And they said, “What is the guilt offering that we shall return to him?” They answered, “Five golden (A)tumors and five golden mice, (B)according to the number of the lords of the Philistines, for the same plague was on all of you and on your lords.

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The Philistines asked, “What guilt offering should we send to him?”

They replied, “Five gold tumors and five gold rats, according to the number(A) of the Philistine rulers, because the same plague(B) has struck both you and your rulers.

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Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines: for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.

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(A)The hand of the Lord was heavy against the people of Ashdod, and he terrified and afflicted them with (B)tumors, both Ashdod and its territory.

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The Lord’s hand(A) was heavy on the people of Ashdod and its vicinity; he brought devastation(B) on them and afflicted them with tumors.[a](C)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 5:6 Hebrew; Septuagint and Vulgate tumors. And rats appeared in their land, and there was death and destruction throughout the city

But the hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof.

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But after they had brought it around, (A)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 (B)tumors broke out on them.

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But after they had moved it, the Lord’s hand was against that city, throwing it into a great panic.(A) He afflicted the people of the city, both young and old, with an outbreak of tumors.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 5:9 Or with tumors in the groin (see Septuagint)

And it was so, that, after 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.

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12 The men who did not die were struck with (A)tumors, and the cry of the city went up to heaven.

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12 Those who did not die(A) were afflicted with tumors, and the outcry of the city went up to heaven.

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12 And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods: and the cry of the city went up to heaven.

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