The Ark Afflicts the Philistines
1 Samuel 5:12
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Those who did not die were afflicted with tumors, and the outcry of the city went up to heaven.
- KJV
- And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods: and the cry of the city went up to heaven.
- WEB
- The men who didn’t die were struck with the tumors; and the cry of the city went up to heaven.
- ASV
- And the men that died not were smitten with the tumors; and the cry of the city went up to heaven.
- LSV
- and the men who have not died have been struck with lumps, and the cry of the city goes up into the heavens.
- YLT
- and the men who have not died have been smitten with emerods, and the cry of the city goeth up into the heavens.
- DBY
- and the men that died not were smitten with the hemorrhoids; and the cry of the city went up to heaven.
- DRC
- For there was the fear of death in every city, and the hand of God was exceeding heavy. The men also that did not die, were afflicted with the emerods: and the cry of every city went up to heaven.
- GNV
- And the men that dyed not, were smitten with the emerods: and the cry of the citie went vp to heauen.
- JPS
- And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods; and the cry of the city went up to heaven.
- LXXE
- For there was a very great confusion in all the city, when the ark of the God of Israel entered there; and those who lived and died not were smitten with emerods; and the cry of the city went up to heaven.Gr. dead.
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- Written (Ketiv): בָּעֳפָלִים (“with the tumors”). Read aloud (Qere): בַּטְּחֹרִ֑ים (“with the tumors”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
- Leningrad Codex reads בַּעְפֹלִ֑ים; read aloud (Qere) reads בַּטְּחֹרִ֑ים (“with the tumors”).
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- וְהָֽאֲנָשִׁים֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר לֹא־מֵ֔תוּ הֻכּ֖וּ בעפלים וַתַּ֛עַל שַֽׁוְעַ֥ת הָעִ֖יר הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃Read aloud as (qere): בַּטְּחֹרִ֑יםAdaptations to a Qere which L and BHS, by their design, do not indicate.
- LXX-Br
- καὶ οἱ ζῶντες καὶ οὐκ ἀποθανόντες ἐπλήγησαν εἰς τὰς ἕδρας· καὶ ἀνέβη ἡ κραυγὴ τῆς πόλεως εἰς τὸν οὐρανόν.
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Cross-references most cited first
- Exodus 12:30During the night Pharaoh got up—he and all his officials and all the Egyptians—and there was loud wailing in Egypt; for there was no house without someone dead.
- Amos 5:19It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, only to be bitten by a snake.
- 1 Kings 19:17Then Jehu will put to death whoever escapes the sword of Hazael, and Elisha will put to death whoever escapes the sword of Jehu.
- 1 Samuel 9:16“At this time tomorrow I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you are to anoint him leader over My people Israel; he will save them from the hand of the Philistines. For I have looked upon My people,…
- Jeremiah 14:2“Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.
- Isaiah 15:3–5In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping. Heshbon and Elealeh cry out; their voices are heard as far as Jahaz. Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry…
- Jeremiah 25:34Wail, you shepherds, and cry out; roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock. For the days of your slaughter have come; you will fall and be shattered like fine pottery.
- Jeremiah 48:3A voice cries out from Horonaim: ‘Devastation and great destruction!’
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