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The Ark Returned to Israel 1 Now the ark of the LORD had been in th…
The Ark Returned to Israel
1 Now the ark of the LORD had been in the country of the Philistines seven months.
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And 1the 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."
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They said, "If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, 2do not send it empty; but you shall surely 3return 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."
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Then they said, "What shall be the guilt offering which we shall return to Him?" And they said, "Five golden 4tumors and five golden mice 5according to the number of the lords of the Philistines, for one plague was on all of you and on your lords.
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"So you shall make likenesses of your tumors and likenesses of your mice that ravage the land, and 6you shall give glory to the God of Israel; perhaps 7He will ease His hand from you, 8your gods, and your land.
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"Why then do you harden your hearts 9as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When He had severely dealt with them, 10did they not allow the people to go, and they departed?
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"Now therefore, take and 11prepare a new cart and two milch cows on which there 12has never been a yoke; and hitch the cows to the cart and take their calves home, away from them.
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"Take the ark of the LORD and place it on the cart; and put 13the articles of gold which you return to Him as 14a guilt offering in a box by its side. Then send it away that it may go.
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"Watch, if it goes up by the way of its own territory to 15Beth-shemesh, then He has done us this great evil. But if not, then 16we will know that it was not His hand that struck us; it happened to us by chance."
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Then the men did so, and took two milch cows and hitched them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.
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They put the ark of the LORD on the cart, and the box with the golden mice and the likenesses of their tumors.
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And the cows took the straight way in the direction of 17Beth-shemesh; they went along 18the highway, 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.
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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.
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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 19offered the cows as a burnt offering to the LORD.
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20The 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.
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When the 21five lords of the Philistines saw it, they returned to Ekron that day.
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22These 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;
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and the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, 23both of fortified cities and of country villages. 24The 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.
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25He 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.
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The men of Beth-shemesh said, "26Who is able to stand before the LORD, this holy God? And to whom shall He go up from us?"
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So they sent messengers to the inhabitants of 27Kiriath-jearim, saying, "The Philistines have brought back the ark of the LORD; come down and take it up to you."