1 Samuel 6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

1 Samuel 6The Ark Returned to Israel

1The ark of the Lord was in the country of the Philistines seven months.

2 will not his hand then turn from you?”

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14 the ark of the Lord, and he killed seventy men of them. The people mourned because the Lord had made a great slaughter among the people.

20Lev 11.44, 45; 2 Sam 6.9Then the people of Beth-shemesh said, “Who is able to stand before the Lord, this holy God? To whom shall he go so that we may be rid of him?”

21Josh 9.17; 15.9, 60So they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath-jearim, saying, “The Philistines have returned the ark of the Lord. Come down and take it up to you.”