1 Samuel 29:6-7

29:6 So Achish summoned David and said to him, “As surely as the Lord lives, you are an honest man, and I am glad to have you ¹  serving ²  with me in the army. ³  I have found no fault with you from the day that you first came to me until the present time. But in the opinion ⁴  of the leaders, you are not reliable. ⁵  29:7 So turn and leave ⁶  in peace. You must not do anything that the leaders of the Philistines consider improper!” ⁷ 

1 Samuel 5:8-11

5:8 So they assembled ⁸  all the leaders of the Philistines and asked, “What should we do with the ark of the God of Israel?” They replied, “The ark of the God of Israel should be moved to Gath.” So they moved the ark of the God of Israel.

5:9 But after it had been moved the Lord attacked ⁹  that city as well, causing a great deal of panic. He struck all the people of that city ¹⁰  with sores. ¹¹  5:10 So they sent the ark of God to Ekron.

But when the ark of God arrived at Ekron, the residents of Ekron cried out saying, “They have brought the ark of the God of Israel here ¹²  to kill our ¹³  people!” 5:11 So they assembled ¹⁴  all the leaders of the Philistines and said, “Get the ark of the God of Israel out of here! Let it go back to its own place so that it won’t kill us ¹⁵  and our ¹⁶  people!” The terror ¹⁷  of death was throughout the entire city; God was attacking them very severely there. ¹⁸ 

1 Samuel 6:4

6:4 They inquired, “What is the guilt offering that we should send to him?”

They replied, “The Philistine leaders number five. So send five gold sores and five gold mice, for it is the same plague that has afflicted both you and your leaders.

Joshua 13:3

13:3 from the Shihor River ¹⁹  east of ²⁰  Egypt northward to the territory of Ekron (it is regarded as Canaanite territory), ²¹  including the area belonging to the five Philistine lords who ruled in Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron, as well as Avvite land ²² 

¹ tn Heb “it is good in my eyes.” Cf. v. 7.

² tn Heb “your going forth and your coming in.” The expression is a merism.

³ tn Heb “camp.”

⁴ tn Heb “eyes.”

⁵ tn Heb “good.”

⁶ tn Heb “go.”

⁷ tn Heb “and you must not do evil in the eyes of the leaders of the Philistines.”

⁸ tn Heb “and they sent and gathered.”

⁹ tn Heb “the hand of the Lord was against the city.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “and he struck the men of the city from small and to great.”

¹¹ tn See the note on this term in v. 6. Cf. KJV “and they had emerods in their secret parts.”

¹² tn Heb “to me.”

¹³ tn Heb “my.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “and they sent and gathered.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “me.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “my.”

¹⁷ tn Or “panic.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “the hand of God was very heavy there.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “the Shihor”; the word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied to clarify the meaning.

²⁰ tn Heb “in front of.”

²¹ tn Heb “it is reckoned to the Canaanites.”

²² tn Heb “the five lords of the Philistines, the Gazaite, the Ashdodite, the Ashkelonite, the Gathite, and the Ekronite, and the Avvites.”