Then take the Ark of the Lord, and set it upon the cart, and put the [a]jewels of gold which ye give it for a sin offering in a coffer by the side thereof, and send it away, that it may go.

And take heed, if it go up by the way of his own coast to Beth Shemesh, it is [b]he that did us this great evil: but if not, we shall know then, that it is not his hand that smote us, but it was a [c]chance that happened us.

10 And the men did so: for they took two kine that gave milk, and tied them to the cart, and shut the calves at home.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 6:8 Meaning, the golden emerods and the golden mice.
  2. 1 Samuel 6:9 The God of Israel.
  3. 1 Samuel 6:9 The wicked attribute almost all things to fortune and chance, whereas indeed there is nothing done without God’s providence and decree.

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