Now the hand of the LORD was heavy on the people of Ashdod and its vicinity, ravaging them and afflicting them with tumors.
Then the Ekronites called together all the rulers of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel.
Now look, the hand of the Lord is against you, and for a time you will be blind and unable to see the light of the sun.”
For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah
then the hand of the LORD will bring a severe plague on your livestock in the field—on your horses, donkeys, camels, her
The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors and scabs and itch from which you cannot be cured.
And when the men of Ashdod saw what was happening, they said, “The ark of the God of Israel must not stay here with us,
He beat back His foes; He put them to everlasting shame.
Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity?
But after they had moved the ark to Gath, the LORD’s hand was also against that city, throwing it into great confusion a
“What guilt offering should we send back to Him?” asked the Philistines. “Five gold tumors and five gold rats,” they sai