A DIGEST OF CHAPTER 6 1 Samuel 6:1-9 _The decision to return the Ark._ Although the Philistines had beaten Israel on the field of battle, they were themselves utterly defeated in their attempt to make a prize of war out of the Ark of the Testimony. As they had moved the Ark about from city to city... [ Continue Reading ]
_The Decision to Return the Ark. 1 Samuel 6:1-9_ And the ark of the Lord was in the country of the Philistines seven months. 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. 3 And they sa... [ Continue Reading ]
_The Ark Returned._ 1 Samuel 6:10-18 10 And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home: 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. 12 And the kine took the straig... [ Continue Reading ]
THE MEN OF BETH-SHEMESH SMITTEN. 1 SAMUEL 6:19-21 19 And he smote the men of Beth-shemesh, 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... [ Continue Reading ]