The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Grace777x70]

1 Samuel 5:12 (NASB)
[SUP]12 [/SUP] And the men who did not die were smitten with tumors and the cry of the city went up to heaven.

 

[Grace777x70]

1 Samuel 6:1 (NASB)
[SUP]1 [/SUP] Now the ark of the LORD had been in the country of the Philistines seven months.

 

[willfollowsGod]

1 Samuel 6:2
New International Version (NIV)

the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners and said, “What shall we do with the ark of the LORD? Tell us how we should send it back to its place.”

 

[Grace777x70]

1 Samuel 6:3 (NASB)
[SUP]3 [/SUP] 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."

 

[Grace777x70]

1 Samuel 6:4 (NASB)
[SUP]4 [/SUP] 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.

 

[seed_time_harvest]

1 Samuel 6:5
King James Version(KJV)

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.

 

[Grace777x70]

1 Samuel 6:6 (NASB)
[SUP]6 [/SUP] "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?

 

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[Grace777x70]

1 Samuel 6:8 (NASB)
[SUP]8 [/SUP] "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.

 

[mario1001]

1 Samuel 6:9 "and watch.If it goes up on the way to it's own land,to Beth-Semesh,then it is He who has done us this great harm,but if not,then we shall know that it is not His hand that struck us;it happened to us by coincidence."

 

[Grace777x70]

1 Samuel 6:10 (NASB)
[SUP]10 [/SUP] Then the men did so, and took two milch cows and hitched them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.

 

[willfollowsGod]

1 Samuel 6:11
New International Version (NIV)

They placed the ark of the LORD on the cart and along with it the chest containing the gold rats and the models of the tumors.

 

[Grace777x70]

1 Samuel 6:12 (NASB)
[SUP]12 [/SUP] And the cows took the straight way in the direction of Beth-shemesh; they went along the 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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[Grace777x70]

1 Samuel 6:14 (NASB)
[SUP]14 [/SUP] 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.

 

[seed_time_harvest]

1 Samuel 6:15
King James Version(KJV)

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.

 

[Grace777x70]

1 Samuel 6:16 (NASB)
[SUP]16 [/SUP] When the five lords of the Philistines saw it, they returned to Ekron that day.

 

[mario1001]

1 Samuel 6:17 These are the gold tumors the Philistines sent as a guilt offering to the LORD--one each for Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath and Ekron.

 

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[seed_time_harvest]

1 Samuel 6:19
King James Version(KJV)

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.