1 Samuel 6:5

6:5 You should make images of the sores and images of the mice that are destroying the land. You should honor the God of Israel. Perhaps he will release his grip on you, your gods, and your land.

1 Samuel 6:17-18

6:17 These are the gold sores that the Philistines brought as a guilt offering to the Lord – one for each of the following cities: Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron. 6:18 The gold mice corresponded in number to all the Philistine cities of the five leaders, from the fortified cities to hamlet villages, to greater Abel, where they positioned the ark of the Lord until this very day in the field of Joshua who was from Beth Shemesh.


tn Heb “your mice.” A Qumran ms has simply “the mice.”

tn Heb “Perhaps he will lighten his hand from upon you and from upon your gods and from upon your land.”

tc A few Hebrew mss and the LXX read “villages; the large rock…[is witness] until this very day.”