1 Samuele 5:11

11 E per questa cagione mandarono a raunare tutti i principi de’ Filistei, e dissero loro: Rimandate l’Arca dell’Iddio d’Israele, e ritorni al suo luogo, e non faccia morir me, e il mio popolo; perciocchè v’era uno spavento di morte per tutta la città; e la mano del Signore era molto aggravata in quel luogo.

1 Samuele 5:11 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 5:11

So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the
Philistines
As the men of Ashdod had done before on the same account, ( 1 Samuel 5:8 )

and said, send away the ark of the God of Israel;
as these lords were united in their government, and made one common cause of it against Israel, one could not dispose of this capture without the consent of the rest; otherwise the lord of Ekron, with his princes, were clearly in it that it was right and best to send it away out of any of their principalities:

and let it go again to its own place;
to the land of Israel and Shiloh there, though to that it never returned more:

that it slay us not, and our people;
that is, all of them, for great numbers had been slain already, as follows:

for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city;
a mortal disease went through the whole city, and swept away a multitude of people:

the hand of God was very heavy there;
it seems by the expression to haste been heavier on the inhabitants of this city than upon those of Ashdod and Gath, which made them the more pressing to get rid of the ark.

1 Samuele 5:11 In-Context

9 Ma, poichè fu trasportata in Gat, la mano del Signore fu sopra la città, con gran turbamento; ed egli percosse gli uomini della città, dal maggiore al minore; e vennero loro delle morici nascoste.

10 Perciò mandarono l’Arca di Dio in Ecron; e, come l’Arca di Dio giunse in Ecron, quei di Ecron sclamarono, dicendo: Hanno trasportata l’Arca dell’Iddio d’Israele a me, per far morir me, e il mio popolo.

11 E per questa cagione mandarono a raunare tutti i principi de’ Filistei, e dissero loro: Rimandate l’Arca dell’Iddio d’Israele, e ritorni al suo luogo, e non faccia morir me, e il mio popolo; perciocchè v’era uno spavento di morte per tutta la città; e la mano del Signore era molto aggravata in quel luogo.

12 E gli uomini che non morivano erano percossi di morici; e il grido della città salì infino al cielo.