0 What did the Philistine priests say the people should make to stop God from smiting them with hemorrhoids?

Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed. Psalms 106:30

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What did the Philistine priests say the people should make to stop God from smiting them with hemorrhoids?


Five golden hemorrhoids and five golden mice

Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods. 1 Samuel 6:4
What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice.... Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods. 1 Samuel 6:4

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