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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 Literal Standard Version</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" /></head><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="../">LSV</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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">Literal Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/1_samuel/6-1.htm#aramaic" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And the Ark of YHWH is in the field of the Philistines [for] seven months, <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>and the Philistines call for priests and for diviners, saying, “What do we do to the Ark of YHWH? Let us know with what we send it to its place.” <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And they say, “If you are sending the Ark of the God of Israel away, you do not send it away empty; for you certainly send back a guilt-offering to Him; then you are healed, and it has been known to you why His hand does not turn aside from you.” <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And they say, “What [is] the guilt-offering which we send back to Him?” And they say, “The number of the princes of the Philistines—five golden lumps, and five golden muroids—for one plague [is] to you all, and to your princes, <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>and you have made images of your lumps, and images of your muroids that are corrupting the land, and have given glory to the God of Israel; it may be [that] He lightens His hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land; <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>and why do you harden your heart as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their heart? Do they not—when He has rolled Himself on them—send them away, and they go? <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And now, take and make one new cart, and two suckling cows, on which a yoke has not gone up, and you have bound the cows in the cart, and caused their young ones to turn back from after them to the house, <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>and you have taken the Ark of YHWH, and put it on the cart, and the vessels of gold which you have returned to Him—a guilt-offering—you put in a coffer on its side, and have sent it away, and it has gone; <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>and you have seen if it goes up the way of its own border, to Beth-Shemesh—He has done this great evil to us; and if not, then we have known that His hand has not come against us; it has been an accident to us.”<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And the men do so, and take two suckling cows, and bind them in the cart, and they shut up their young ones in the house; <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and they place the Ark of YHWH on the cart, and the coffer, and the golden muroids, and the images of their lumps. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And the cows go straight in the way, on the way to Beth-Shemesh, they have gone in one highway, going and lowing, and have not turned aside right or left; and the princes of the Philistines are going after them to the border of Beth-Shemesh.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And the Beth-Shemeshites are reaping their wheat-harvest in the valley, and they lift up their eyes, and see the Ark, and rejoice to see [it]. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And the cart has come into the field of Joshua the Beth-Shemeshite, and stands there, and there [is] a great stone, and they cleave the wood of the cart, and they have caused the cows to ascend [as] a burnt-offering to YHWH. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And the Levites have taken down the Ark of YHWH, and the coffer which [is] with it, in which [are] the vessels of gold, and place [them] on the great stone; and the men of Beth-Shemesh have caused burnt-offerings to ascend and sacrifice sacrifices in that day to YHWH; <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>and the five princes of the Philistines have seen [it], and return [to] Ekron, on that day.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And these [are] the golden lumps which the Philistines have sent back—a guilt-offering to YHWH: one for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ashkelon, one for Gath, one for Ekron; <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>and the golden muroids—the number of all the cities of the Philistines, for the five princes, from the fortified city even to a village of the open place, and to the great stone [[or great meadow]] on which they placed the Ark of YHWH—[are] in the field of Joshua the Beth-Shemeshite to this day.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And He strikes among the men of Beth-Shemesh, for they looked into the Ark of YHWH, indeed, He strikes seventy men [out] of fifty thousand men [[or fifty thousand and seventy men]] among the people; and the people mourn, because YHWH struck among the people [with] a great striking. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And the men of Beth-Shemesh say, “Who is able to stand before YHWH, this holy God? And to whom does He go up from us?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And they send messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjath-Jearim, saying, “The Philistines have sent back the Ark of YHWH; come down, take it up with you.” <p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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