And when they had carried it about, the hand of the Lord was against the city with a very great destruction, and he smote the men of the city both small and great, and they had emerods in their secret parts.

10 ¶ Therefore they sent the Ark of God to Ekron: and as soon as the Ark of God came to Ekron, the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought the Ark of the God of Israel to us to slay us and our people.

11 Therefore they sent, and gathered together all the princes of the Philistines, and said, Send [a]away the Ark of the God of Israel, and let it return to his own place, that it slay us not and our people: for there was a destruction and death throughout all the city, and the hand of God was very sore there.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 5:11 The wicked when they feel the hand of God, grudge and reject him, where the godly humble themselves, and cry for mercy.

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