1 Samuel 6:17

The Return Of The Ark Of Covenant

¹⁶ And when the five cardinals of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day. ¹⁷ These are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned for a guilt offering to the Lord: one for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ashkelon, one for Gath, one for Ekron; ¹⁸ and the golden rats, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five cardinals; a ransom for those of the fenced cities and for the country dwellers even unto the great stone of Abel, upon which they placed the ark of the LORD in the field of Joshua, the Bethshemite, and this is remembered unto this day.

To the Lord

Trespass Offering

Guilt Offering

Ashdod

Ashkelon

Askelon

Ekron

Gath

Gaza

Hemorrhoids

Jehovah

Philistines

Sin

Judges 1:18

Also Judah took Gaza with its border and Askelon with its border and Ekron with its border.

Judges 16:1

Then Samson went to Gaza and saw a harlot there and went in unto her.

Judges 16:21

But the Philistines took hold of him and put out his eyes and brought him down to Gaza and bound him with fetters of iron that he should grind in the prison house.

1 Samuel 5:1

And the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it from Ebenezer unto Ashdod.

1 Samuel 5:8

They sent, therefore, and gathered all the cardinals of the Philistines unto themselves and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be removed unto Gath. And they removed the ark of the God of Israel there.

1 Samuel 5:10

Therefore, they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And when the ark of God came to Ekron, the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have removed the ark of the God of Israel unto us to kill me and my people.

1 Samuel 6:4

Then said they, What shall be the expiation of guilt which we shall pay unto him? They answered, Five golden hemorrhoids and five golden rats, according to the number of the cardinals of the Philistines, for the same plague that is on you is also on your cardinals.

2 Samuel 1:20

Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.

2 Samuel 21:22

These four were born to the giant in Gath and fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his slaves.

2 Kings 1:2

And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria and was sick, and he sent messengers and said unto them, Go, enquire of Baalzebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover of this disease.

2 Chronicles 26:6

For he went forth and warred against the Philistines and broke down the wall of Gath and the wall of Jabneh and the wall of Ashdod and built cities about Ashdod and among the Philistines.

Jeremiah 25:20

and to all the mingled people and to all the kings of the land of Uz and to all the kings of the land of the Philistines and to Ashkelon and to Gaza and to Ekron and to the remnant of Ashdod,

Amos 1:7-8

but I will send a fire in the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof.

Amos 6:2

Pass unto Calneh and see, and from there go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Palestinians. Are they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?

Zechariah 9:5-6

Ashkelon shall see it and fear; Gaza also shall see it and be very sorrowful, and Ekron for her hope shall be confounded; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.