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10 So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. But when the ark of God came to Ekron, the Ekronites cried out, saying, “They have brought around the ark of the God of Israel to kill us and our[a] people!” 11 So they sent and gathered all the rulers of the Philistines, and they said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel and let it return to its place, so that it will not kill us and our people.” For a deadly confusion[b] was throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there. 12 The men who did not die were struck with the tumors,[c] so that the cry of the city for help went up to heaven.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 5:10 Hebrew “me and my”
  2. 1 Samuel 5:11 Literally “a confusion of death”; indicates a genitive of attribute
  3. 1 Samuel 5:12 The Masoretic Hebrew text (Kethib) reads “boils”; the reading tradition (Qere) has “tumors”