1 Samuel 6

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 Samuel 6:1 , 1 Samuel 6:2 . They advise that it be sent back with a trespass-offering of five golden emerods, and five golden mice, 1 Samuel 6:3-6 . 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-shemesh, as going to the Israelitish border, then the Lord had afflicted them, if not, then their evils were accidental, 1 Samuel 6:7-9 . They do as directed; and the kine take the way of Beth-shemesh, 1 Samuel 6:10-13 . 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, 1 Samuel 6:14 , 1 Samuel 6:15 . The offerings of the five lords of the Philistines, 1 Samuel 6:16-18 . For too curiously looking into the ark, the men of Beth-shemesh are smitten of the Lord, 1 Samuel 6:19 , 1 Samuel 6:20 . They send to the inhabitants of Kirjath-jearim, that they may take away the ark, 1 Samuel 6:21 .