New Revised Standard Version
When the five lords of the Philistines saw it, they returned that day to Ekron.

Contemporary English Version
When the five rulers of the Philistines saw what had happened, they went back to Ekron that same day.

New American Bible
After witnessing this, the five Philistine leaders returned to Ekron the same day.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the five princes of the Philistines saw, and they returned to Accaron the same day.

And the five princes of the Philistines saw, and they returned to Accaron the same day.

the five

1 Samuel 6:4,12 They answered: What is it we ought to render unto him for sin? and they answered: . . .

Joshua 13:3 From the troubled river, that watereth Egypt, unto the border of Accaron northward: the land of Chanaan, which is divided among the lords of the Philistines, the Gazites, the Azotians, the Ascalonites, the Gethites, and the Accronites.

Judges 3:3 The five princes of the Philistines, and all the Chanaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hevites that dwelt in Mount Libanus, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entering into Emath.

Judges 16:5,23-30 And the princes of the Philistines came to her, and said: Deceive him, and learn of him wherein his great strength lieth, and how we may be able to overcome him, to bind and afflict him: which if thou shalt do, we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver. . . .

they returned

1 Samuel 5:10 Therefore they sent the ark of God into Accaron. And when the ark of God was come into Accaron, the Accaronites cried out, saying: They have brought the ark of the God of Israel to us, to kill us and our people.