1 Samuel 6:3 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

1 Samuel 6:3

The Ark Returned to Israel

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

2 And the Philistines ^acalled for the priests and the diviners, saying, “What shall we do with the ark of the Lord? Tell us how we should send it to its place.”

3 So they said, “If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it ^aempty; but by all means return it to Him with ^ba trespass offering. Then you will be healed, and it will be known to you why His hand is not removed from you.”

4 Then they said, “What is the trespass offering which we shall return to Him?” They answered, ^a“Five golden tumors and five golden rats, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines. For the same plague was on all of¹ you and on your lords.

5 Therefore you shall make images of your tumors and images of your rats that ^aravage the land, and you shall ^bgive glory to the God of Israel; perhaps He will ^clighten His hand from you, from ^dyour gods, and from your land.

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the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners—The designed restoration of the ark was not, it seems, universally approved of, and many doubts were expressed whether the prevailing pestilence was really a judgment of Heaven. The priests and diviners united all parties by recommending a course which would enable them easily to discriminate the true character of the calamities, and at the same time to propitiate the incensed Deity for any acts of disrespect which might have been shown to His ark.

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