1 Samuel 5:8-10

The Voice

^8-9 So they gathered together all the rulers of the Philistines to ask what should be done with the covenant chest of Israel’s God.

They did so. But after they had moved the chest of the True God of Israel to Gath, another of the capital cities, the hand of the Eternal One began to punish the people of Gath and sent them into a panic. He also struck them with swollen, painful, tumor-like growths—the young and old alike. ¹⁰ So then they sent the covenant chest of the True God of Israel on to a third capital city, Ekron; but when the people of Ekron saw that the covenant chest was coming, they protested.