And when the five rulers of the Philistines saw this, they returned to Ekron that same day.
“What guilt offering should we send back to Him?” asked the Philistines. “Five gold tumors and five gold rats,” they sai
from the Shihor east of Egypt to the territory of Ekron on the north (considered to be Canaanite territory)—that of the
the five rulers of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived in the mountains of Leb
So they sent the ark of God to Ekron, but as it arrived, the Ekronites cried out, “They have brought us the ark of the G
The lords of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice him and find out the source of his great strength and how we
And the cows headed straight up the road toward Beth-shemesh, staying on that one highway and lowing as they went, never
Now the lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. They rejoiced and said