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1 Samuel 6:16

Ekron

14 The cart came to the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh and stopped there near a large rock. The people chopped up the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the LORD.

15 And the Levites took down the ark of the LORD and the chest containing the gold objects, and they placed them on the large rock. That day the men of Beth-shemesh offered burnt offerings and made sacrifices to the LORD.

And when the five rulers of the Philistines saw this, they returned to Ekron that same day.

17 As a guilt offering to the LORD, the Philistines had sent back one gold tumor for each city: Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron.

18 The number of gold rats also corresponded to the number of Philistine cities belonging to the five rulers—the fortified cities and their outlying villages. And the large rock on which they placed the ark of the LORD stands to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh.

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BSB
And when the five rulers of the Philistines saw this, they returned to Ekron that same day.
KJV
And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.
WEB
When the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.
ASV
And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.
DARBY
And the five lords of the Philistines saw [it], and returned to Ekron the same day.
BLB
And the five lords of the Philistines had seen [it], and they returned to Ekron that day.
ÅB
Filistrenes fem høvdinger så på dette og vendte samme dag tilbake til Ekron.
OTB
Da de fem herskerne av filisterne så dette, vendte de tilbake til Ekron samme dag.
B1930
Filistrenes fem høvdinger så på dette og vendte samme dag tilbake til Ekron.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Judges 3:3

    the five rulers of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived in the mountains of Lebanon from Mount Baal-hermon to Lebo-hamath.

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  • Joshua 13:3

    from the Shihor east of Egypt to the territory of Ekron on the north (considered to be Canaanite territory)—that of the five Philistine rulers of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron, as well as that of the Avvites;

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  • 1 Samuel 6:4

    “What guilt offering should we send back to Him?” asked the Philistines. “Five gold tumors and five gold rats,” they said, “according to the number of rulers of the Philistines, since the same plague has struck both you and your rulers.

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  • Judges 16:5

    The lords of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice him and find out the source of his great strength and how we can overpower him to tie him up and subdue him. Then each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.”

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  • Judges 16:23–30

    Now the lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. They rejoiced and said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hands.”

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  • 1 Samuel 6:12

    And the cows headed straight up the road toward Beth-shemesh, staying on that one highway and lowing as they went, never straying to the right or to the left. The rulers of the Philistines followed behind them to the border of Beth-shemesh.

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  • 1 Samuel 5:10

    So they sent the ark of God to Ekron, but as it arrived, the Ekronites cried out, “They have brought us the ark of the God of Israel in order to kill us and our people!”

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