1 Samuel 6:16

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

and the five princes of the Philistines have seen [it], and return [to] Ekron, on that day.

YLT

and the five princes of the Philistines have seen [it], and turn back [to] Ekron, on that day.

DBY

And the five lords of the Philistines saw [it], and returned to Ekron the same day.

DRC

And the five princes of the Philistines saw, and they returned to Accaron the same day.

GNV

And when the fiue Princes of ye Philistims had seene it, they returned to Ekron the same day.

JPS

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

LXXE

And the five lords of the Philistines saw, and returned to Ascalon in that day.

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Original-language editions

WLC

וַחֲמִשָּׁ֥ה סַרְנֵֽי־פְלִשְׁתִּ֖ים רָא֑וּ וַיָּשֻׁ֥בוּ עֶקְר֖וֹן בַּיּ֥וֹם הַהֽוּא׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ οἱ πέντε σατράπαι τῶν ἀλλοφύλων ἑώρων, καὶ ἀνέστρεψαν εἰς Ἀσκάλωνα τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ.

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• Judges 3:3the five rulers of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived in the mountains of Lebanon from Mount Baal-hermon to Lebo-hamath.
• Joshua 13:3from the Shihor east of Egypt to the territory of Ekron on the north (considered to be Canaanite territory)—that of the five Philistine rulers of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron, as well as that of the Avvites;
• 1 Samuel 6:4“What guilt offering should we send back to Him?” asked the Philistines. “Five gold tumors and five gold rats,” they said, “according to the number of rulers of the Philistines, since the same plague has struck both…
• 1 Samuel 6:12And the cows headed straight up the road toward Beth-shemesh, staying on that one highway and lowing as they went, never straying to the right or to the left. The rulers of the Philistines followed behind them to the…
• Judges 16:5The lords of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice him and find out the source of his great strength and how we can overpower him to tie him up and subdue him. Then each one of us will give you eleven hundred…
• Judges 16:23–30Now the lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. They rejoiced and said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hands.” And when the people saw him, they…
• 1 Samuel 5:10So they sent the ark of God to Ekron, but as it arrived, the Ekronites cried out, “They have brought us the ark of the God of Israel in order to kill us and our people!”

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