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1 Samuel 6:17

in 1 Samuel 6

As a guilt offering to the LORD, the Philistines had sent back one gold tumor for each city: Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And these are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned for a trespass-offering unto Jehovah: for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;

KJV

And these are the golden emerods which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering unto the Lord; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;

This verse in 1 Samuel 6

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
And these are the golden emerods, which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering unto the Lord,.... Along with the ark: for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ashkelon, one, for Gath one, for Ekron one; which were the five principalities of the Philistines that belonged to the five lords before mentioned; and each of these were at the expense of a golden emerod, and sent it along with the ark to make atonement for the offence they had been guilty of in taking and detaining it.

This site's exposition

one gold tumor for each city

on 1 Samuel 6:17-18

The gold tumors are counted by city, “Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron”. The gold rats are counted by every fortified city and outlying village the plague reached. The narrator adds that the large rock still “stands to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh”, an eyewitness marker.

The record, by era

The Medieval Church1 voice

A commentator

Gregory the Dialogist

Commentary on 1 Kings, Book 3, Chapter 4 · Written before 604.

proposed

29. What all these things signify has been set forth at length above. But what does it mean that when the debt owed to the ark is commanded to be paid for sin, five golden hemorrhoids and five mice are named together; yet when what was owed is declared to have already been paid, individual cities are reported to have each paid one separately?

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

These are the golden emerods - Each of these cities, in what may be called its corporate capacity, sent a golden emerod.

The words behind it

18 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְאֵ֙לֶּה֙and these

    veelehH428 →746 times

  • טְחֹרֵ֣י[are] [the] tumors of

    techoreiH2914 →8 times

  • הַזָּהָ֔ב<the> gold

    hazahavH2091 →389 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֨רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • הֵשִׁ֧יבוּthey sent back

    heshivuH7725 →1056 times

  • פְלִשְׁתִּ֛ים[the] Philistines

    felishtimH6430 →287 times

  • אָשָׁ֖םa guilt offering

    ʾashamH817 →46 times

  • לַֽיהוָ֑הto Yahweh

    layahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • לְאַשְׁדּ֨וֹדfor Ashdod

    leashdodH795 →17 times

  • אֶחָ֜דone

    ʾechadH259 →971 times

  • לְעַזָּ֤הfor Gaza

    leazahH5804 →

  • אֶחָד֙one

    ʾechadH259 →971 times

  • לְאַשְׁקְל֣וֹןfor Ashkelon

    leashkelonH831 →

  • אֶחָ֔דone

    ʾechadH259 →971 times

  • לְגַ֥תfor Gath

    legatH1661 →32 times

  • אֶחָ֖דone

    ʾechadH259 →971 times

  • לְעֶקְר֥וֹןfor Ekron

    leekronH6138 →22 times

  • אֶחָֽד׃ סone

    ʾechadH259 →971 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Judges 16:21

    Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze shackles and forced to grind grain in the prison.

    it leads to

    • Proverbs 2:19

      None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.

    • Proverbs 14:14

      The backslider in heart receives the fill of his own ways, but a good man is rewarded for his ways.

    • Exodus 11:5

      and every firstborn son in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, to the firstborn of the servant girl behind the hand mill, as well…

  • Through

    2 Samuel 1:20

    Tell it not in Gath; proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, and the daughters of the uncircumcised exult.

    it leads to

    • Micah 1:10

      Do not tell it in Gath; do not weep at all. Roll in the dust in Beth-leaphrah.

    • 1 Samuel 18:6

      As the troops were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing, with joyful songs, and…

  • Through

    2 Samuel 21:22

    So these four descendants of Rapha in Gath fell at the hands of David and his servants.

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 20:8

      So these descendants of Rapha in Gath fell at the hands of David and his servants.

    • Romans 8:31

      What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

  • Through

    Judges 16:1

    One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went in to spend the night with her.

    it leads to

    • Joshua 15:47

      Ashdod, with its towns and villages; Gaza, with its towns and villages, as far as the Brook of Egypt and the coastline of the Great Sea.

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Samuel

The Ark Is Returned to Beth-shemesh — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Ark Is Returned to Beth-shemesh — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Gregory the Dialogist, Commentary on 1 Kings, Book 3, Chapter 4; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.