And the golden mice, [according to] the number of all the cities of the Philistines [belonging] to the five lords, [both] of fenced cities, and of country villages, even unto the great [stone of] Abel, whereon they set down the ark of the LORD: [which stone remaineth] unto this day in the field of Joshua, the Bethshemite.
Ver. 18. Both of fenced cities.] So that the golden mice seem to have been many more than the emerods.
Unto the great stone of Abel,] i.e., Of grief, so called from the great slaughter there made. 1Sa 6:19 See Genesis 50:11 .