1 Samuel 6:5
Make images of your tumors and of the rats that are ravaging the land. Give glory to the God of Israel, and perhaps He will lift His hand from you and your gods and your land.
Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
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.
Wherefore ye shall make images of your tumors, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- mice
- Bochart has collected many curious accounts relative to the terrible devastations made by these mischievous animals. William, Archbishop of Tyre, records, that in the beginning of the twelfth century, a penitential council was held at Naplouse, where five and twenty canons were framed for the correction of the manners of the inhabitants of the Christian kingdom of Jerusalem, who they apprehended had provoked to bring upon them the calamities of earthquakes, war, and famine. This last he ascribes to locusts and devouring mice, which had for four years together so destroyed the fruits of the earth as to cause an almost total failure of their crops. It was customary for the ancient heathen to offer to their gods such monuments of their deliverance as represented the evils from which they had been rescued; and Tavernier informs us, that among the Indians, when a pilgrim goes to one of the pagodas for a cure, he brings the figure of the member affected, made of gold, silver, or copper, according to his circumstances, which he offers to his god.
- Exodus 8:5, 17, 24; Exodus 10:14, 15; Joel 1:4–7; Joel 2:25
- give glory
- Joshua 7:19; Psalm 18:44; Psalm 66:3; Isaiah 42:12; Jeremiah 3:13; Jeremiah 13:16; Malachi 2:2; John 9:24; Revelation 11:13; Revelation 16:9
- lighten
- 1 Samuel 5:6, 11; Psalm 32:4; Psalm 39:10
- off your
- 1 Samuel 5:3, 4, 7; Exodus 12:12; Numbers 33:4; Isaiah 19:1