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1
Now the ark
of the LORD
had been
in the country
of the Philistines
seven
months.
2
And the Philistines
called
for the priests
and the diviners,
saying,
"What
shall we do
with the ark
of the LORD?
Tell
us how
we shall send
it to its place."
3
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."
4
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
according to the number
of the lords
of the Philistines,
for one
plague
was on all
of you and on your lords.
5
"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.
6
"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?
7
"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.
8
"Take
the ark
of the LORD
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.
9
"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."
10
Then the men
did
so,
and took
two
milch
cows
and hitched
them to the cart,
and shut
up their calves
at home.
11
They put
the ark
of the LORD
on the cart,
and the box
with the golden
mice
and the likenesses
of their tumors.
12
And the cows
took the straight
way
in the direction
of Beth-shemesh;
they went
along the high
way
,
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.
13
Now the people of Beth-shemesh
were reaping
their wheat
harvest
in the valley,
and they raised
their eyes
and saw
the ark
and were glad
to see
it.
14
The cart
came
into the field
of Joshua
the Beth-shemite
and stood
there
where
there
was a large
stone;
and they split
the wood
of the cart
and offered
the cows
as a burnt offering
to the LORD.
15
The Levites
took down
the ark
of the LORD
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 LORD.
16
When the five
lords
of the Philistines
saw
it, they returned
to Ekron
that day.
17
These
are the golden
tumors
which
the Philistines
returned
for a guilt offering
to the LORD:
one
for Ashdod,
one
for Gaza,
one
for Ashkelon,
one
for Gath,
one
for Ekron;
18
and the golden
mice,
according 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 LORD
is a witness to this
day
in the field
of Joshua
the Beth-shemite.
19
He struck
down
some of the men
of Beth-shemesh
because
they had looked
into the ark
of
the LORD
.
He struck
down
of all
the people
,
50,070
men,
and
the people
mourned
because
the LORD
had struck
the people
with a great
slaughter.
20
The men
of Beth-shemesh
said,
"Who
is able
to stand
before
the LORD,
this
holy
God?
And to whom
shall He go
up from us?"
21
So they sent
messengers
to the inhabitants
of Kiriath-jearim,
saying,
"The Philistines
have brought back
the ark
of the LORD;
come down
and take
it up to you."
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