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Verse 1 Samuel 6:7. _MAKE A NEW CART_] It was indecent and improper
to employ in any part of the worship of God any thing that had before
served for a _common_ purpose. Every thing in the worship of...
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A NEW CART ... KINE ON WHICH THERE HATH COME NO YOKE - This was so
ordered in reverence to the ark, and was a right and true feeling. See
Mark 11:2; Matthew 27:60. For the supposed special virtue of n...
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CHAPTER S 6:1-7:2
_ 1. The counsel of the Philistines (1 Samuel 6:1)_
2. The ark at Beth-shemesh (1 Samuel 6:10)
3. The ark at Kirjath-jearim (1 Samuel 6:21;...
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1 SAMUEL 6:1 TO 1 SAMUEL 7:1. ARK BROUGHT BACK TO BETH-SHEMESH; PLAGUE
BREAKS OUT THERE; ARK HOUSED AT KIRIATH-JEARIM.
1 Samuel 6:1 may not belong to the main story; 2 would be a better
continuation...
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A NEW CART. This was done in ignorance of God's requirement (Numbers
4:15; Numbers 7:9; Numbers 10:21). They could not have complied with
the Law, even if they had known it; hence, no judgment fell on...
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_Now therefore make_, &c. Heb. "And now _take and make_a new cart" =
set to work to make. Cp. 2 Samuel 18:18. The use of a _new_cart (cp. 2
Samuel 6:3) and _unyoked_kine (Numbers 19:2;...
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_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...
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_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:_
Make a new cart, х_ `ªGAALAAH_ (H5699)...
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The NEW CART and the KINE who had worn NO YOKE were signs of respect....
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THE PHILISTINES RETURN THE ARK TO ISRAEL
2. The diviners] The Philistines appear to have been notorious for
their attachment to divination: see on Isaiah 2:6....
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ISRAEL’S FIRST KING
1 SAMUEL
_HELEN POCOCK_
CHAPTER 6
THE *PHILISTINES RETURN THE *ARK OF GOD TO *ISRAEL
V1 The *Philistines had the *ark of the Lord in their country for 7
months. V2 Then they...
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NOW THEREFORE MAKE A NEW CART. — The note here in the _Speaker’s
Commentary_ is interesting. “This was so ordered in reverence to the
Ark, and was a right and true feeling. (See Numbers 19:2; 2 Samuel...
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וְ עַתָּ֗ה קְח֨וּ וַ עֲשׂ֜וּ עֲגָלָ֤ה
חֲדָשָׁ
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CHAPTER VII.
_ THE ARK AMONG THE PHILISTINES._
1 Samuel 5:1; 1 Samuel 6:1
ALTHOUGH the history in Samuel is silent as to the doings of the
Philistines immediately after their great victory over Isra...
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RETURNED WITH A TRESPASS-OFFERING
1 Samuel 6:1
There is reason to suppose that when the Philistines got possession of
the Ark, they destroyed Shiloh. See Psalms 78:60; Psalms 78:64;...
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The authorities in Philistia now called a council, and sought the
advice of their diviners. It is intensely interesting to observe how
unanimously they recognized the action of Jehovah. Whatever the l...
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_New cart. It would have been deemed irreverent to use one that had
been employed for other profane purposes, 2 Kings vi. 3. --- Home. All
these circumstances tended to prevent the ark from being conv...
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(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 i...
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The first Book of Samuel (or of Kings as with some) brings before us
that great change for which the Book of Ruth was a preparation, and in
order to which the Spirit of God closed it with the generati...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4, 5, AND 6.
In chapter 4 the enemies of God and of His people display their
strength; the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel. God,
in overrul...
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NOW THEREFORE MAKE A NEW CART,.... For there were no Levites, nor
priests of the Lord to carry it upon their shoulders, as it was wont
to be when carried, and therefore they ordered a cart to be made;...
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_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:_
Ver. 7. _Now therefore make a new cart...
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_Make a new cart_, &c. It was in honour of the ark that they employed
nothing about it that had ever served for any other use. And there was
another reason for choosing such kine as are here mentioned...
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1 After seuen moneths the Philistines take counsell, how to send backe
the Arke.
10 They bring it on a new cart with an offering vnto Bethshemesh.
19 The people are smitten for looking into the Arke...
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Now, therefore, make a new cart, take and prepare in the proper
manner, AND TAKE TWO MILCH KINE ON WHICH THERE HATH COME NO YOKE, Cf
Deuteronomy 21:3, AND TIE THE KINE TO THE CART, hitching them befor...
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The Ark sent back to Beth-Shemesh....
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The seven months during which the Philistines had possessor of the ark
was a full time in which to prove the severity of God's hand in solemn
displeasure. How could they bear it any longer? There is a...
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1-9 Seven months the Philistines were punished with the presence of
the ark; so long it was a plague to them, because they would not send
it home sooner. Sinners lengthen out their own miseries by re...
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MAKE A NEW CART; as David did for the same use, 2 SAMUEL 6:3, in
reverence to the ark. ON WHICH THERE HATH COME NO YOKE; partly in
respect to the ark, and partly for the better discovery, because such...
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CHAPTER 6.
The Ark of God Is Returned to Israel With Due Tributes and Reparations
(1 Samuel 6:1).
Having determined to return the Ark to Israel the Philistines had a
problem. How were they going to...
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CONTENTS: Ark brought to Joshua.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: The Word of God in the hands of the world brings them
condemnation (1 Samuel 6:2) causing them to seek to get rid of it. By
refusing to...
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1 Samuel 6:2. _The ark of the Lord_Hebrews of _Jehovah._ The
Philistines knew the name of the Lord; and had heard of his wondrous
works in Egypt, 1 Samuel 6:6. They had great light, as indeed all the...
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1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 6:7 Untrained MILK COWS could not pull a
CART well as a team. If they went anywhere, it would be HOME to their
CALVES. Th
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CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES—
1 Samuel 6:1. “COUNTRY,” literally the _field_. It probably
signifies the _cultivated plain_.
1 Samuel 6:2. “DIVINERS.” “That is, the organs of the Deity, who
reveal Hi...
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EXPOSITION
RESTORATION OF THE ARK TO THE ISRAELITES (1 Samuel 6:1).
1 SAMUEL 6:1,...
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So they called some of their diviners and seers and all, and they
said, "What shall we do with this thing? So they said, Well the thing
is, send it back to the people of Israel. But don't send it back...
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1 Chronicles 13:7; 2 Samuel 6:3; Numbers 19:2...
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THE ARK IN THE LAND OF THE PHILISTINES
1 Samuel 5:1; 1 Samuel 6:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
There are several things we think should be emphasized.
1. EBENEZER MEANS "HITHERTO HATH THE LORD HELPED US." Wh...
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Milch kine, &c. — In respect to the ark; and for the better
discovery, because such untamed heifers are apt to wander, and keep no
certain and constant paths, as oxen accustomed to the yoke do, and
th...