Then they said, “What should the trespass offering be which we shall return to him?” They said, “Five golden tumors and five golden mice, for the number of the lords of the Philistines; for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.

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    Then they said, “What should the trespass offering be which we shall return to him?” They said, “Five golden tumors and five golden mice, for the number of the lords of the Philistines; for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.

  • KJV King James Version

    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.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    Then said they: 'What shall be the guilt-offering which we shall return to Him?' And they said: '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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Cross-references (8)

Passages linked to 1 Samuel 6:4 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Joshua 13:3 from the Shihor, which is before Egypt, even to the border of Ekron northward, which is counted as Canaanite; the five lords of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avvim,
  • Judges 3:3 the five lords of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entrance of Hamath.
  • 1 Samuel 6:17-18 These are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering to Yahweh: for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one; and the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fortified cities and of country villages, even to the great stone on which they set down Yahweh’s ark. That stone remains to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh.
  • 1 Samuel 5:6 But Yahweh’s hand was heavy on the people of Ashdod, and he destroyed them and struck them with tumors, even Ashdod and its borders.
  • 1 Samuel 5:9 It was so, that after they had carried it there, Yahweh’s hand was against the city with a very great confusion; and he struck the men of the city, both small and great, so that tumors broke out on them.
  • Exodus 12:35 The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing.
  • 1 Samuel 5:12 The men who didn’t die were struck with the tumors; and the cry of the city went up to heaven.
  • 1 Samuel 6:5 Therefore you shall make images of your tumors and images of your mice that mar the land; and you shall give glory to the God of Israel. Perhaps he will release his hand from you, from your gods, and from your land.

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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Sa 6:4 Then said they, What [shall be] the…

1Sa 6:4 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.

Ver. 4. Five golden emerods, and five golden mice.] All these things were not only superstitious, but ridiculous: suggested, as some conceive, by Satan to the diviners, in contempt of God; but they were turned by an overruling providence to his great glory. He sent the Philistines mice and emerods of flesh and blood; they return him both these in gold: to imply, saith one, {a} both that these judgments came out from God, and that they did gladly give him the glory of that whereof he gave them pain and sorrow: and that they would willingly buy off their pain with the best of their substance.

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{a} Dr Hall.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain What shall be the trespass-offering? they desire particular information,…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Then said they, what shall be the trespass offering…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Emerods - Figures representing the disease. These they offered…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 4. Five golden emerods, and five golden mice]…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain 1Sa 6:4. Five golden emerods — Figures in gold…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain It was a prevalent custom in pagan antiquity to…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Five golden emerods--Votive or thank offerings were commonly made…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 4. Five golden emerods, and five golden mice —…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 4. emerods] Or, boils. See note on ch. 1Sa_5:6.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (4) Five golden emerods, and five golden mice.—It was…
The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain What shall be the trespass offering?
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 6:4 rats: See study note on 5:6.

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