And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines seven months.
And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, What shall we do to the ark of the LORD? tell us wherewith we shall send it to his place.
And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass offering: then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you.
empty
Exodus 23:15 You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread: (you shall eat unleavened …
Exodus 34:20 But the firstling of an donkey you shall redeem with a lamb: and …
Deuteronomy 16:16 Three times in a year shall all your males appear before the LORD …
a trespass
Leviticus 5:6,15-19 And he shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD for his sin …
Leviticus 6:6 And he shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD, a ram without …
Leviticus 7:1-7 Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering: it is most holy…
know
1 Samuel 6:9 And see, if it goes up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, …
1 Samuel 5:7,9,11 And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The ark …
Job 10:2 I will say to God, Do not condemn me; show me why you contend with me.
Job 34:31,32 Surely it is meet to be said to God, I have borne chastisement, I …
Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines: for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.
Five golden
1 Samuel 6:5,17,18 Why you shall make images of your tumors, and images of your mice …
1 Samuel 5:6,9 But the hand of the LORD was heavy on them of Ashdod, and he destroyed …
Exodus 12:35 And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and …
Joshua 13:3 From Sihor, which is before Egypt, even to the borders of Ekron northward, …
Judges 3:3 Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and …
you all [heb] them
Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
mice? Bochart has collected many curious accounts relative to the terrible devastations made by these mischievous animals. William, Archbishop of Tyre, records, that in the beginning of the twelfth century, a penitential council was held at Naplouse, where five and twenty canons were framed for the correction of the manners of the inhabitants of the Christian kingdom of Jerusalem, who they apprehended had provoked to bring upon them the calamities of earthquakes, war, and famine. This last he ascribes to locusts and devouring mice, which had for four years together so destroyed the fruits of the earth as to cause an almost total failure of their crops. It was customary for the ancient heathen to offer to their gods such monuments of their deliverance as represented the evils from which they had been rescued; and Tavernier informs us, that among the Indians, when a pilgrim goes to one of the pagodas for a cure, he brings the figure of the member affected, made of gold, silver, or copper, according to his circumstances, when he offers to his god.
Exodus 8:5,17,24 And the LORD spoke to Moses, Say to Aaron, Stretch forth your hand …
Exodus 10:14,15 And the locust went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in …
Joel 1:4-7 That which the palmerworm has left has the locust eaten; and that …
Joel 2:25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust has eaten, the …
give glory
Joshua 7:19 And Joshua said to Achan, My son, give, I pray you, glory to the …
Psalm 18:44 As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall …
Psalm 66:3 Say to God, How terrible are you in your works! through the greatness …
Isaiah 42:21 The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify …
Jeremiah 3:13 Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against …
Jeremiah 13:16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before …
Malachi 2:2 If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give …
John 9:24 Then again called they the man that was blind, and said to him, Give …
Revelation 11:13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part …
Revelation 16:9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of …
lighten
1 Samuel 5:6,11 But the hand of the LORD was heavy on them of Ashdod, and he destroyed …
Psalm 32:4 For day and night your hand was heavy on me: my moisture is turned …
Psalm 39:10 Remove your stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of your hand.
off your
1 Samuel 5:3,4,7 And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon …
Exodus 12:12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite …
Numbers 33:4 For the Egyptians buried all their firstborn, which the LORD had …
Isaiah 19:1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud, and …
Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?
harden
Job 9:4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself …
Psalm 95:8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of …
Romans 2:5 But after your hardness and impenitent heart treasure up to yourself …
Hebrews 3:13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any …
the Egyptians
Exodus 7:13 And he hardened Pharaoh's heart, that he listened not to them; as …
Exodus 8:15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, …
Exodus 9:16,34 And in very deed for this cause have I raised you up, for to show …
Exodus 10:3 And Moses and Aaron came in to Pharaoh, and said to him, Thus said …
Exodus 14:17,23 And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they …
Exodus 15:14-16 The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the …
wonderfully. or, reproachfully
did they not
Exodus 12:31-33 And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and …
the people [heb] them
Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them:
And take the ark of the LORD, and lay it upon the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which ye return him for a trespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.
