When the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.
Parallel translations
- KJV And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.
- BSB And when the five rulers of the Philistines saw this, they returned to Ekron that same day.
- NKJV So when the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.
- NASB When the five governors of the Philistines saw it, they returned to Ekron that day.
- NLT The five Philistine rulers watched all this and then returned to Ekron that same day.
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Having witnessed the ark's return, the five Philistine lords go back to Ekron that same day. The enemy departs once their guilt offering is delivered.
Overview
The Philistine rulers, having followed the cart to the border and seen the outcome, return home. Their eyewitness presence confirms the legitimacy of the events. The Philistines, having learned the power of Israel's God, withdraw, leaving the ark restored to His people.
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Cross-references · 7
- Judg 3:3the five lords of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entrance of Hamath.
- Josh 13:3from the Shihor, which is before Egypt, even to the border of Ekron northward, which is counted as Canaanite; the five lords of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avvim,
- 1 Sam 6:4Then they said, “What should the trespass offering be which we shall return to him?” They said, “Five golden tumors, and five golden mice, for the number of the lords of the Philistines; for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.
- Judg 16:5The lords of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, “Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.”
- 1 Sam 6:12The cows took the straight way by the way to Beth Shemesh. They went along the highway, lowing as they went, and didn’t turn aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them to the border of Beth Shemesh.
- 1 Sam 5:10So they sent God’s ark to Ekron. As God’s ark came to Ekron, the Ekronites cried out, saying, “They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to kill us and our people.”
- Judg 16:23–30The lords of the Philistines gathered them together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.”
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