6 SHEMU'EL -1- SAMUEL 6

The Philistines Consult How To Send Back The Ark

1 SHEMU'EL - 1 SAMUEL 6:1

  1     ^¶  And the ark of YAHWEH was in the country of the Philistines seven months.

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  2    And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, What shall we do to the ark of YAHWEH? tell us wherewith we shall send it to his place.

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  3    And they said, If you send away the ark of YAHWEH of Yisrael, send it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass offering: then you shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why His hand is not removed from you.

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  4    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.

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  5    Wherefore you shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and you shall give honor to YAHWEH the Sovereign Ruler of Yisrael: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.

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  6    Wherefore then do you harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?

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  7    Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there has come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them:

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  8    And take the ark of YAHWEH, and lay it upon the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which you return him for a trespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.

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  9    And see, if it goes up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, then he has done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not His hand that smote us: it was a chance that happened to us.

They Bring It To Bethshemesh

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  10     ^¶  And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:

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  11    And they laid the ark of YAHWEH upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.

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  12    And the kine took the straight way to the way of Bethshemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them to the border of Bethshemesh.

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  13    And they of Bethshemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.

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  14    And the cart came into the field of Yahshua, a Bethshemite, and stood there, where [there was] a great stone: and they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering to YAHWEH.

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  15    And the Levites took down the ark of YAHWEH, and the coffer that was with it, wherein the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Bethshemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day to YAHWEH.

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  16    And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.

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  17    And these are the golden emerods which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering to YAHWEH; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;

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  18    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 to the great [stone of] Abel, whereon they set down the ark of YAHWEH: [which stone remains] to this day in the field of Yahshua, the Bethshemite.

The People Smitten For Looking Into The Ark

1 SHEMU'EL - 1 SAMUEL 6:19

  19     ^¶  And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of YAHWEH, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because YAHWEH had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.

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  20    And the men of Bethshemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy YAHWEH the great Sovereign Ruler? and to whom shall he go up from us?

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  21    And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjathjearim, saying, The Philistines have brought again the ark of YAHWEH; come you down, and fetch it up to you.