Bible Compass
Log inGet started
Back to the chapter

1 Samuel 6:11

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.”

10 So the men did as instructed. They took two milk cows, hitched them to the cart, and penned up their calves.

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.

13 Now the people of Beth-shemesh were harvesting wheat in the valley, and when they looked up and saw the ark, they were overjoyed at the sight.

Read the whole chapter

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
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.
KJV
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.
WEB
They put the LORD’s ark on the cart, and the box with the golden mice and the images of their tumors.
ASV
and they put the ark of Jehovah upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their tumors.
DARBY
And they laid the ark of Jehovah upon the cart, and the coffer with the golden mice and the images of their sores.
BLB
And they set the ark of YHWH on the cart, and the chest, and the golden rats, and the images of their tumors.
ÅB
Så satte de Herrens ark på vognen og likeså skrinet og gullmusene og bildene av sine bylder.
OTB
De plasserte Herrens ark på vognen, sammen med kassen som inneholdt gullrottene og modellene av byllene deres.
B1930
Så satte de Herrens ark på vognen og likeså skrinet og gullmusene og billedene av sine bylder.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • 1 Chronicles 15:13–15

    It was because you Levites were not with us the first time that the LORD our God burst forth in anger against us. For we did not consult Him about the proper order.”

    Read in context

  • 1 Chronicles 13:7

    So they carried the ark of God from the house of Abinadab on a new cart, with Uzzah and Ahio guiding the cart.

    Read in context

  • 2 Samuel 6:3

    They set the ark of God on a new cart and brought it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were guiding the new cart,

    Read in context