1 Samuel 6:16

And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen [it], they returned to Ekron the same day.

And when the five {H2568} lords {H5633} of the Philistines {H6430} had seen {H7200} it, they returned {H7725} to Ekron {H6138} the same day {H3117}.

Upon seeing this, the five leaders of the P'lishtim returned that day to 'Ekron.

And when the five rulers of the Philistines saw this, they returned to Ekron that same day.

And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.

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Cross-References

  • Judges 3:3 (3 votes)

    [Namely], five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath.

  • 1 Samuel 6:4 (3 votes)

    Then said they, What [shall be] the trespass offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, [according to] the number of the lords of the Philistines: for one plague [was] on you all, and on your lords.

  • Joshua 13:3 (3 votes)

    From Sihor, which [is] before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, [which] is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites:

  • 1 Samuel 6:12 (2 votes)

    And the kine took the straight way to the way of Bethshemesh, [and] went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside [to] the right hand or [to] the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Bethshemesh.

  • Judges 16:23 (2 votes)

    Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.

  • Judges 16:30 (2 votes)

    And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with [all his] might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that [were] therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than [they] which he slew in his life.

  • Judges 16:5 (2 votes)

    And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength [lieth], and by what [means] we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred [pieces] of silver.