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them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark
of the God of Israel be carried about unto Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel about
thither.
9
And it was
so,
that, after they had carried it about, the hand of the L
ORD
was against the
city with a very great destruction: and he smote the men of the city, both small and great, and they
had emerods in their secret parts.
10
Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to
Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel
to us, to slay us and our people.
11
So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines,
and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to his own place, that it slay
us not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God
was very heavy there.
12
And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods: and the cry of
the city went up to heaven.
CHAPTER SAMUEL 6
And the ark of the L
ORD
was in the country of the Philistines seven months.
2
And the Philistines
called for the priests and the diviners, saying, What shall we do to the ark of the L
ORD
? tell us
wherewith we shall send it to his place.
3
And 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.
4
Then 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.
5
Wherefore 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.
6
Wherefore 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?
7
Now 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:
8
And take the ark of the L
ORD
, 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.
9
And 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.
10
And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their
calves at home:
11
And they laid the ark of the L
ORD
upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of
gold and the images of their emerods.
12
And 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.
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