1 Samuel 5:12

Those who did not die were afflicted with tumors, and the outcry of the city went up to heaven.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods: and the cry of the city went up to heaven.

In Context

11Then the Ekronites called together all the rulers of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel. It must return to its place, so that it will not kill us and our people!” For a deadly confusion had pervaded the city; the hand of God was very heavy upon it.

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Cross References

Exodus 12:30During the night Pharaoh got up—he and all his officials and all the Egyptians—and there was loud wailing in Egypt; for there was no house without someone dead.

1 Kings 19:17Then Jehu will put to death whoever escapes the sword of Hazael, and Elisha will put to death whoever escapes the sword of Jehu.

Jeremiah 14:2“Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 48:3A voice cries out from Horonaim: ‘Devastation and great destruction!’

Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 5:7-12

The Distress of the Philistines. ( b. c. 1120.) 6 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. 7 And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us: for his hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god. 8 They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? And they… Read the whole commentary →

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