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I Samuel Chapter 6

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First Samuel 6 records the Philistines' return of the ark after seven months, following the advice of their priests and diviners to send it back with a trespass offering of five golden emerods and five golden mice on a new cart drawn by milk cows that had never been yoked. The cows head straight toward Bethshemesh, confirming that the calamity was from the Lord, but the men of Bethshemesh are struck down for looking into the ark. Survivors then send messengers to Kirjathjearim asking them to come and fetch the ark.

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(1) And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines seven months.
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I Samuel 5:1I Samuel 5:3I Samuel 5:10I Samuel 5:11Psalms 78:61

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I Samuel 5:8Exodus 40:20I Samuel 5:10I Samuel 6:18I Samuel 27:7Jeremiah 47:4

(2) And 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.
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Genesis 41:8Exodus 7:11Isaiah 47:12Isaiah 47:13Daniel 2:2Daniel 5:7Matthew 2:4Micah 6:6Micah 6:7Micah 6:8Micah 6:9

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I Samuel 5:8Exodus 40:20I Samuel 5:10I Samuel 5:11I Samuel 6:3I Samuel 7:7

(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.
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Exodus 23:15Exodus 34:20Deuteronomy 16:16Leviticus 5:6Leviticus 5:15Leviticus 5:16Leviticus 5:17Leviticus 5:18Leviticus 5:19Leviticus 6:6Leviticus 7:1Leviticus 7:2

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I Samuel 6:8Song of Solomon 6:13Genesis 38:17Exodus 4:13Numbers 13:2Psalms 57:3

(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.
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I Samuel 6:5I Samuel 6:17I Samuel 6:18I Samuel 5:6I Samuel 5:9Exodus 12:35Joshua 13:3Judges 3:3

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I Samuel 6:18Ezekiel 48:16Matthew 25:20Genesis 18:28Numbers 7:17Numbers 7:23

(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.
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Exodus 8:5Exodus 8:17Exodus 8:24Exodus 10:14Exodus 10:15Joel 1:4Joel 1:5Joel 1:6Joel 1:7Joel 2:25Joshua 7:19Psalms 18:44

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II Chronicles 34:4Judges 10:6Isaiah 42:17Deuteronomy 7:5I Samuel 6:11II Chronicles 34:3

(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?
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Job 9:4Psalms 95:8Romans 2:5Hebrews 3:13Exodus 7:13Exodus 8:15Exodus 9:16Exodus 9:34Exodus 10:3Exodus 14:17Exodus 14:23Exodus 15:14

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Exodus 14:17I Samuel 7:3Genesis 41:55Genesis 43:32Exodus 14:4Exodus 18:10

(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:
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II Samuel 6:3I Chronicles 13:7Numbers 19:2

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I Samuel 6:10I Samuel 6:14Genesis 41:3Genesis 41:4Genesis 41:20II Samuel 6:3

(8) 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 coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.
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I Samuel 6:4I Samuel 6:5

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I Samuel 6:3Song of Solomon 6:13Jeremiah 15:19Jeremiah 44:14Ezekiel 16:55Malachi 3:7

(9) And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, 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.
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Joshua 15:10Joshua 21:16Amos 3:6Isaiah 26:11II Samuel 1:6Ecclesiastes 9:11Luke 10:31

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(10) And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:
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I Samuel 6:7I Samuel 6:14

(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 emerods.
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II Samuel 6:3I Chronicles 13:7I Chronicles 15:13I Chronicles 15:14I Chronicles 15:15

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I Samuel 6:5Exodus 40:20I Samuel 5:8I Samuel 5:10I Samuel 6:8II Samuel 6:3

(12) And the kine took the straight way to the way of Bethshemesh, 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 Bethshemesh.
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Joshua 15:10Joshua 15:11Judges 16:18I Samuel 7:7Judges 1:33Ruth 4:1

(13) And they of Bethshemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.
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Exodus 40:20Joshua 3:15I Samuel 5:8I Samuel 5:10Ruth 2:23Matthew 13:30

(14) And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Bethshemite, 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.
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I Samuel 7:9I Samuel 7:10I Samuel 7:11I Samuel 7:12I Samuel 7:13I Samuel 7:14I Samuel 7:15I Samuel 7:16I Samuel 7:17I Samuel 11:5I Samuel 20:29Exodus 20:24

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I Samuel 6:7I Samuel 6:18II Samuel 6:3I Chronicles 13:7Genesis 23:17Exodus 9:25

(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 Bethshemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto the LORD.
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I Kings 8:64I Chronicles 29:21I Kings 3:15II Chronicles 7:7Numbers 29:39II Chronicles 29:31

(16) And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.
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I Samuel 6:4I Samuel 6:12Joshua 13:3Judges 3:3Judges 16:5Judges 16:23Judges 16:24Judges 16:25Judges 16:26Judges 16:27Judges 16:28Judges 16:29

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I Samuel 6:4Joshua 13:3Ezekiel 48:16Matthew 25:20Judges 16:18I Samuel 7:7

(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;
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I Samuel 5:1II Chronicles 26:6Jeremiah 25:20Zechariah 9:6Judges 16:1Judges 16:21Amos 1:7Amos 1:8Judges 1:18Zechariah 9:5I Samuel 5:8II Samuel 1:20

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I Samuel 6:4I Samuel 17:52II Chronicles 26:6I Samuel 7:14I Samuel 6:16Joshua 11:22

(18) And 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 Bethshemite.
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I Samuel 6:16Joshua 13:3

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I Samuel 6:4Isaiah 28:16I Samuel 6:14Joshua 4:5Zechariah 3:9I Samuel 5:8

(19) And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, 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.
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Exodus 19:21Leviticus 10:1Leviticus 10:2Leviticus 10:3Numbers 4:4Numbers 4:5Numbers 4:15Numbers 4:20Deuteronomy 29:29II Samuel 6:7I Chronicles 13:9I Chronicles 13:10

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Isaiah 27:7II Chronicles 28:5II Kings 1:13Ezekiel 48:17Exodus 9:25Joshua 7:5

(20) And the men of Bethshemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy LORD God? and to whom shall he go up from us?
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I Samuel 5:8I Samuel 5:9I Samuel 5:10I Samuel 5:11I Samuel 5:12Numbers 17:12Numbers 17:13II Samuel 6:7II Samuel 6:9I Chronicles 13:11I Chronicles 13:12I Chronicles 13:13

(21) And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjathjearim, saying, The Philistines have brought again the ark of the LORD; come ye down, and fetch it up to you.
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Joshua 18:14Judges 18:12I Chronicles 13:5I Chronicles 13:6Psalms 78:60Jeremiah 7:12Jeremiah 7:14

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