📖WEB · 1 Samuel 6:10
What does 1 Samuel 6:10 mean?
"The men did so, and took two milk cows, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home."
— 1 Samuel 6:10 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
“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 Yahweh’s ark, and lay it on the cart. Put the jewels of gold, which you return him for a trespass offering, in a coffer 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 men did so, and took two milk cows, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.
They put Yahweh’s ark on the cart, and the coffer with the golden mice and the images of their tumors.
The cows took the straight way by the way to Beth Shemesh. They went along the highway, lowing as they went, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them to the border of Beth Shemesh.
The people of Beth Shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley; and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.
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