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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1Sa 6:5 — Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
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mice
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Bochart has collected many curious accounts relative to the terrible devastations made by these mischievous animals. William, Archbishop of Tyre, records, that in the beginning of the twelfth century, a penitential council was held at Naplouse, where five and twenty canons were framed for the correction of the manners of the inhabitants of the Christian kingdom of Jerusalem, who they apprehended had provoked to bring upon them the calamities of earthquakes, war, and famine. This last he ascribes to locusts and devouring mice, which had for four years together so destroyed the fruits of the earth as to cause an almost total failure of their crops. It was customary for the ancient heathen to offer to their gods such monuments of their deliverance as represented the evils from which they had been rescued; and Tavernier informs us, that among the Indians, when a pilgrim goes to one of the pagodas for a cure, he brings the figure of the member affected, made of gold, silver, or copper, according to his circumstanc |
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give glory
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Jos 7:19; Psa 18:44; Psa 66:3; *marg:; Isa 42:12; Jer 3:13; Jer 13:16; Mal 2:2; Jhn 9:24; Rev 11:13; Rev 16:9 |
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lighten
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1Sa 5:6,11; Psa 32:4; Psa 39:10 |
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off your
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1Sa 5:3,4,7; Exd 12:12; Num 33:4; Isa 19:1 |
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Jos 7:19 |
And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the LORD God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide [it] not from me. |
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Psa 18:44 |
As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me. |
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Psa 66:3 |
Say unto God, How terrible [art thou in] thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee. |
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Isa 42:12 |
Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands. |
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Jer 3:13 |
Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD. |
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Jer 13:16 |
Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, [and] make [it] gross darkness. |
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Mal 2:2 |
If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay [it] to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay [it] to heart. |
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Jhn 9:24 |
Then again called they the man that was blind, and said unto him, Give God the praise: we know that this man is a sinner. |
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Rev 11:13 |
And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven. |
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Rev 16:9 |
And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory. |
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1Sa 5:6 |
But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, [even] Ashdod and the coasts thereof. |
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1Sa 5:11 |
So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there. |
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Psa 32:4 |
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah. |
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Psa 39:10 |
Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. |
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1Sa 5:3 |
And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon [was] fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the LORD. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again. |
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1Sa 5:4 |
And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon [was] fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands [were] cut off upon the threshold; only [the stump of] Dagon was left to him. |
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1Sa 5:7 |
And when the men of Ashdod saw that [it was] so, they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us: for his hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god. |
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Exd 12:12 |
For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I [am] the LORD. |
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Num 33:4 |
For the Egyptians buried all [their] firstborn, which the LORD had smitten among them: upon their gods also the LORD executed judgments. |
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Isa 19:1 |
The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "1 Samuel 6:5," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/1Sa/6/5.html>.
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