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Ferrar Fentons 'Holy Bible in Modern English. All spelling, punctuation and formatting maintained through-out. Verse ordering follows the King James version for clarity and necessary organization of the verses.

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RF SA1 6:1 The Philistines ask their priests what to do.
The Ark of the EVER-LIVING was in the country of the Philistines seven months.
RF SA1 6:2 Then the Philistines summoned their priests and diviners to enquire:—"What must we do with the Ark of the EVER-LIVING? Inform us how we must send it back to its place?"
RF SA1 6:3 They Advise to return the Ark to Israel with a Rich present in God.
And they replied, "If you send back the Ark of the GOD of Israel you should not send it back empty, but you must return to Him an offering so that He may cure you, and inform you why He did not turn His hand from you."
RF SA1 6:4 Then they asked, "What is the offering that we must return to Him?" and they answered, "Five tumours of gold, the same as the number of the lords of the Philistines; and five mice of gold, for the same plague was upon you and your lords.
RF SA1 6:5 Make also representations of the tumours, and of the mice that have ravaged the country, and pay honour to the GOD of Israel. Perhaps then He will lift His hand from upon you, and from your gods and from your country.
RF SA1 6:6 For wily should you stupefy your hearts as the Mitzerites and Pharoh stupefied their hearts so that they would not allow them to go up from them? Yet, when He had afflicted them, they sent them away and they went.
RF SA1 6:7 So now set to work and prepare a new cart, and select two heifers, who are suckling calves, who have not had yokes upon them, and harness the heifers to the cart, but put their young back to the stable.
RF SA1 6:8 Then take the Ark of the EVER-LIVING and put it upon the cart, with the things of gold which you send to Him as an offering. Put them in a box beside it, and send it away, and let it go.
RF SA1 6:9 But watch, if it goes up the road to Beth-shemsh then HE has sent these great sufferings to us: but if not, then we shall know that His hand has not struck us. It will have been an accident."
RF SA1 6:10 (B.C. 1139.) How the Ark was Returned.
Those men consequently did so, and took two nursing heifers, and harnessed them to the cart, but kept their young in the stable.
RF SA1 6:11 They also placed the Ark of the EVER-LIVING upon the cart, with the chest, and the mice of gold, and the representations of their tumours,
RF SA1 6:12 and the heifers went straight in a track for the road to Beth-shemsh by the highway from the first, going along they bellowed, but did not turn to the right or the left, and the lords of the Philistines followed after them to the borders of Beth-shemsh.
RF SA1 6:13 Now the harvesters of Beth-shemsh were reaping wheat on the plain, and they looked up and saw the Ark, and were glad of the sight.
RF SA1 6:14 Then the cart came to the farm of Joshua the Bethshemshite, and stood there, where there was a great stone, so they broke up the wood of the cart, and offered the heifers as a burnt offering to the EVER-LIVING.
RF SA1 6:15 The Levites, however, took down the Ark of the EVER-LIVING, and the chest which was with it, in which were the things of gold, and placed it upon the great stone, and the people of Beth-shemsh burnt offerings, and sacrificed sacrifices on that day to the EVER-LIVING,
RF SA1 6:16 whilst the five lords of the Philistines looked on, and then returned to Akron.
RF SA1 6:17 These were the tumours of gold which the Philistines returned as an offering to the EVER-LIVING:
For Ashdod one;
For Gazah one;
For Askalon one;
For Gath one;
For Akron one;
RF SA1 6:18 With mice of gold equal to the number of all the cities of the Philishtim, for the Five Lordships, for fortresses, and open villages. And the great stone upon which the Ark of the EVER-LIVING rested can be seen on the farm of Joshua the Bethshemshite to this day.
RF SA1 6:19 (B.C. 1139.) The Ark at Bethshemsh.
But the EVER-LIVING punished some of the inhabitants of Bethshemsh, because they had looked into the Ark; He punished seventy persons, and fifty bullocks.1 So the men murmured among the people, for the EVER-LIVING struck the people with a great stroke.
RF SA1 6:20 The inhabitants of Beth-shemsh consequently asked, "Who is able to stand before the Holy LORD God? and to what purpose has He come up to us?"
RF SA1 6:21 They therefore sent messengers to the people of Krith-Jarim to say, "The Philistines have sent us the Ark of the EVER-LIVING. Come down and take it to yourselves."
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1. This difficult passage has puzzled translators for over 2,000 years. But if we take the ALEF, to mean "bullocks," as it does amongst its other significations, and as I do, the whole difficulty vanishes, for it arose from the love of the marvellous in commentators, or the Greek translators, who fancied that to insert impossible statements in the text added to its grandeur—a plan of amending the Scriptures not extinct yet.—F.F.




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AKJV ROM 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?



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