1 Samuel 6:1-21
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
The TRESPASS OFFERING was always brought to atone for some wrong done to, or some right withheld from, God or man.... [ Continue Reading ]
Aristotle relates that in harvest entire crops were sometimes destroyed in a single night by the ravages of field-mice.... [ Continue Reading ]
The NEW CART and the KINE who had worn NO YOKE were signs of respect.... [ Continue Reading ]
Under ordinary circumstances the cows would not have left their calves. BETH-SHEMESH] the modern Ain-Shems, on the N. border of Judah.... [ Continue Reading ]
EVEN UNTO THE GREAT _stone_] Read with LXX, 'And the great stone, whereon they set down the ark of the LORD, is a witness unto this day.... [ Continue Reading ]
It is very probable that in this v. LXX has preserved the original text: 'But the sons of Jechoniah rejoiced not with the men of Beth-shemesh, when they gazed (with gladness) at the ark of the LORD, and he smote among them 70 men.' All editors are agreed that the 'fifty thousand' is a gloss which ha... [ Continue Reading ]
KIRJATH-JEARIM] see on Judges 18:12. For the further account of the ark cp. 2 Samuel 6. C.... [ Continue Reading ]
This v. is the conclusion of the narrative, and should really form part of 1 Samuel 6. We should have expected the ark to be taken back to Shiloh; perhaps Shiloh had fallen into the hands of the Philistines, who now overran Israel (cp. 1 Samuel 14:6; 1 Samuel 14:19). At any rate, we hear no more of... [ Continue Reading ]