1 Samuel 5:6
And the hand of the Lord was heavy upon Azotus, and he brought evil upon them, and it burst out upon them into the ships, and mice sprang up in the midst of their country, and there was a + 5:6 Gr. great confusion of death.great and indiscriminate mortality in the city.
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Genesis 41:31And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of the famine that shall be after this, for it shall be very grievous.
Deuteronomy 28:27The Lord smite thee with the botch of Egypt in the seat, and with a malignant scab, and itch, so that thou canst not be healed.
1 Samuel 5:9And it came to pass after it went about to Geth, that the hand of the Lord comes upon the city, a very great confusion; and he smote the men of the city small and great, and smote them in their secret parts: and the Gittites made to themselves images of emerods.
1 Samuel 6:4And they say, What is the offering for the plague which we shall return to it? and they said,
Psalms 32:4For the word of the Lord is right; and all his works are + 32:4 Rather, Gr. in or with faithfulness.faithful.
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 5:2-6
The Fall of Dagon. ( b. c. 1120.) 1 And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer unto Ashdod. 2 When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon. 3 And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the Lord . And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again. 4 And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground… Read the whole commentary →