1 Samuel 6:17
And these are the golden emerods, which the Philistines returned for sin to the Lord: For Azotus one, for Gaza one, for Ascalon one, for Geth one, for Accaron one:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
16And the five princes of the Philistines saw, and they returned to Accaron the same day.
Cross References
Judges 1:18And Juda took Gaza with its confines, and Ascalon and Accaron with their confines.
Judges 16:1He went also into Gaza, and saw there a woman a harlot, and went in unto her.
1 Samuel 5:1And the Philistines took the ark of God, and carried it from the Stone of help into Azotus.
1 Samuel 5:10Therefore they sent the ark of God into Accaron. And when the ark of God was come into Accaron, the Accaronites cried out, saying: They have brought the ark of the God of Israel to us, to kill us and our people.
2 Samuel 1:20Tell it not in Geth, publish it not in the streets of Ascalon: lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph,
2 Kings 1:2And Ochozias fell through the lattices of his upper chamber which he had in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, saying to them: Go, consult Beelzebub, the god of Accaron, whether I shall recover of this my illness.
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 6:11-19
The Restoration of the Ark. ( b. c. 1119.) 10 And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home: 11 And they laid the ark of the Lord upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods. 12 And the kine took the straight way to the way of Beth-shemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of… Read the whole commentary →