1 Samuel 5:6

Plain English Version

Then God made trouble for the people of Ashdod and the country around that town. He made everybody really sick, with lots of boils.

Cross References

Genesis 41:31

Those dry years will be so bad, it will be just like those 7 good years never happened.

Acts 13:11

God will punish you now. He will make you blind, and you will not see the sunlight for a while.” Suddenly Elimas felt himself going blind, and he walked around asking somebody to hold his hand and take him to the place he wanted to go to.

1 Samuel 5:11

So they sent messengers to the bosses from other places to come and meet together at Ekron. This time they said, “Send it away. Send it back to its own country. It might finish us up and everybody else in Philistia.” Lots of people in that place died from the same sickness. That’s how God made them frightened. He made big trouble for all the Philistia mob.

1 Samuel 5:7

After they saw that bad sickness, they said to each other, “We’re in big trouble with the God of the Israel mob. And now he hits Dagon as well. We’ve got to throw away that special box.”

1 Samuel 5:9

But after they took it there, God made trouble for the Gath mob, in the same way. Everybody got really sick, with lots of boils. All the kids and the adults got sick. That made them really frightened.