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1 Samuel 6:1
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And the ark
of the
L
ORD
was in the country of the Philistines seven months.
2
And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, What shall we do to the ark of the
L
ORD
? tell us wherewith we shall send it to his place.
3
And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass offering: then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you.
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.
5
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.
6
Wherefore then do ye 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?
7
Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them:
8
And take the ark of the
L
ORD
, and lay it upon the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which ye return him
for
a trespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.
9
And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Beth-shemesh,
then
he hath 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.
10
And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:
11
And they laid the ark of the
L
ORD
upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.
12
And the kine took the straight way to the way of Beth-shemesh,
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 unto the border of Beth-shemesh.
13
And
they of
Beth-shemesh
were
reaping their wheat harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see
it
.
14
And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Beth-shemite, and stood there, where
there was
a great stone: and they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the
L
ORD
.
15
And the Levites took down the ark of the
L
ORD
, and the coffer that
was
with it, wherein the jewels of gold
were
, and put
them
on the great stone: and the men of Beth-shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto the
L
ORD
.
16
And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen
it
, they returned to Ekron the same day.
17
And these
are
the golden emerods which the Philistines returned
for
a trespass offering unto the
L
ORD
; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;
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 unto the great
stone of
Abel, whereon they set down the ark of the
L
ORD
:
which stone remaineth
unto this day in the field of Joshua, the Beth-shemite.
19
And he smote the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the
L
ORD
, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the
L
ORD
had smitten
many
of the people with a great slaughter.
20
And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy
L
ORD
God? and to whom shall he go up from us?
21
And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjath-jearim, saying, The Philistines have brought again the ark of the
L
ORD
; come ye down,
and
fetch it up to you.
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