1 Samuel 5:11

Contextual Overview

⁶ But the hand of Yahweh was heavy on them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with tumors, even Ashdod and the borders thereof. ⁶ Then the Lord 's heavy hand struck the people of Ashdod and the nearby villages with a plague of tumors. ⁶ But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with tumours, even Ashdod and the borders thereof. ⁶ The Lord was hard on the people of Ashdod and their neighbors. He caused them to suffer and gave them growths on their skin. ⁶ The Lord attacked the residents of Ashdod severely, bringing devastation on them. He struck the people of both Ashdod and the surrounding area with sores. 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 its borders. ⁶ But the hand of Yahweh was heavy on them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and struck them with tumors, even Ashdod and the borders of it. ⁶Then the hand of the LORD was heavy on the people of Ashdod, and He caused them to be dumbfounded and struck them with tumors, both Ashdod and its territory. ⁶ The hand of the Lord was heavy against the people of Ashdod, and he terrified and afflicted them with tumors, both Ashdod and its territory. ⁶ Forsothe the hond of the Lord was maad greuouse on men of Azotus, and he distriede hem, and he smoot Azotus and the coostis therof in the priuyere part of buttokis; and townes and feeldis in the myddis of that cuntrey buyliden out, and myis camen forth; and greet confusioun of deth was maad in the citee.

Bible Verse Review
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us not, and our people: Heb. me not, and my people

a deadly: Isaiah 13:7-9, Jeremiah 48:42-44

the hand: 1 Samuel 5:6, 1 Samuel 5:9

Reciprocal: Genesis 20:17 - General Deuteronomy 2:15 - the hand of the Ruth 1:13 - the hand 1 Samuel 6:1 - the ark 1 Samuel 6:3 - known 1 Samuel 6:5 - lighten 2 Samuel 6:9 - afraid 1 Chronicles 13:12 - afraid of God Psalms 32:4 - hand Psalms 38:2 - thy hand Ezekiel 39:21 - and my Acts 13:11 - hand

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines,.... As the men of Ashdod had done before on the same account, 1 Samuel 5:8

and said, send away the ark of the God of Israel; as these lords were united in their government, and made one common cause of it against Israel, one could not dispose of this capture without the consent of the rest; otherwise the lord of Ekron, with his princes, were clearly in it that it was right and best to send it away out of any of their principalities:

and let it go again to its own place; to the land of Israel and Shiloh there, though to that it never returned more:

that it slay us not, and our people; that is, all of them, for great numbers had been slain already, as follows:

for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; a mortal disease went through the whole city, and swept away a multitude of people:

the hand of God was very heavy there; it seems by the expression to haste been heavier on the inhabitants of this city than upon those of Ashdod and Gath, which made them the more pressing to get rid of the ark.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 5:11. Send away the ark — It appears that it had been received at Ekron, for there was a deadly destruction through the whole city. They therefore concluded that the ark should be sent back to Shiloh.