1 Samuel 5:6

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

The hand of the Lord was heavy upon the people of Ashdod, and he terrified and afflicted them with tumors, both Ashdod and its territory.

Cross References

Genesis 41:31

and the plenty will be unknown in the land by reason of that famine which will follow, for it will be very grievous.

Job 31:3

Does not calamity befall the unrighteous, and disaster the workers of iniquity?

Psalm 145:20

The Lord preserves all who love him; but all the wicked he will destroy.

Psalm 147:6

The Lord lifts up the downtrodden, he casts the wicked to the ground.

Psalm 32:4

For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah

Psalm 78:66

And he put his adversaries to rout; he put them to everlasting shame.

Exodus 9:3

behold, the hand of the Lord will fall with a very severe plague upon your cattle which are in the field, the horses, the asses, the camels, the herds, and the flocks.

Acts 13:11

And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you shall be blind and unable to see the sun for a time.” Immediately mist and darkness fell upon him and he went about seeking people to lead him by the hand.

Deuteronomy 28:27

The Lord will smite you with the boils of Egypt, and with the ulcers and the scurvy and the itch, of which you cannot be healed.

1 Samuel 5:11

They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it return to its own place, that it may not slay us and our people.” For there was a deathly panic throughout the whole city. The hand of God was very heavy there;

1 Samuel 5:7

And when the men of Ashdod saw how things were, they said, “The ark of the God of Israel must not remain with us; for his hand is heavy upon us and upon Dagon our god.”

1 Samuel 5:9

But after they had brought it around, the hand of the Lord was against the city, causing a very great panic, and he afflicted the men of the city, both young and old, so that tumors broke out upon them.