1 Samuel 5:6
Now the hand of the Lord was heavy on the people of Ashdod and its vicinity, ravaging them and afflicting them with tumors.
Note Hebrew; LXX and Vulgate include And rats appeared in their land, and death and destruction were 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.
But the Lord’s hand was heavy on the people of Ashdod, and he destroyed them and struck them with tumors, even Ashdod and its borders.
But the hand of Jehovah was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with tumors, even Ashdod and the borders thereof.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- the hand
- 1 Samuel 5:7, 11; Exodus 9:3; Psalm 32:4; Acts 13:11
- emerods
- 1 Samuel 5:9, 11; 1 Samuel 6:5; Deuteronomy 28:27; Job 31:3; Psalm 78:66
- thereof
- The LXX. and Vulgate add: [Kai meson tés choras autés anephyésan myes kai egeneto synchysis thanatou megalé en té polei; {Et ebullierunt villæ et agri in medio regionis illius, et nati sunt mures; et facta est confusio mortis magnæ in civitate; "And [the cities and fields in Vulg.] the midst of that region produced mice; [Vulg. burst up, and mice were produced;] and there was the confusion of a great death in the city."
- 1 Samuel 6:4, 5