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1 Samuel 6:21
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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?”  
21 So they sent messengers to the inhabitants of aKirjath Jearim, saying, “The Philistines have brought back the ark of the Lord; come down and take it up with you.” 
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John Wesley's Notes
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1 Samuel 6:21

Kirjath - jearim - Whither they sent, either because the place was not far off from them, and so it might soon be removed: or because it was a place of eminency and strength, and somewhat farther distant from the Philistines, where therefore it was likely to be better preserved from any new attempts of the Philistines, and to be better attended by the Israelites, who would more freely and frequently come to it at such a place, than in Beth - shemesh, which was upon the border of their enemies land.


 
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