1 Samuel 6:5 meaning and explanation
Make images of your tumors and of the rats that are ravaging the land. Give glory to the God of Israel, and perhaps He will lift His hand from you and your gods and your land.
1 Samuel 6:5, Berean Standard Bible
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The Philistine priests and diviners answer their own rulers, who have suffered tumors and a rat plague since capturing the ark. These counselors borrow a practice familiar across the ancient Near East: making models of the affliction and presenting them with the returning ark as a guilt offering.
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