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1SA-6:1 And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the
Philistines seven months.
1SA-6:2 And the Philistines called for the priests and the
diviners, saying, What shall we do to the ark of the LORD? tell
us
wherewith we shall send it to his place.
1SA-6:3 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.
1SA-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.
1SA-6:5 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.
1SA-6:6 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?
1SA-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 calves home from them:
1SA-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.
1SA-6:9 And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to
Bethshemesh, [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.
1SA-6:10 And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied
them
to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:
1SA-6:11 And they laid the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and
the
coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.
1SA-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.
1SA-6:13 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].
1SA-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.
1SA-6:15 And the Levites took down the ark of the LORD, 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 unto the
LORD.
1SA-6:16 And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen
[it],
they returned to Ekron the same day.
1SA-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;
1SA-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 day in the field of Joshua, the Bethshemite.
1SA-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.
1SA-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?
1SA-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.
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