Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
1 Samuel 6:1
CHAPTER VI
After the ark had been seven months in the land of the
Philistines, they consult their priests and diviners about
sending it to Shiloh, 1, 2.
They advise that it be sent back with a trespass-offering of
five golden emerods, and five golden mice, 3-6.
They advise also that it be sent back on a new cart, drawn by
two milch kine from whom their calves shall be tied up; and
then conclude that if these cows shalt take the way of
Beth-hemesh, as going to the Israelitish border, then the LORD
had afflicted them, if not, then their evils were accidental,
7-9.
They do as directed; and the kine take the way of Beth-shemesh,
10-13.
They stop in the field of Joshua; and the men of Beth-shemesh
take them, and offer them to the Lord for a burnt-offering,
and cleave the wood of the cart to burn them, and make sundry
other offerings, 14, 15.
The offerings of the five lords of the Philistines, 16-18.
For too curiously looking into the ark, the men of Beth-shemesh
are smitten of the Lord, 19, 20.
They send to the inhabitants of Kirjath-jearim, that they may
take away the ark, 21.
NOTES ON CHAP. VI