1 Samuel 5:11

The people of Ekron called for another meeting of the Philistine rulers and told them: Send this chest back where it belongs. Then it will not kill us. Everyone was in a panic, because God was causing a lot of people to die.

1 Samuel 5:6

Jehovah dealt harshly with the people of Ashdod. He destroyed them by striking the people in the vicinity of Ashdod with tumors.

1 Samuel 5:8-9

The people of Ashdod called together the Philistine rulers. What shall we do with the Ark of the God of Israel? They asked. The rulers said: The Ark of the God of Israel must be taken to Gath. So the people took the Ark of the God of Israel there.

Isaiah 13:7-9

All hands will fall impaired (weakened). Every man's heart will melt (courage will fail).

Jeremiah 48:42-44

The nation of Moab will be destroyed. This is because they thought they were greater than Jehovah.

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So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.

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Isaiah 13:7
All hands will fall impaired (weakened). Every man's heart will melt (courage will fail).
Jeremiah 48:42
The nation of Moab will be destroyed. This is because they thought they were greater than Jehovah.

General references

Genesis 20:17
Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female slaves so that they could have children.
1 Samuel 6:20
They said: No other God is like Jehovah! Who can go near him and still live? We must send the chest away from here. But where can we send it?