They sent therefore, and gathered all the princes of the Philistines unto them, and said, [a]What shall we do with the Ark of the God of Israel? And they answered, Let the Ark of the God of Israel be carried about unto Gath: and they carried the Ark of the God of Israel about.

And when they had carried it about, the hand of the Lord was against the city with a very great destruction, and he smote the men of the city both small and great, and they had emerods in their secret parts.

10 ¶ Therefore they sent the Ark of God to Ekron: and as soon as the Ark of God came to Ekron, the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought the Ark of the God of Israel to us to slay us and our people.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 5:8 Though they had felt God’s power, and were afraid thereof, yet they would further try him, which thing God turned to their destruction and his glory.

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