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1 Samuel 6 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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The Ark Returned to Israel

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Now the ark of Yahweh had been in the [fn]fields of the Philistines seven months.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:2 - And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, “What shall we do with the ark of Yahweh? Make us know [fn]how we shall send it to its place.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:3 - So they said, “If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it empty; but you shall surely return to Him a guilt offering. Then you will be healed, and it will be known to you why His hand is not turned away from you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:4 - Then they said, “What shall be the guilt offering which we shall return to Him?” And they said, “Five golden tumors and five golden mice according to the number of the lords of the Philistines, for one plague was on all of [fn]you and on your lords.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:5 - “So you shall make likenesses of your tumors and likenesses of your mice that bring the land to ruin, and you shall give glory to the God of Israel; perhaps He will ease His hand from you, your gods, and your land.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 6:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:6 - “Why then do you [fn]harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh [fn]hardened their hearts? When He had abused them, did they not allow [fn]the people to go, and they went?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:7 - “So now, take and make a new cart and two milch cows on which there has never been a yoke; and hitch the cows to the cart and take their calves home, away from them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:8 - “And take the ark of Yahweh and place it on the cart; and put the articles of gold which you return to Him as a guilt offering in a box by its side. Then send it away that it may go.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:9 - “See, if it goes up by the way of its own territory to Beth-shemesh, then He has done us this great evil. But if not, then we will know that it was not His hand that smote us; it happened to us by chance.”

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Then the men did so and took two milch cows and hitched them to the cart and shut up their calves at home.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:11 - And they put the ark of Yahweh on the cart, as well as the box with the golden mice and the likenesses of their tumors.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:12 - And the cows took the straight way in the [fn]direction of Beth-shemesh; they went along the highway, lowing as they went, and did not turn aside to the right or to the left. And the lords of the Philistines went after them to the border of Beth-shemesh.

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Now the people of Beth-shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley, and they raised their eyes and saw the ark and were glad to see it.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:14 - And the cart came into the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite and stood there, and a large stone was there; and they split the wood of the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:15 - And the Levites took down the ark of Yahweh and the box that was with it, in which were the articles of gold, and put them on the large stone; and the men of Beth-shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices that day to Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:16 - So the five lords of the Philistines saw it and returned to Ekron that day.

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Now these are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned for a guilt offering to Yahweh: one for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ashkelon, one for Gath, one for Ekron;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:18 - and the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fortified cities and of country villages. The large [fn]stone on which they set the ark of Yahweh is a witness to this day in the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite.

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Then He struck down some of the men of Beth-shemesh because they had looked into the ark of Yahweh. He struck down of all the people, 50,070 men, and the people mourned because Yahweh had struck the people with a great slaughter.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:20 - And the men of Beth-shemesh said, “Who is able to stand before Yahweh, this holy God? And to whom shall He go up from us?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:21 - So they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath-jearim, saying, “The Philistines have brought back the ark of Yahweh; come down and take it up to you.”
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Or country
Or with what
Lit them
Or glory, cf. 5:6, 11; 6:5
Or glory, cf. 5:6, 11; 6:5
Lit them
Lit way
As in some mss and versions; Heb abel
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