1 Samuel Chapter 6
6:1 | And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines seven months. |
6:2 | And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, What shall we ![]() |
6:3 | And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of ![]() |
6:4 | 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. |
6:5 | Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give ![]() ![]() |
6:6 | Wherefore then ![]() |
6:7 | 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 ![]() ![]() |
6:8 | And take the ark of the LORD, 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. |
6:9 | And ![]() ![]() |
6:10 | And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their ![]() ![]() |
6:11 | And they laid the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of ![]() |
6:12 | 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 unto the border of Bethshemesh. |
6:13 | And [they of] Bethshemesh [were] reaping their ![]() ![]() |
6:14 | And the cart came into the field of Joshua, 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 unto the LORD. |
6:15 | And the Levites took down the ark of the LORD, and the coffer that [was] with it, wherein the jewels of ![]() ![]() |
6:16 | And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen [it], they returned to Ekron the same ![]() |
6:17 | And these [are] the golden emerods which the Philistines returned [for] a trespass offering unto the LORD; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one; |
6:18 | 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 LORD: [which stone remaineth] unto this ![]() |
6:19 | And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten [many] of the people with a great slaughter. |
6:20 | And the men of Bethshemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy LORD God? and to whom shall he go up from us? |
6:21 | And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjathjearim, saying, The Philistines have brought again the ark of the LORD; come ye down, [and] fetch it up to you. |