Mice
When the Philistines took the ark of the LORD, trouble followed them from city to city. Their priests advised sending it back with a trespass offering: five golden emerods and five golden mice, one for each lord, because the plague and the mice “mar the land”. They were told to “give glory unto the God of Israel” and hope his hand would lighten. The golden mice rode in a coffer beside the ark on a cart. First Samuel 6 tells it plainly, and even outsiders end up acknowledging whose hand was heavy on them.
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1 Samuel
Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines: for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.
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, and from off your land.
And they laid the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.
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.