Chapter 6


 And the ark of the Lord was in the country of the Philistines seven months.

 And the Philistines called for the priests and the adiviners, saying, What shall we do to the ark of the Lord? tell us wherewith we shall send it to his place.

 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 atrespass offering: then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you.


 Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give aglory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.

 Wherefore then do ye aharden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh bhardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?

 Now therefore make a new cart, and take two amilch kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them:

 And 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 acoffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.



 11 And they laid the ark of the Lord upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their aemerods.



 14 And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Beth-shemite, and stood there, where there was a great stone: and they aclave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the Lord.

 15 And 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.


 17 And 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;

 18 And the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of afenced 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.

 19 ¶And he asmote the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had blooked 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.

 20 And 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?

 21 ¶And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjath-jearim, saying, The Philistines have brought again the aark of the Lord; come ye down, and fetch it up to you.