistines (those living under the five Philistine rulers), 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 afflicted with tumors; and the cry from the town rose to heaven.

1 Samuel 5:6

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

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.

1 Samuel 6:5

Make these things to show honor to the God of Israel. Perhaps then he will stop afflicting you, your gods, and your land.

1 Samuel 6:8

Put the Ark of the Lord on the cart, and beside it place a chest containing the gold rats and gold tumors you are sending as a guilt offering. Then let the cows go wherever they want.