1 Samuel · Updated Brenton English Septuagint
1 Samuel 6 Updated Brenton English Septuagint
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- Same Septuagint text as Brenton, with modernised spelling.
1 And the ark was seven months in the country of the Philistines, and their land brought forth swarms of mice.
1 Yahweh’s ark was in the country of the Philistines seven months.
2 And the Philistines call their priests, and their prophets, and their enchanters, saying, What shall we do to the ark of the Lord? teach us wherewith we shall send it away to its place.
2 The Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, “What shall we do with Yahweh’s ark? Show us how we should send it to its place.”
3 And they said, If ye send away the ark of the covenant of the Lord God of Israel, do not on any account send it away empty, but by all means render to it an offering for the plague; and then shall ye be healed, and an atonement shall be made for you: should not his hand be [thus] stayed from off you?
3 They said, “If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, don’t send it empty; but by all means return a trespass offering to him. Then you will be healed, and it will be known to you why his hand is not removed from you.”
4 And they say, What [is] the offering for the plague [which] we shall return to it? and they said,
4 Then they said, “What should the trespass offering be which we shall return to him?” They said, “Five golden tumors and five golden mice, for the number of the lords of the Philistines; for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.
5 According to the number of the lords of the Philistines, five golden emerods, for the plague was on you, and on your rulers, and on the people; and golden mice, the likeness of the mice that destroy your land: and ye shall give glory to the Lord, that he may lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
5 Therefore you shall make images of your tumors and images of your mice that mar the land; and you shall give glory to the God of Israel. Perhaps he will release his hand from you, from your gods, and from your land.
6 And why do ye harden your hearts, as Egypt and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? [was it] not [so] when he mocked them, [that] they let the people go, and they departed?
6 Why then do you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When he had worked wonderfully among them, didn’t they let the people go, and they departed?
7 And now take wood and make a new wagon, and take two cows, that have calved for the first time, without their calves; and do ye yoke the cows to the wagon, and lead away the calves from behind them home.
7 “Now therefore take and prepare yourselves a new cart and two milk cows on which there has come no yoke; and tie the cows to the cart, and bring their calves home from them;
8 And ye shall take the ark and put it on the wagon; and ye shall restore to it the golden articles for the trespass offering in a coffer by the side of it: and ye shall let it go, and send it away, and ye shall depart.
8 and take Yahweh’s ark and lay it on the cart. Put the jewels of gold, which you return him for a trespass offering, in a box by its side; and send it away, that it may go.
9 And ye shall see, if it shall go the way of its coasts along by Beth-shemesh, he has brought upon us this great affliction; and if not, then shall we know that his hand has not touched us, but this [is a] chance [which] has happened to us.
9 Behold, if it goes up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has done us this great evil; but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us. It was a chance that happened to us.”
10 And the Philistines did so; and they took two cows that had calved for the first time, and yoked them to the wagon, and shut up their calves at home.
10 The men did so, and took two milk cows and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.
11 And they set the ark of the Lord, and the coffer, and the golden mice, on the wagon.
11 They put Yahweh’s ark on the cart, and the box with the golden mice and the images of their tumors.
12 And the cows went straight on the way to the way of Beth-shemesh, they went along one track; and labored, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left, and the lords of the Philistines went after it as far as the coasts of Beth-shemesh.
12 The cows took the straight way by the way to Beth Shemesh. They went along the highway, lowing as they went, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them to the border of Beth Shemesh.
13 And the men of Beth-shemesh were reaping the wheat harvest in the valley; and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark of the Lord, and rejoiced to meet it.
13 The people 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.
14 And the wagon entered into the field of Joshua, which was in Beth-shemesh, and they set there by it a great stone; and they split the wood of the wagon, and offered up the cows for a whole burnt offering to the Lord.
14 The cart came into the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh, and stood there, where there was a great stone. Then they split the wood of the cart and offered up the cows for a burnt offering to Yahweh.
15 And the Levites brought up the ark of the Lord, and the coffer with it, and the golden articles upon it, and placed them on the great stone, and the men of Beth-shemesh offered whole burnt offerings and meat offerings on that day to the Lord.
