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The Philistines asked, "What should we do with the ark of the LORD? Tell us how to return it to its [proper] place." <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>The priests answered, "If you're returning the ark of the God of Israel, don't send it away empty, but by all means return it to its [proper] place with a guilt offering. Then you will be healed, and you will know why he would not turn his anger away from you." <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The Philistines asked, "What kind of guilt offering should we give him?" The priests answered, "Five gold tumors and five gold mice for the [five] Philistine rulers because all of you and your rulers suffer from the same plague. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Make models of your tumors and your mice which are destroying the country, and give glory to the God of Israel. Maybe he will no longer be so hard on you, your gods, and your country. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Why should you be as stubborn as the Egyptians and their Pharaoh were? After he toyed with the Egyptians, didn't they send the Israelites on their way? <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Now get a new cart ready for two dairy cows that have never been yoked. Hitch the cows to the cart. Take their calves away, and leave them in their stall. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Take the ark of the LORD, and put it on the cart. Put the gold objects which you're giving him as a guilt offering in a box beside the ark. Send the cart on its way, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>but then watch where it goes. If it goes up the road to its own country toward Beth Shemesh, then this disaster is the LORD's doing. But if not, we'll know it wasn't his hand that struck us, but what happened to us was an accident."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The people did this. They took two dairy cows, hitched them to a cart, and shut the calves in the stall. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>They put the ark of the LORD and the box containing the gold mice and the models of their hemorrhoids on the cart. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The cows went straight up the road to Beth Shemesh. Continually mooing, they stayed on the road and didn't turn right or left. The rulers of the Philistines followed them to the border of Beth Shemesh.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The people of Beth Shemesh were harvesting wheat in the valley. When they looked up and saw the ark, they were overjoyed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The cart came into the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh and stopped there by a large rock. The people chopped up the wood of the cart and sacrificed the cows as a burnt offering to the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>(The Levites had already taken down [from the cart] the ark of the LORD and the box which contained the gold objects and put them on the large rock.) The people of Beth Shemesh presented burnt offerings and sacrifices to the LORD that day. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>After the five rulers of the Philistines saw this, they went back to Ekron that same day.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The gold hemorrhoids which the Philistines sent as a guilt offering to the LORD were for the cities of Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And the number of gold mice was the same as the number of Philistine cities belonging to the five rulers, including walled cities and farm villages. The large rock on which they put the ark of the LORD is a witness. It is still there today in the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>God struck down some of the people from Beth Shemesh because they looked inside the ark of the LORD. He struck down 70 people. The people mourned because the LORD struck them with such a great blow. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The people of Beth Shemesh asked, "Who can stand before the LORD, this holy God? And to which people will he go when he leaves us?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/6-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>They sent messengers to the people living at Kiriath Jearim to say, "The Philistines have brought back the ark of the LORD. Come and take it back with you."</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">GOD'S WORD® is a copyrighted work of <a href="//www.godsword.org" target="_top">God's Word to the Nations</a>. 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