1 Samuel 6:16-18

The Voice

¹⁶ When the five rulers of the Philistines saw how their offering had been received that day, they returned to Ekron.

¹⁷ The five gold images of swollen tumors presented to the Eternal One by the Philistines as a guilt offering represented Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron—one for each. ¹⁸ Likewise the golden mice represented all the cities of the Philistines governed by their rulers, both the walled cities and the villages surrounding them. The large stone in the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh where they set the chest of the Eternal remains there as a witness to these events.