1 Samuel 6:3-4

The Ark Returned to Israel

³ They said, "If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it empty, but by all means return him _b a guilt offering. Then you will be healed, and it will be known to you why _c his hand does not turn away from you." ⁴ And they said, "What is the guilt offering that we shall return to him?" They answered, "Five golden _d tumors and five golden mice, _e according to the number of the lords of the Philistines, for the same plague was on all of you and on your lords.

1. Cross References
   Leviticus 5:15 - 16
   If anyone commits a breach of faith and sins unintentionally in any of the holy things of the Lord, he shall bring to the Lord as his compensation, a ram without blemish out of the flock, valued in silver shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for a guilt offering.
   
2. Cross References
   1 Samuel 6:9
   And watch. If it goes up on the way to its own land, to Beth-shemesh, then it is he who has done us this great harm, but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us; it happened to us by coincidence.
   
3. Cross References
   1 Samuel 5:6
   The hand of the Lord was heavy against the people of Ashdod, and he terrified and afflicted them with tumors, both Ashdod and its territory.
   1 Samuel 5:9
   But after they had brought it around, the hand of the Lord was against the city, causing a very great panic, and he afflicted the men of the city, both young and old, so that tumors broke out on them.
   1 Samuel 5:12
   The men who did not die were struck with tumors, and the cry of the city went up to heaven.
   
4. Cross References
   1 Samuel 6:17 - 18
   These are the golden tumors that the Philistines returned as a guilt offering to the Lord : one for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ashkelon, one for Gath, one for Ekron.
   Joshua 13:3
   (from the Shihor, which is east of Egypt, northward to the boundary of Ekron, it is counted as Canaanite; there are five rulers of the Philistines, those of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron), and those of the Avvim.
   Judges 3:3
   These are the nations: the five lords of the Philistines and all the Canaanites and the Sidonians and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as Lebo-hamath.