The Philistines call for the priests and the diviners and ask what to do with the LORD’s ark
블레셋 사람이 제사장들과 복술자들을 불러 여호와의 궤를 어떻게 할지 물음
1 Samuel 6:1–9: the LORD’s ark is in the country of the Philistines seven months. The Philistines call for the priests and the diviners, saying, “What shall we do with the LORD’s ark? Show us how we should send it to its place.” They say, “If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, don’t send it empty; but by all means return a trespass offering to him. Then you will be healed, and it will be known to you why his hand is not removed from you.” The text goes on at 6:4, “Then they said, ‘What should the trespass offering be which we shall return to him?’ They said, ‘Five golden tumors and five golden mice, for the number of the lords of the Philistines; for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.’” The answer goes on: “Therefore you shall make images of your tumors and images of your mice that mar the land; and you shall give glory to the God of Israel. Perhaps he will release his hand from you, from your gods, and from your land. Why then do you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When he had worked wonderfully among them, didn’t they let the people go, and they departed? Now therefore take and prepare yourselves a new cart and two milk cows on which there has come no yoke; and tie the cows to the cart, and bring their calves home from them; and take the LORD’s ark and lay it on the cart. Put the jewels of gold, which you return him for a trespass offering, in a box by its side; and send it away, that it may go. Behold, if it goes up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has done us this great evil; but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us. It was a chance that happened to us.” The Korean Revised Version names no one who gives the answer at 6:4.
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- 1SA 6:1–9, engwebp
1The LORD’s ark was in the country of the Philistines seven months.
2The Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, “What shall we do with the LORD’s ark? Show us how we should send it to its place.”
3They said, “If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, don’t send it empty; but by all means return a trespass offering to him. Then you will be healed, and it will be known to you why his hand is not removed from you.”
4Then they said, “What should the trespass offering be which we shall return to him?” They said, “Five golden tumors and five golden mice, for the number of the lords of the Philistines; for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.
5Therefore you shall make images of your tumors and images of your mice that mar the land; and you shall give glory to the God of Israel. Perhaps he will release his hand from you, from your gods, and from your land.
6Why then do you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When he had worked wonderfully among them, didn’t they let the people go, and they departed?
7“Now therefore take and prepare yourselves a new cart and two milk cows on which there has come no yoke; and tie the cows to the cart, and bring their calves home from them;
8and take the LORD’s ark and lay it on the cart. Put the jewels of gold, which you return him for a trespass offering, in a box by its side; and send it away, that it may go.
9Behold, if it goes up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has done us this great evil; but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us. It was a chance that happened to us.”
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[Bibliadatum entry report] Entry: The Philistines call for the priests and the diviners and ask what to do with the LORD’s ark (event-1sa-6-the-priests-and-the-diviners) Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/event/1sa-6-the-priests-and-the-diviners Current wording: 1 Samuel 6:1–9: the LORD’s ark is in the country of the Philistines seven months. The Philistines call for the priests and the diviners, saying, “What shall we do with the LORD’s ark? Show us how we should send it to its place.” They say, “If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, don’t send it empty; but by all means return a trespass offering to him. Then you will be healed, and it will be known to you why his hand is not removed from you.” The text goes on at 6:4, “Then they said, ‘What should the trespass offering be which we shall return to him?’ They said, ‘Five golden tumors and five golden mice, for the number of the lords of the Philistines; for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.’” The answer goes on: “Therefore you shall make images of your tumors and images of your mice that mar the land; and you shall give glory to the God of Israel. Perhaps he will release his hand from you, from your gods, and from your land. Why then do you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When he had worked wonderfully among them, didn’t they let the people go, and they departed? Now therefore take and prepare yourselves a new cart and two milk cows on which there has come no yoke; and tie the cows to the cart, and bring their calves home from them; and take the LORD’s ark and lay it on the cart. Put the jewels of gold, which you return him for a trespass offering, in a box by its side; and send it away, that it may go. Behold, if it goes up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has done us this great evil; but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us. It was a chance that happened to us.” The Korean Revised Version names no one who gives the answer at 6:4. Cited evidence: 1SA 6:1–9, engwebp Review state: ai-assisted / human-review-pending What looks wrong: (not written yet) --- This collection records what the text says and does not settle interpretation. A report about a reading that divides opinion may be registered as an unresolved issue rather than corrected.