1 Samuel 6 - Study the King James Bible

And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines seven months.

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the ark: 1 Samuel 5:1, 1 Samuel 5:3, 1 Samuel 5:10, 1 Samuel 5:11, Psalms 78:61

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.

called: Genesis 41:8, Exodus 7:11, Isaiah 47:12, Isaiah 47:13, Daniel 2:2, Daniel 5:7, Matthew 2:4
wherewith: Micah 6:6-9
Reciprocal: Judges 18:17 - the graven Jonah 1:11 - What

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.

empty: Exodus 23:15, Exodus 34:20, Deuteronomy 16:16
a trespass: Leviticus 5:6, Leviticus 5:15-19, Leviticus 6:6, Leviticus 7:1-7
known: 1 Samuel 6:9, 1 Samuel 5:7, 1 Samuel 5:9, 1 Samuel 5:11, Job 10:2, Job 34:31, Job 34:32
Reciprocal: Exodus 8:19 - This is Jonah 1:11 - What

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.

Five golden: 1 Samuel 6:5, 1 Samuel 6:17, 1 Samuel 6:18, 1 Samuel 5:6, 1 Samuel 5:9, Exodus 12:35, Joshua 13:3, Judges 3:3
you all: Heb. them
Reciprocal: Exodus 11:1 - Yet will 1 Samuel 6:8 - jewels 1 Samuel 6:16 - the five 1 Samuel 29:2 - the lords Psalms 78:66 - And he Psalms 107:40 - contempt Isaiah 44:11 - all his

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.

mice: Bochart has collected many curious accounts relative to the terrible devastations made by these mischievous animals. William, Archbishop of Tyre, records, that in the beginning of the twelfth century, a penitential council was held at Naplouse, where five and twenty canons were framed for the correction of the manners of the inhabitants of the Christian kingdom of Jerusalem, who they apprehended had provoked to bring upon them the calamities of earthquakes, war, and famine. This last he ascribes to locusts and devouring mice, which had for four years together so destroyed the fruits of the earth as to cause an almost total failure of their crops. It was customary for the ancient heathen to offer to their gods such monuments of their deliverance as represented the evils from which they had been rescued; and Tavernier informs us, that among the Indians, when a pilgrim goes to one of the pagodas for a cure, he brings the figure of the member affected, made of gold, silver, or copper, according to his circumstances, which he offers to his god. Exodus 8:5, Exodus 8:17, Exodus 8:24, Exodus 10:14, Exodus 10:15, Joel 1:4-7, Joel 2:25
give glory: Joshua 7:19, Psalms 18:44, Psalms 66:3,*marg. Isaiah 42:12, Jeremiah 3:13, Jeremiah 13:16, Malachi 2:2, John 9:24, Revelation 11:13, Revelation 16:9
lighten: 1 Samuel 5:6, 1 Samuel 5:11, Psalms 32:4, Psalms 39:10
off your: 1 Samuel 5:3, 1 Samuel 5:4, 1 Samuel 5:7, Exodus 12:12, Numbers 33:4, Isaiah 19:1
Reciprocal: Genesis 32:20 - peradventure 1 Samuel 5:9 - and they had emerods 1 Samuel 6:4 - Five golden 1 Samuel 6:8 - jewels Isaiah 44:11 - all his Joel 2:14 - Who Revelation 14:7 - give

Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharoah hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?

harden: Job 9:4, Psalms 95:8, Romans 2:5, Hebrews 3:13
the Egyptians: Exodus 7:13, Exodus 8:15, Exodus 9:16, Exodus 9:34, Exodus 10:3, Exodus 14:17, Exodus 14:23, Exodus 15:14-16
wonderfully: or, reproachfully
did they not: Exodus 12:31-33
the people: Heb. them
Reciprocal: Exodus 11:10 - the Lord Job 15:25 - strengtheneth Daniel 5:20 - hardened Hebrews 3:8 - Harden

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:

new cart: 2 Samuel 6:3, 1 Chronicles 13:7
on which: Numbers 19:2
Reciprocal: Genesis 24:14 - thereby 1 Kings 18:44 - Prepare

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.

jewels: 1 Samuel 6:4, 1 Samuel 6:5

And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Beth-shemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that is not his hand that smote us; it was a chance that happened to us.

Bethshemesh: Joshua 15:10, Joshua 21:16
he: or, it, Amos 3:6
we shall: 1 Samuel 6:3
not his hand: Isaiah 26:11
a chance: 2 Samuel 1:6, Ecclesiastes 9:11, Luke 10:31
Reciprocal: Exodus 8:19 - This is Exodus 9:3 - the hand Joshua 19:22 - Bethshemesh 1 Samuel 25:38 - the Lord 2 Samuel 11:25 - for the sword 2 Kings 1:11 - Again 2 Kings 14:11 - Bethshemesh 2 Chronicles 25:21 - Bethshemesh 2 Chronicles 28:18 - Bethshemesh Job 5:6 - trouble Psalms 32:4 - hand Psalms 38:2 - thy hand Jeremiah 5:12 - have belied Ezekiel 39:21 - and my Mark 11:13 - haply

10.

And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 18:44 - Prepare

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.

they laid: 2 Samuel 6:3, 1 Chronicles 13:7, 1 Chronicles 15:13-15
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 5:9 - and they had emerods

12.

And the kine took the straight way to the way of Beth-shemesh, 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 Beth-shemesh.

