1Sa 6:18 Cross References

1 Samuel 6:18

18: The five gold rats represented the five Philistine cities and their surrounding villages, which were controlled by the five rulers. The large rock at Beth-shemesh, where they set the Ark of the LORD, still stands in the field of Joshua as a reminder of what happened there.

1 Samuel 6:14

  1. The cart came into the field of a man named Joshua and stopped beside a large rock. So the people broke up the wood of the cart for a fire and killed the cows and sacrificed them to the LORD as a burnt offering.
  2. Several men of the tribe of Levi lifted the Ark of the LORD and the chest containing the gold rats and gold tumors from the cart and placed them on the large rock. Many burnt offerings and sacrifices were offered to the LORD that day by the people of Beth-shemesh.
  3. The five Philistine rulers watched all this and then returned to Ekron that same day.

Deuteronomy 3:5

  1. These were all fortified cities with high walls and barred gates. We also took many unwalled villages at the same time.

Joshua 13:3

  1. territory that belongs to the Canaanites. This land extends from the stream of Shihor, which is on the boundary of Egypt, northward to the boundary of Ekron,
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