17 (A)These are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned as a trespass offering to the Lord: one for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ashkelon, one for (B)Gath, one for Ekron; 18 and the golden rats, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both fortified cities and country villages, even as far as the large stone of Abel on which they set the ark of the Lord, which stone remains to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh.

19 Then (C)He struck the men of Beth Shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the Lord. [a]He (D)struck fifty thousand and seventy men of the people, and the people lamented because the Lord had struck the people with a great slaughter.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 6:19 Or He struck seventy men of the people and fifty oxen of a man

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