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Tell us how we shall send it to its place. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/6-3.htm" target="_top"><b>3</b></a></span>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 removed from you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/6-4.htm" target="_top"><b>4</b></a></span>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 <i>according to</i> the number of the lords of the Philistines, for one plague was on all of you and on your lords. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/6-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>So you shall make likenesses of your tumors and likenesses of your mice that ravage the land, and you shall give glory to the God of Israel; perhaps He will ease His hand from you, your gods, and your land. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/6-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>Why then do you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When He had severely dealt with them, did they not allow the people to go, and they departed? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/6-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>Now therefore, take and prepare 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/6-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>Take the ark of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/6-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>Watch, 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 struck us; it happened to us by chance.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/6-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>Then the men did so, and took two milch cows and hitched them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/6-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>They put the ark of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> on the cart, and the box with the golden mice and the likenesses of their tumors. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/6-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>And the cows took the straight way in the 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 followed them to the border of Beth-shemesh.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/6-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>Now <i>the people of</i> Beth-shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley, and they raised their eyes and saw the ark and were glad to see <i>it.</i> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/6-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>The cart came into the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite and stood there where there <i>was</i> a large stone; and they split the wood of the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/6-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>The Levites took down the ark of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> 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 the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/6-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>When the five lords of the Philistines saw it, they returned to Ekron that day.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/6-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>These are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned for a guilt offering to the L<font size="1">ORD</font>: one for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ashkelon, one for Gath, one for Ekron; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/6-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>and the golden mice, <i>according</i> 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 stone on which they set the ark of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> <i>is a witness</i> to this day in the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/6-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>He struck down some of the men of Beth-shemesh because they had looked into the ark of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. He struck down of all the people, 50,070 men, and the people mourned because the L<font size="1">ORD</font> had struck the people with a great slaughter. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/6-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>The men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand before the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, this holy God? And to whom shall He go up from us? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/6-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>So they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath-jearim, saying, The Philistines have brought back the ark of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>; come down and take it up to you.<p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">NASB 1995 Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. 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