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I
Samuel
Chapter
6
1
And the ark of Jehovah/God
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 Jehovah/God?
Tell
us wherewith we shall send it to his place.
3
And they said, If you send away
the
ark of the 'Elohiym/Godhead of Israel,
send
it not empty; but in any wise
return
him a trespass offering
then
you 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 lords of the Philistines
for
one plague was on you all, and on your lords.
5
Wherefore you shall make images of your emerods,
and
images of your mice that mar the land;
and
you shall give glory unto the 'Elohiym/Godhead of Israel
perhaps
he will lighten his hand from off you,
and
from off your 'elohiym/gods,
and
from off your land.
6
Why then do you harden your hearts/'right lobes',
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 has come no yoke,
and
tie the kine to the cart,
and
bring their calves home from them.
8
And take the ark of Jehovah/God,
and
lay it upon the cart; and put the jewels of gold,
which
you 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 goes up by the way
of
his own coast to Bethshemesh,
then
he has 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 Jehovah/God 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 Bethshemesh,
and
went along the highway, lowing as they went,
and
turned not aside to the right hand or to the left;
and
lords of the Philistines
went
after them unto the border of Bethshemesh.
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.
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 Jehovah/God.
15
And the Levites took down the ark of Jehovah/God,
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 Jehovah/God.
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 Jehovah/God;
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 Jehovah/God
which
stone remains unto this day
in
the field of Joshua, the Bethshemite.
19
And he smote the men of Bethshemesh,
because
they had looked into the ark of Jehovah/God,
even
he smote of the people
fifty
thousand and threescore and ten men
and
the people lamented,
because
Jehovah/God had smitten many of the people
with
a great slaughter.
20
And the men of Bethshemesh said,
Who
is able to stand before
this
holy Jehovah/God 'Elohiym/Godhead?
And
to whom shall he go up from us?
21
And they sent messengers
to
the inhabitants of Kirjathjearim, saying,
The
Philistines have brought again the ark of Jehovah
come
you down, and fetch it up to you.
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