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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>1 Samuel 6 NET Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/1_samuel/6.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/1_samuel/6-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NET Bible</a> > 1 Samuel 6</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_samuel/5.htm" title="1 Samuel 5">◄</a> 1 Samuel 6 <a href="../1_samuel/7.htm" title="1 Samuel 7">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">NET Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/net/esv/1_samuel/6.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="title">The Philistines Return the Ark</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>When the ark of the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> had been in the land of the Philistines for seven months, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>the Philistines called the priests and the omen readers, saying, “What should we do with the ark of the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>? Advise us as to how we should send it back to its place.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>They replied, “If you are going to send the ark of the God of Israel back, don’t send it away empty. Be sure to return it with a guilt offering. Then you will be healed, and you will understand why his hand is not removed from you.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>They inquired, “What is the guilt offering that we should send to him?”</p><p class="bodytext">They replied, “The Philistine leaders number five. So send five gold sores and five gold mice, for it is the same plague that has afflicted both you and your leaders. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>You should make images of the sores and images of the mice that are destroying the land. You should honor the God of Israel. Perhaps he will release his grip on you, your gods, and your land. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Why harden your hearts like the Egyptians and Pharaoh did? When God treated them harshly, didn’t the Egyptians send the Israelites on their way? <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>So now go and make a new cart. Get two cows that have calves and that have never had a yoke placed on them. Harness the cows to the cart and take their calves from them back to their stalls. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then take the ark of the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> and place it on the cart, and put in a chest beside it the gold objects you are sending to him as a guilt offering. You should then send it on its way. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>But keep an eye on it. If it should go up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has brought this great calamity on us. But if that is not the case, then we will know that it was not his hand that struck us; rather, it just happened to us by accident.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So the men did as instructed. They took two cows that had calves and harnessed them to a cart; they also removed their calves to their stalls. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>They put the ark of the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> on the cart, along with the chest, the gold mice, and the images of the sores. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then the cows went directly on the road to Beth Shemesh. They went along, mooing as they went; they turned neither to the right nor to the left. The leaders of the Philistines were walking along behind them all the way to the border of Beth Shemesh.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Now the residents of Beth Shemesh were harvesting wheat in the valley. When they looked up and saw the ark, they were pleased at the sight. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The cart was coming to the field of Joshua, who was from Beth Shemesh. It paused there near a big stone. Then they cut up the wood of the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The Levites took down the ark of the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> and the chest that was with it, which contained the gold objects. They placed them near the big stone. At that time the people of Beth Shemesh offered burnt offerings and made sacrifices to the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The five leaders of the Philistines watched what was happening and then returned to Ekron on the same day.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>These are the gold sores that the Philistines brought as a guilt offering to the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> – one for each of the following cities: Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>The gold mice corresponded in number to all the Philistine cities of the five leaders, from the fortified cities to hamlet villages, to greater Abel, where they positioned the ark of the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> until this very day in the field of Joshua who was from Beth Shemesh.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>But the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> struck down some of the people of Beth Shemesh because they had looked into the ark of the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>; he struck down 50,070 of the men. The people grieved because the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> had struck the people with a hard blow. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The residents of Beth Shemesh asked, “Who is able to stand before the <span class="smallcaps">Lord,</span> this holy God? To whom will the ark go up from here?”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>So they sent messengers to the residents of Kiriath Jearim, saying, “The Philistines have returned the ark of the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>. Come down here and take it back home with you.”</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="http://netbible.com/">NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com.<br />Used by permission. 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