1. 1 Samuel 6:17–18 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

Why is information about the golden tumours and golden mice (NIV: rats) repeated?

1 Samuel 6:17–18 (ESV)

17 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,

The repetition serves to confirm that compensation had been made for the whole land of the Philistines. All of their cities and the areas around them were meant to benefit from their guilt offering.1