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1 Samuel 6:18
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16 So when athe five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.  
17 aThese are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned as a trespass offering to the Lord: one for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ashkelon, one for bGath, one for Ekron;  
18 and the golden rats, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both fortified cities and country villages, even as far as the large stone of Abel on which they set the ark of the Lord, which stone remains to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh.
19 Then aHe struck the men of Beth Shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the Lord.1 He bstruck fifty thousand and seventy men of the people, and the people lamented because the Lord had struck the people with a great slaughter.  

The Ark at Kirjath Jearim

20 And the men of Beth Shemesh said, a“Who is able to stand before this holy Lord God? And to whom shall it go up from us?”  
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John Wesley's Notes
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1 Samuel 6:18

Villages - This is added for explication of that foregoing phrase, all the cities; either to shew, that under the name of the five cities were comprehended all the villages and territories belonging to them, in whose name, and at whose charge these presents were made; or to express the difference between this and the former present, the emerods being only five, according to the five cities mentioned, I Samuel 6:17, because it may seem, the cities only, or principally, were pestered with that disease; and the mice being many more according to the number of all the cities, as is here expressed: the word city being taken generally so, as to include not only fenced cities, but also the country villages, and the fields belonging to them. Abel - This is mentioned as the utmost border of the Philistines territory, to which the plague of mice extended. And this place is here called Abel, by anticipation from the great mourning mentioned in the following verse. It is desirable, to see the ark in its habitation, in all the circumstances of solemnity. But it is better to have it on a great stone, and in the fields of the wood, than to be without it. The intrinsic grandeur of divine ordinances ought not to be diminished in our eyes, by the meanness and poverty of the place, where they are administered.


 
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