Verse 2
1 Samuel 6:2
Free Bible Version
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the Philistines summoned the priests and fortune-tellers, and asked, “What should we do with the Ark of the Lord? Explain to us how to send it back to where it came from.”
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּקְרְא֣וּ פְלִשְׁתִּ֗ים לַ/כֹּהֲנִ֤ים וְ/לַ/קֹּֽסְמִים֙ לֵ/אמֹ֔ר מַֽה נַּעֲשֶׂ֖ה לַ/אֲר֣וֹן יְהוָ֑ה הוֹדִעֻ֕/נוּ בַּ/מֶּ֖ה נְשַׁלְּחֶ֥/נּוּ לִ/מְקוֹמֽ/וֹ
English Translation
And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, "What shall we do with the Ark of the LORD? Inform us how we should send it to its place."
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Chapter 6 Context
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After the Ark of the Lord had been in the country of the Philistines for seven months,
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the Philistines summoned the priests and fortune-tellers, and asked, “What should we do with the Ark...
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“If you're going to send back the Ark of the God (Elohim) of Israel, do not send it back empty-hande...
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“What kind of guilt offering should we send back to him?” asked the Philistines. “Five gold objects...
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Make models to represent your swellings and the rats destroying the country, and honor the God (Eloh...
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Why be stubborn like the Egyptians and Pharaoh? When he punished them, didn't they send the Israelit...
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So get a new cart ready, pulled by two milk cows that have never been yoked. Tie the cows to the car...
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Pick up the Ark of the Lord, put it on the cart, and place the gold objects you are sending him as a...
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but keep watching it. If it goes up the road to its home country, to Beth-shemesh, then it is the Lo...
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So that's what the people did. They took two milk cows and tied them to the cart, and kept their cal...
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They put the Ark of the Lord on the cart, together with the chest containing the gold rats and model...
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The cows went straight up the road to Beth-shemesh, lowing as they went, going directly on the main...
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The people of Beth-shemesh were reaping wheat in the valley. When they looked up and saw the Ark, th...
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The cart came into the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh, and stopped there beside a large rock. The p...
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The Levites took down the Ark of the Lord and the chest containing the gold objects, and put them on...
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The five gold models of swellings sent by the Philistines as a guilt offering to the Lord were from...
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The gold rats represented the number of Philistine towns of the five rulers—the fortified towns and...
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But God (Elohim) killed some of the people of Beth-shemesh because they looked inside the Ark of the...
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The people of Beth-shemesh asked, “Who can stand before the Lord, this holy God (Elohim)? Where shou...
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They sent messengers to the people of Kiriath-jearim to say, “The Philistines have returned the Ark...
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