1 Samuel 6:10
8 Take the ark of the LORD, set it on the cart, and in a chest beside it put the gold objects you are sending Him as a guilt offering. Then send the ark on its way,
9 but keep watching it. If it goes up the road to its homeland, toward Beth-shemesh, it is the LORD who has brought on us this great disaster. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not His hand that punished us and that it happened by chance.”
So the men did as instructed. They took two milk cows, hitched them to the cart, and penned up their calves.
11 Then they put the ark of the LORD on the cart, along with the chest containing the gold rats and the images of the tumors.
12 And the cows headed straight up the road toward Beth-shemesh, staying on that one highway and lowing as they went, never straying to the right or to the left. The rulers of the Philistines followed behind them to the border of Beth-shemesh.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- So the men did as instructed. They took two milk cows, hitched them to the cart, and penned up their calves.
- KJV
- And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:
- WEB
- The men did so, and took two milk cows and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.
- ASV
- And the men did so, and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home;
- DARBY
- And the men did so, and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.
- BLB
- And the men did so, and they took two suckling cows and bound them to the cart, and they shut up their calves in the house.
- ÅB
- Og mennene gjorde slik: De tok to nybære kyr og spente dem for vognen, men kalvene holdt de tilbake hjemme.
- OTB
- Så gjorde de som instruert. De tok to kyr og spente dem for vognen, og de holdt kalvene deres hjemme.
- B1930
- Og mennene gjorde således: De tok to nybære kyr og spente dem for vognen, men kalvene holdt de tilbake hjemme.