1 Samuel 5:9-11

International Standard Version

⁹ After they moved it, the Lord moved against the town, causing^[a] a very great panic. He struck the men of the town, from young to old with tumors of the groin. ¹⁰ Then they sent the Ark of God to Ekron. When the Ark of God arrived in Ekron, the people of Ekron cried out, “They have brought the Ark of the God of Israel to us to kill us and our people!”

¹¹ They sent messengers^[b] and gathered together all the Philistine lords: “Send away the Ark of the God of Israel, and let it return to where it belongs so that it does not kill us and our people.” Meanwhile, a deadly panic had spread all over the town, and God kept on pressuring^[c] them there.