1 Samuel 6

¹And the ark of the Lord was in the country of the Philistines seven months. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 78:611 Sam 5:11 Sam 5:10-111 Sam 5:3

²And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, What shall we do to the ark of the Lord? tell us wherewith we shall send it to his place. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Exod 7:11Gen 41:8Dan 2:2Dan 5:7Isa 2:6Isa 47:12-13Matt 2:4Mic 6:6-9

³And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass offering: then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 6:9Deut 16:16Exod 23:15Exod 34:201 Sam 5:111 Sam 5:71 Sam 5:9Job 10:2Job 34:31-32Lev 5:15-19

⁴Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines: for one plague was on you all, and on your lords. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 6:17-18Josh 13:3Judg 3:31 Sam 5:61 Sam 5:91 Sam 5:121 Sam 6:5Exod 12:35

⁵Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 7:191 Sam 5:111 Sam 5:6-71 Sam 5:3-4Isa 42:12John 9:241 Sam 5:9Jer 13:16Joel 1:4-7Ps 32:4

⁶Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Exod 14:17Exod 7:13Exod 8:15Exod 9:34Exod 10:3Exod 12:31-33Exod 14:23Exod 15:14-16Exod 8:32Exod 9:16

⁷Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 6:3Num 19:21 Chr 13:7

⁸And take the ark of the Lord, and lay it upon the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which ye return him for a trespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 6:3-5

⁹And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Beth–shemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us; it was a chance that happened to us. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 6:32 Sam 1:6Eccl 9:11Josh 15:10Josh 21:16Luke 10:31Amos 3:6Isa 26:11

¹⁰And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

¹¹And they laid the ark of the Lord upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Chr 15:13-151 Chr 13:72 Sam 6:3

¹²And the kine took the straight way to the way of Beth–shemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Beth–shemesh. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Num 20:19

¹³And they of Beth–shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

¹⁴And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Beth–shemite, and stood there, where there was a great stone: and they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the Lord. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 24:22Judg 21:41 Kgs 18:30-381 Kgs 19:211 Sam 11:51 Sam 20:291 Sam 7:9-172 Sam 24:182 Sam 24:25Exod 20:24

¹⁵And the Levites took down the ark of the Lord, and the coffer that was with it, wherein the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Beth–shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto the Lord. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 3:3

¹⁶And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 6:4Josh 13:3Judg 3:31 Sam 5:101 Sam 6:12Judg 16:23-30Judg 16:5

¹⁷And these are the golden emerods which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering unto the Lord; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one; Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 1:201 Sam 5:11 Sam 5:101 Sam 5:81 Sam 6:42 Chr 26:62 Kgs 1:22 Sam 21:22Amos 1:7-8Amos 6:2

¹⁸And the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fenced cities, and of country villages, even unto the great stone of Abel, whereon they set down the ark of the Lord: which stone remaineth unto this day in the field of Joshua, the Beth–shemite. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 6:14-16Deut 3:5Josh 13:3

¹⁹And he smote the men of Beth–shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the Lord, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the Lord had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Num 4:20Exod 19:212 Sam 6:7Num 4:15Col 2:181 Chr 13:9-101 Pet 4:17Deut 29:29Lev 10:1-3Num 4:4-5

²⁰And the men of Beth–shemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy Lord God? and to whom shall he go up from us? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 6:9Mal 3:2Rev 6:171 Chr 13:11-131 Sam 5:8-122 Sam 6:7Lev 11:45Luke 5:8Luke 8:37Num 17:12-13

²¹And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjath–jearim, saying, The Philistines have brought again the ark of the Lord; come ye down, and fetch it up to you. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Chr 13:5-6Josh 18:14Josh 9:17Jer 7:12Jer 7:14Josh 15:60Josh 15:9Judg 18:12Ps 78:60