1 Samuel 5:12

The men who didn’t die were struck with the tumors; and the cry of the city went up to heaven.

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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

11They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, “Send the ark of the God of Israel away, and let it go again to its own place, that it not kill us and our people.” For there was a deadly panic throughout all the city. The hand of God was very heavy there.

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Cross References

Exodus 12:30Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

1 Kings 19:17He who escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill; and he who escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha will kill.

Jeremiah 14:2“Judah mourns, and its gates languish. They sit in black on the ground. The cry of Jerusalem goes up.

Jeremiah 48:3The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation 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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