1 Samuel 6:17
in 1 Samuel 6As 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;
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This verse in 1 Samuel 6
Commentary
4 notes on this verseAnd 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
these are the golden emerods
on 1 Samuel 6:17-18
The five images are counted out by city, Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath and Ekron, the same five lords named through the Philistine story down to Goliath's own city among them. The golden mice are then counted by every fenced city and open village the plague had reached, a scale of damage the emerods alone did not show. The narrator adds that the great stone still stood in Joshua's field when he wrote, an eyewitness marker of the kind Samuel's book plants at several turns.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church1 voice
A commentator
Gregory the DialogistCommentary 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
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 wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְאֵ֙לֶּה֙ | veeleh | and these | H428 → | 746 times |
| טְחֹרֵ֣י | techorei | [are] [the] tumors of | H2914 → | 8 times |
| הַזָּהָ֔ב | hazahav | <the> gold | H2091 → | 389 times |
| אֲשֶׁ֨ר | ʾasher | which | H834 → | 5497 times |
| הֵשִׁ֧יבוּ | heshivu | they sent back | H7725 → | 1056 times |
| פְלִשְׁתִּ֛ים | felishtim | [the] Philistines | H6430 → | 287 times |
| אָשָׁ֖ם | ʾasham | a guilt offering | H817 → | 46 times |
| לַֽיהוָ֑ה | layahweh | to Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| לְאַשְׁדּ֨וֹד | leashdod | for Ashdod | H795 → | 17 times |
| אֶחָ֜ד | ʾechad | one | H259 → | 971 times |
| לְעַזָּ֤ה | leazah | for Gaza | H5804 → | |
| אֶחָד֙ | ʾechad | one | H259 → | 971 times |
| לְאַשְׁקְל֣וֹן | leashkelon | for Ashkelon | H831 → | |
| אֶחָ֔ד | ʾechad | one | H259 → | 971 times |
| לְגַ֥ת | legat | for Gath | H1661 → | 32 times |
| אֶחָ֖ד | ʾechad | one | H259 → | 971 times |
| לְעֶקְר֥וֹן | leekron | for Ekron | H6138 → | 22 times |
| אֶחָֽד׃ ס | ʾechad | one | H259 → | 971 times |
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 stopsEach 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 16:21Then 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…
- Proverbs 2:19
Through
2 Samuel 1:20Tell 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…
- Micah 1:10
Through
2 Samuel 21:22So 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?
- 1 Chronicles 20:8
Through
Judges 16:1One 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.
- Joshua 15:47
Where this verse is studied
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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.