Reciprocal: Joshua 15:10 - Bethshemesh Joshua 21:16 - Bethshemesh 1 Samuel 6:16 - the five 2 Samuel 20:13 - the highway 1 Kings 4:9 - Bethshemesh 1 Chronicles 6:59 - Bethshemesh

13.

And they of Beth-shemesh 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 Beth-shemite, 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.

offered: 1 Samuel 7:9-17, 1 Samuel 11:5, 1 Samuel 20:29, Exodus 20:24, Judges 6:26, Judges 21:4, 2 Samuel 24:18, 2 Samuel 24:22, 2 Samuel 24:25, 1 Kings 18:30-38
Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 21:23 - the oxen

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 Beth-shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto the LORD.

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 7:9 - a sucking

16.

And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.

the five: 1 Samuel 6:4, 1 Samuel 6:12, Joshua 13:3, Judges 3:3, Judges 16:5, Judges 16:23-30
they returned: 1 Samuel 5:10
Reciprocal: Judges 4:5 - between 1 Samuel 6:18 - the five lords

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;

these: 1 Samuel 6:4
Ashdod: 1 Samuel 5:1, 2 Chronicles 26:6, Jeremiah 25:20, Zechariah 9:6
Gaza: Judges 16:1, Judges 16:21, Amos 1:7, Amos 1:8
Askelon: Judges 1:18, Zechariah 9:5
Gath: 1 Samuel 5:8, 2 Samuel 1:20, 2 Samuel 21:22, Amos 6:2
Ekron: 1 Samuel 5:10, 2 Kings 1:2, Amos 1:8
Reciprocal: Joshua 10:41 - Gaza Joshua 13:3 - five Lords Joshua 15:45 - Ekron Judges 4:5 - between Isaiah 14:29 - whole Isaiah 20:1 - Ashdod Amos 1:6 - Gaza

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 Beth-shemite.

the five lords: 1 Samuel 6:16, Joshua 13:3
great stone of: or, great stone
Reciprocal: Genesis 50:11 - Abelmizraim Judges 3:3 - five lords 1 Samuel 6:4 - Five golden Isaiah 14:29 - whole

19.

And he smote the men of Beth-shemesh, 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.

he smote: Exodus 19:21, Leviticus 10:1-3, Numbers 4:4, Numbers 4:5, Numbers 4:15, Numbers 4:20, Deuteronomy 29:29, 2 Samuel 6:7, 1 Chronicles 13:9, 1 Chronicles 13:10, Colossians 2:18, 1 Peter 4:17
fifty thousand: As it is very improbable that the village of Beth-shemesh should contain, or be capable of employing, 50,070 men in the fields at wheat harvest, much less that they could all peep into the ark, and from the uncommon manner in which it is expressed in the original, it is generally allowed that there is some corruption in the text, or that some explanatory word is omitted. The Hebrew is shivim ish, chamishim aileph ish, literally, "seventy men, fifty thousand men." So LXX וגהןלחךןםפב בםהסבע ךבי נוםפחךןםפב קיכיבהבע בםהסשם. Vulgate, septuaginta viros, et quinquaginta millia plebis. "70 (chief) men, and 50,000 common people." Targum, besabey amma, "of the elders of the people 70 men, ovekahala, and in the congregation 50,000 men." But the Syriac, chamsho alphin weshivin gavrin, "5,000 and 70 men;" with which the Arabic agrees; while Josephus has only וגהןלחךןםפב, seventy men; and three reputable manuscripts of Dr. Kennicott's also omit "50,000 men." Some learned men, however, would render, by supplying מ, mem, "70 men; fifty out of a thousand;" which supposes about 1,400 present, and that a twentieth part were slain.
Reciprocal: Exodus 30:20 - die not Leviticus 10:2 - they died Numbers 1:51 - the stranger Numbers 1:53 - there be Numbers 3:10 - and the stranger Numbers 4:18 - General Numbers 8:19 - that there Numbers 17:13 - any thing Numbers 18:4 - a stranger 2 Samuel 24:15 - the Lord 1 Chronicles 21:14 - seventy 2 Chronicles 25:21 - Bethshemesh Psalms 9:16 - known Luke 19:21 - because Acts 5:5 - great

20.

And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy LORD God? and to whom shall he go up from us?

1 Samuel 5:8-12, Numbers 17:12, Numbers 17:13, 2 Samuel 6:7, 2 Samuel 6:9, 1 Chronicles 13:11-13, Psalms 76:7, Malachi 3:2, Luke 5:8, Luke 8:37
Reciprocal: Leviticus 10:3 - I will be Leviticus 11:44 - ye shall Joshua 24:19 - holy 1 Samuel 5:7 - The ark 1 Kings 4:9 - Bethshemesh 1 Chronicles 13:12 - afraid of God 2 Chronicles 25:21 - Bethshemesh Psalms 9:16 - known Psalms 119:120 - My flesh Zechariah 3:1 - standing Mark 5:15 - and they Acts 19:17 - and fear

21.

And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjath-jearim, saying, The Philistines have brought again the ark of the LORD; come ye down, and fetch it up to you.

Kirjathjearim: Joshua 18:14, Judges 18:12, 1 Chronicles 13:5, 1 Chronicles 13:6, Psalms 78:60, Jeremiah 7:12, Jeremiah 7:14
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 7:1 - Kirjathjearim Psalms 78:67 - General Ezekiel 25:15 - to destroy Mark 5:15 - and they