1 Samuel 6
1 and to be ark LORD in/on/with land: country Philistine seven month
After the Ark of the Lord had been in the country of the Philistines for seven months,
2 and to call: call to Philistine to/for priest and to/for to divine to/for to say what? to make: do to/for ark LORD to know us in/on/with what? to send: depart him to/for place his
the Philistines summoned the priests and fortune-tellers, and asked, “What should we do with the Ark of the Lord? Explain to us how to send it back to where it came from.”
3 and to say if to send: depart [obj] ark God Israel not to send: depart [obj] him emptily for to return: return to return: return to/for him guilt (offering) then to heal and to know to/for you to/for what? not to turn aside: turn aside hand: power his from you
“If you're going to send back the Ark of the God of Israel, do not send it back empty-handedly, but make sure to send along with it a gift of a guilt offering to him,” they replied. “Then you will be healed, and you will understand why he has treated you like this.”
4 and to say what? [the] guilt (offering) which to return: return to/for him and to say number lord Philistine five (tumor *QK) gold and five mouse gold for plague one to/for all their and to/for lord your
“What kind of guilt offering should we send back to him?” asked the Philistines. “Five gold objects in the shape of the swellings, and five gold rats representing the number of rulers of the Philistines,” they replied. “The same plague attacked both you and your rulers.
5 and to make image (tumor your *QK) and image mouse your [the] to ruin [obj] [the] land: country/planet and to give: give to/for God Israel glory perhaps to lighten [obj] hand: power his from upon you and from upon God your and from upon land: country/planet your
Make models to represent your swellings and the rats destroying the country, and honor the God of Israel. Perhaps he will stop punishing you, your gods, and your land.
6 and to/for what? to honor: heavy [obj] heart your like/as as which to honor: heavy Egyptian and Pharaoh [obj] heart their not like/as as which to abuse in/on/with them and to send: depart them and to go: went
Why be stubborn like the Egyptians and Pharaoh? When he punished them, didn't they send the Israelites on their way as they left?
7 and now to take: take and to make cart new one and two heifer to nurse which not to ascend: rise upon them yoke and to bind [obj] [the] heifer in/on/with cart and to return: return son: young animal their from after them [the] house: home [to]
So get a new cart ready, pulled by two milk cows that have never been yoked. Tie the cows to the cart, but take their calves away and put them in a stall.
8 and to take: take [obj] ark LORD and to give: put [obj] him to(wards) [the] cart and [obj] article/utensil [the] gold which to return: return to/for him guilt (offering) to set: put in/on/with box from side his and to send: depart [obj] him and to go: went
Pick up the Ark of the Lord, put it on the cart, and place the gold objects you are sending him as a guilt offering in a chest beside it. Then send the Ark away. Let it go whichever way it wants,
9 and to see: see if way: road border: area his to ascend: rise Beth-shemesh Beth-shemesh he/she/it to make: do to/for us [obj] [the] distress: harm [the] great: large [the] this and if not and to know for not hand: power his to touch in/on/with us accident he/she/it to be to/for us
but keep watching it. If it goes up the road to its home country, to Beth-shemesh, then it is the Lord who caused all this terrible trouble for us. But if it doesn't, then we'll know that it wasn't him who punished us—it just happened to us by chance.”
10 and to make: do [the] human so and to take: take two heifer to nurse and to bind them in/on/with cart and [obj] son: young animal their to restrain in/on/with house: home
So that's what the people did. They took two milk cows and tied them to the cart, and kept their calves in a stall.
11 and to set: put [obj] ark LORD to(wards) [the] cart and [obj] [the] box and [obj] mouse [the] gold and [obj] image tumor their
They put the Ark of the Lord on the cart, together with the chest containing the gold rats and models of their swellings.
12 and to smooth [the] heifer in/on/with way: journey upon way: direction Beth-shemesh Beth-shemesh in/on/with highway one to go: walk to go: journey and to low and not to turn aside: turn aside right and left and lord Philistine to go: follow after them till border: boundary Beth-shemesh Beth-shemesh
The cows went straight up the road to Beth-shemesh, lowing as they went, going directly on the main road and not turning either left or right. The Philistine rulers followed them all the way to the border of Beth-shemesh.
13 and Beth-shemesh Beth-shemesh to reap harvest wheat in/on/with valley and to lift: look [obj] eye their and to see: see [obj] [the] ark and to rejoice to/for to see: see
The people of Beth-shemesh were reaping wheat in the valley. When they looked up and saw the Ark, they were so happy to see it.
14 and [the] cart to come (in): come to(wards) land: country Joshua Bethshemite [the] Bethshemite and to stand: stand there and there stone great: large and to break up/open [obj] tree: wood [the] cart and [obj] [the] heifer to ascend: offer up burnt offering to/for LORD
The cart came into the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh, and stopped there beside a large rock. The people cut up the cart for wood and sacrificed the cows as a burnt offering to the Lord.
15 and [the] Levi to go down [obj] ark LORD and [obj] [the] box which with him which in/on/with him article/utensil gold and to set: make to(wards) [the] stone [the] great: large and human Beth-shemesh Beth-shemesh to ascend: offer up burnt offering and to sacrifice sacrifice in/on/with day [the] he/she/it to/for LORD
The Levites took down the Ark of the Lord and the chest containing the gold objects, and put them on the large rock. The people of Beth-shemesh presented burnt offerings and made sacrifices to the Lord that day.
16 and five lord Philistine to see: see and to return: return Ekron in/on/with day [the] he/she/it
The five Philistine rulers saw all that happened this and then went back to Ekron the same day.
17 and these tumor [the] gold which to return: return Philistine guilt (offering) to/for LORD to/for Ashdod one to/for Gaza one to/for Ashkelon one to/for Gath one to/for Ekron one
The five gold models of swellings sent by the Philistines as a guilt offering to the Lord were from the rulers of Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron.
18 and mouse [the] gold number all city Philistine to/for five [the] lord from city fortification and till village [the] villager and till Abel [the] great: large which to rest upon her [obj] ark LORD till [the] day: today [the] this in/on/with land: country Joshua Bethshemite [the] Bethshemite
The gold rats represented the number of Philistine towns of the five rulers—the fortified towns and their surrounding villages. The large rock on which they placed the Ark of the Lord still stands to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh as a witness to what happened there.
19 and to smite in/on/with human Beth-shemesh Beth-shemesh for to see: see in/on/with ark LORD and to smite in/on/with people seventy man fifty thousand man and to mourn [the] people for to smite LORD in/on/with people wound great: large
But God killed some of the people of Beth-shemesh because they looked inside the Ark of the Lord. He killed seventy, and the people mourned deeply because the Lord had killed so many.
20 and to say human Beth-shemesh Beth-shemesh who? be able to/for to stand: stand to/for face: before LORD [the] God [the] holy [the] this and to(wards) who? to ascend: rise from upon us
The people of Beth-shemesh asked, “Who can stand before the Lord, this holy God? Where should the Ark go from here?”
21 and to send: depart messenger to(wards) to dwell Kiriath-jearim Kiriath-jearim to/for to say to return: return Philistine [obj] ark LORD to go down to ascend: establish [obj] him to(wards) you
They sent messengers to the people of Kiriath-jearim to say, “The Philistines have returned the Ark of the Lord. Come down and take it home with you.”