15 The Levites took down Yahweh’s ark and the box that was with it, in which 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 to Yahweh.
16 And the five lords of the Philistines saw, and returned to Ashkelon in that day.
16 When the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.
17 And these [are] the golden emerods which the lords of the Philistines gave as a trespass offering to the Lord; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one.
17 These are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering to Yahweh: for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ashkelon 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, from the fenced city to the village of the Perizzite, and to the great stone, on which they placed the ark of the covenant of the Lord, that was in the field of Joshua the Beth-shemeshite.
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, even to the great stone on which they set down Yahweh’s ark. That stone remains to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh.
19 And the sons of Jechonias were not pleased with the men of Beth-shemesh, because they saw the ark of the Lord; and [the Lord] smote among them seventy men, and fifty thousand men: and the people mourned, because the Lord had inflicted on the people a very great plague.
19 He struck of the men of Beth Shemesh, because they had looked into Yahweh’s ark, he struck fifty thousand seventy of the men. Then the people mourned, because Yahweh had struck the people with a great slaughter.
20 And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who shall be able to pass before this holy Lord God? and to whom shall the ark of the Lord go up from us?
20 The men of Beth Shemesh said, “Who is able to stand before Yahweh, this holy God? To whom shall he go up from us?”
21 And they send messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath-jearim, saying, The Philistines have brought back the ark of the Lord, go down and take it home to yourselves.
21 They sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath Jearim, saying, “The Philistines have brought back Yahweh’s ark. Come down and bring it up to yourselves.”
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The cart bearing the ark from the Philistines came to his field at Beth-shemesh and stopped by a large rock, where the people offered burnt offerings and sacrifices.
Cited in the guide: 1 Samuel 6:14; 1 Samuel 6:18
Cross references (19)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 78:61; 1 Samuel 5:10–11; 1 Samuel 5:3; 1 Samuel 5:1
- 2 Exodus 7:11; Genesis 41:8; Daniel 5:7; Daniel 2:2; Isaiah 47:12–13
- 3 Exodus 23:15; Deuteronomy 16:16; 1 Samuel 6:9; Exodus 34:20; 1 Samuel 5:7
- 4 Joshua 13:3; 1 Samuel 6:17–18; Judges 3:3; 1 Samuel 5:6; 1 Samuel 5:9
- 5 Joshua 7:19; 1 Samuel 5:6–7; 1 Samuel 5:11; 1 Samuel 5:3–4; Isaiah 42:12
- 6 Exodus 7:13; Exodus 8:15; Exodus 14:17; Exodus 9:34; Exodus 14:23
- 7 Numbers 19:2; 2 Samuel 6:3; 1 Chronicles 13:7
- 8 1 Samuel 6:3–5
- 9 Joshua 21:16; Luke 10:31; Joshua 15:10; Ecclesiastes 9:11; 1 Samuel 6:3
- 11 1 Chronicles 15:13–15; 1 Chronicles 13:7; 2 Samuel 6:3
- 12 Numbers 20:19
- 14 2 Samuel 24:22; Judges 21:4; 1 Samuel 20:29; 1 Samuel 11:5; 1 Samuel 7:9–17
- 15 Joshua 3:3
- 16 Judges 3:3; Joshua 13:3; 1 Samuel 6:4; Judges 16:5; Judges 16:23–30
- 17 2 Samuel 1:20; Judges 16:21; 2 Chronicles 26:6; Zechariah 9:5–6; 2 Kings 1:2
- 18 1 Samuel 6:14–16; Deuteronomy 3:5; Joshua 13:3
- 19 Numbers 4:20; Exodus 19:21; 2 Samuel 6:7; Numbers 4:15; Colossians 2:18
- 20 Malachi 3:2; 2 Samuel 6:9; Revelation 6:17; Leviticus 11:45; 2 Samuel 6:7
- 21 1 Chronicles 13:5–6; Joshua 9:17; Joshua 18:14; Joshua 15:9; Joshua 15:60
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