And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us; it was a chance that happened to us.
Beth-shemesh
Joshua 15:10 And the border compassed from Baalah westward to mount Seir, and …
Joshua 21:16 And Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah with her suburbs, and Bethshemesh …
he. or, it
Amos 3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? …
we shall
1 Samuel 6:3 And they said, If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, send …
not his hand
Isaiah 26:11 LORD, when your hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall …
a chance
2 Samuel 1:6 And the young man that told him said, As I happened by chance on …
2 Samuel 1:6 And the young man that told him said, As I happened by chance on …
Ecclesiastes 9:11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, …
Luke 10:31 And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when …
And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:
And they laid the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.
And the kine took the straight way to the way of Bethshemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Bethshemesh.
And they of Bethshemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.
And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Bethshemite, and stood there, where there was a great stone: and they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the LORD.
offered
1 Samuel 7:9-17 And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a burnt offering …
1 Samuel 11:5 And, behold, Saul came after the herd out of the field; and Saul …
1 Samuel 20:29 And he said, Let me go, I pray you; for our family has a sacrifice …
Exodus 20:24 An altar of earth you shall make to me, and shall sacrifice thereon …
Judges 6:26 And build an altar to the LORD your God on the top of this rock, …
Judges 21:4 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and …
2 Samuel 24:18,22,25 And Gad came that day to David, and said to him, Go up, raise an …
1 Kings 18:30-38 And Elijah said to all the people, Come near to me. And all the people …
And the Levites took down the ark of the LORD, and the coffer that was with it, wherein the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Bethshemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto the LORD.
And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.
the five
1 Samuel 6:4,12 Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall …
Joshua 13:3 From Sihor, which is before Egypt, even to the borders of Ekron northward, …
Judges 3:3 Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and …
Judges 16:5,23-30 And the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, …
they returned
1 Samuel 5:10 Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, …
And these are the golden emerods which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering unto the LORD; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;
these
1 Samuel 6:4 Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall …
Ashdod
1 Samuel 5:1 And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.
2 Chronicles 26:6 And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and broke down …
Jeremiah 25:20 And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, …
Zechariah 9:6 And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride …
Gaza
Judges 16:1,21 Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in to her…
Amos 1:7,8 But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the …
Askelon
Judges 1:18 Also Judah took Gaza with the coast thereof, and Askelon with the …
Zechariah 9:5 Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also shall see it, and be very …
Gath
1 Samuel 5:8 They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines …
2 Samuel 1:20 Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest …
2 Samuel 21:22 These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of …
Amos 6:2 Pass you to Calneh, and see; and from there go you to Hamath the …
Ekron
1 Samuel 5:10 Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, …
2 Kings 1:2 And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that …
Amos 1:8 And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holds …
And the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fenced cities, and of country villages, even unto the great stone of Abel, whereon they set down the ark of the LORD: which stone remaineth unto this day in the field of Joshua, the Bethshemite.
And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.
he smote
Exodus 19:21 And the LORD said to Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they …
Leviticus 10:1-3 And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, …
Numbers 4:4,5,15,20 This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle …
Deuteronomy 29:29 The secret things belong to the LORD our God: but those things which …
2 Samuel 6:7 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote …
1 Chronicles 13:9,10 And when they came to the threshing floor of Chidon, Uzza put forth …
Colossians 2:18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and …
1 Peter 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: …
fifty thousand As it is very improbable that the village of Beth-shemesh should contain, or be capable of employing,
And the men of Bethshemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy LORD God? and to whom shall he go up from us?
1 Samuel 5:8-12 They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines …
Numbers 17:12,13 And the children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, Behold, we die, …
2 Samuel 6:7,9 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote …
1 Chronicles 13:11-13 And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach on Uzza: …
Psalm 76:7 You, even you, are to be feared: and who may stand in your sight …
Malachi 3:2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when …
Luke 5:8 When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart …
Luke 8:37 Then the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes round about …
And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjathjearim, saying, The Philistines have brought again the ark of the LORD; come ye down, and fetch it up to you.
