1 Samuel 6:14 - John Wesley's Notes

1 Samuel 6:14

12 Then the cows headed straight for the road to Beth Shemesh, and went along the ^ahighway, lowing as they went, and did not turn aside to the right hand or the left. And the lords of the Philistines went after them to the border of Beth Shemesh.

13 Now the people of Beth Shemesh were reaping their ^awheat harvest in the valley; and they lifted their eyes and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.

14 Then the cart came into the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh, and stood there; a large stone was there. So they split the wood of the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the Lord.

15 The Levites took down the ark of the Lord and the chest that was with it, in which were the articles of gold, and put them on the large stone. Then the men of Beth Shemesh offered burnt offerings and made sacrifices the same day to the Lord.

16 So when ^athe five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.

Commentaries:

John Wesley's Notes

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1 Samuel 6:14

They - Not the lords of the Philistines, but the Beth - shemites, the priest that dwelt there. Offered the kine - There may seem to he a double error in this act.

First, that they offered females for a burnt - offering, contrary to

Leviticus 1:3.

Secondly, that they did it in a forbidden place, Deuteronomy 12:5-6. But this case being extraordinary, may in some sort excuse it, if they did not proceed by ordinary rules.

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