6:1 And
the
ark
of
Jehovah
is
in
the
field
of
the
Philistines
seven
months,
6:2 and
the
Philistines
call
for
priests
and
for
diviners,
saying,
`What
do
we
do
to
the
ark
of
Jehovah
let
us
know
wherewith
we
send
it
to
its
place'
6:3 And
they
say,
`If
ye
are
sending
away
the
ark
of
the
God
of
Israel,
ye
do
not
send
it
away
empty;
for
ye
do
certainly
send
back
to
Him
a
guilt-offering;
then
ye
are
healed,
and
it
hath
been
known
to
you
why
His
hand
doth
not
turn
aside
from
you.'
6:4 And
they
say,
`What
[is]
the
guilt-offering
which
we
send
back
to
Him'
and
they
say,
`The
number
of
the
princes
of
the
Philistines--five
golden
emerods,
and
five
golden
mice--for
one
plague
[is]
to
you
all,
and
to
your
princes,
6:5 and
ye
have
made
images
of
your
emerods,
and
images
of
your
mice
that
are
corrupting
the
land,
and
have
given
honour
to
the
God
of
Israel;
it
may
be
He
doth
lighten
His
hand
from
off
you,
and
from
off
your
gods,
and
from
off
your
land;
6:6 and
why
do
ye
harden
your
heart
as
the
Egyptians
and
Pharaoh
hardened
their
heart
do
they
not--when
He
hath
rolled
Himself
upon
them--send
them
away,
and
they
go
6:7 `And
now,
take
and
make
one
new
cart,
and
two
suckling
kine,
on
which
a
yoke
hath
not
gone
up,
and
ye
have
bound
the
kine
in
the
cart,
and
caused
their
young
ones
to
turn
back
from
after
them
to
the
house,
6:8 and
ye
have
taken
the
ark
of
Jehovah,
and
put
it
on
the
cart,
and
the
vessels
of
gold
which
ye
have
returned
to
Him--a
guilt-offering--ye
put
in
a
coffer
on
its
side,
and
have
sent
it
away,
and
it
hath
gone;
6:9 and
ye
have
seen,
if
the
way
of
its
own
border
it
goeth
up
to
Beth-Shemesh--He
hath
done
to
us
this
great
evil;
and
if
not,
then
we
have
known
that
His
hand
hath
not
come
against
us;
an
accident
it
hath
been
to
us.'
6:10 And
the
men
do
so,
and
take
two
suckling
kine,
and
bind
them
in
the
cart,
and
their
young
ones
they
have
shut
up
in
the
house;
6:11 and
they
place
the
ark
of
Jehovah
upon
the
cart,
and
the
coffer,
and
the
golden
mice,
and
the
images
of
their
emerods.
6:12 And
the
kine
go
straight
in
the
way,
on
the
way
to
Beth-Shemesh,
in
one
highway
they
have
gone,
going
and
lowing,
and
have
not
turned
aside
right
or
left;
and
the
princes
of
the
Philistines
are
going
after
them
unto
the
border
of
Beth-Shemesh.
6:13 And
the
Beth-Shemeshites
are
reaping
their
wheat-harvest
in
the
valley,
and
they
lift
up
their
eyes,
and
see
the
ark,
and
rejoice
to
see
[it]
.
6:14 And
the
cart
hath
come
in
unto
the
field
of
Joshua
the
Beth-Shemeshite,
and
standeth
there,
and
there
[is]
a
great
stone,
and
they
cleave
the
wood
of
the
cart,
and
the
kine
they
have
caused
to
ascend--a
burnt-offering
to
Jehovah.
6:15 And
the
Levites
have
taken
down
the
ark
of
Jehovah,
and
the
coffer
which
[is]
with
it,
in
which
[are]
the
vessels
of
gold,
and
place
[them]
on
the
great
stone;
and
the
men
of
Beth-Shemesh
have
caused
to
ascend
burnt-offerings
and
sacrifice
sacrifices
in
that
day
to
Jehovah;
6:16 and
the
five
princes
of
the
Philistines
have
seen
[it]
,
and
turn
back
[to]
Ekron,
on
that
day.
6:17 And
these
[are]
the
golden
emerods
which
the
Philistines
have
sent
back--a
guilt-offering
to
Jehovah:
for
Ashdod
one,
for
Gaza
one,
for
Ashkelon
one,
for
Gath
one,
for
Ekron
one;
6:18 and
the
golden
mice--the
number
of
all
the
cities
of
the
Philistines--for
the
five
princes,
from
the
fenced
city
even
unto
the
hamlet
of
the
villages,
even
unto
the
great
meadow
on
which
they
placed
the
ark
of
Jehovah--[
are]
unto
this
day
in
the
field
of
Joshua
the
Beth-Shemeshite.
6:19 And
He
smiteth
among
the
men
of
Beth-Shemesh,
for
they
looked
into
the
ark
of
Jehovah,
yea,
He
smiteth
among
the
people
seventy
men--fifty
chief
men;
and
the
people
mourn,
because
Jehovah
smote
among
the
people--a
great
smiting.
6:20 And
the
men
of
Beth-Shemesh
say,
`Who
is
able
to
stand
before
Jehovah,
this
holy
God
and
unto
whom
doth
He
go
up
from
us'
6:21 And
they
send
messengers
unto
the
inhabitants
of
Kirjath-Jearim,
saying,
`The
Philistines
have
sent
back
the
ark
of
Jehovah;
come
down,
take
it
up
unto
you.'
