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1 Samuel  


6 : 1 The ark of theLordwas in the country of the Philistines seven months.
6 : 2 And the Philistines called for the priests andthe diviners and said,What shall we do with the ark of theLord? Tell us with what we shall send it to its place.
6 : 3 They said,If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it empty, but by all means return hima guilt offering. Then you will be healed, and it will be known to you whyhis hand does not turn away from you.
6 : 4 And they said,What is the guilt offering that we shall return to him?They answered,Five goldentumors and five golden mice,according to the number of the lords of the Philistines, for the same plague was on all of you and on your lords.
6 : 5 So you must make images of yourtumors and images of your mice that ravage the land,and give glory to the God of Israel. Perhapshe will lighten his hand from off youand your gods and your land.
6 : 6 Why should you harden your hearts asthe Egyptians andPharaoh hardened their hearts? After he had dealt severely with them,did they not send the people away, and they departed?
6 : 7 Now then, take and preparea new cart and two milk cowson which there has never come a yoke, and yoke the cows to the cart, but take their calves home, away from them.
6 : 8 And take the ark of theLordand place it on the cart and put in a box at its sidethe figures of gold, which you are returning to him asa guilt offering. Then send it off and let it go its way
6 : 9 and watch. If it goes up on the way to its own land, toBeth-shemesh, then it is he who has done us this great harm, but if not, then we shall know that it is nothis hand that struck us; it happened to us by coincidence.
6 : 10 The men did so, and took two milk cows and yoked them to the cart and shut up their calves at home.
6 : 11 And they put the ark of theLordon the cart and the box with the golden mice and the images of their tumors.
6 : 12 And the cows went straight in the direction ofBeth-shemesh alongone highway, lowing as they went. They turned neither to the right nor to the left, and the lords of the Philistines went after them as far as the border ofBeth-shemesh.
6 : 13 Now the people ofBeth-shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley. And when they lifted up their eyes and saw the ark, they rejoiced to see it.
6 : 14 The cart came into the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh and stopped there.A great stone was there. And they split up the wood of the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to theLord.
6 : 15 And the Levites took down the ark of theLordand the box that was beside it, in which were the golden figures, and set them uponthe great stone. And the men ofBeth-shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices on that day to theLord.
6 : 16 And whenthe five lords of the Philistines saw it, they returned that day to Ekron.
6 : 17 These are the golden tumors that the Philistines returned as aguilt offering to theLord: one for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ashkelon, one for Gath, one for Ekron,
6 : 18 and the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords,both fortified cities and unwalled villages.The great stone beside which they set down the ark of theLordis a witness to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh.
6 : 19 And he struck some of the men of Beth-shemesh, because they looked upon the ark of theLord. He struck seventy men of them,and the people mourned because theLordhad struck the people with a great blow.
6 : 20 Then the men of Beth-shemesh said,Who is able to stand before theLord, this holy God? And to whom shall he go up away from us?
6 : 21 So they sent messengers to the inhabitants ofKiriath-jearim, saying,The Philistines have returned the ark of theLord. Come down and take it up to you.