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5 Wherefore ye shall make the similitudes of your walled townes, and of townes vnwalled, vnto the
emerods, and the similitudes of your mise that great stone of Abel, whereon they set the Arke of
destroy the land: so ye shall giue glory vnto the Lord: which stone remaineth vnto this day in
the God of Israel, that he may take his hand the fielde of Ioshua the Beth-shemite. 19 And hee
from you, and from your gods, and from your smote of the men of Beth-shemesh, because they
land. 6 Wherefore then should ye harden your had looked in the Arke of the Lord: he slew euen
among the people fiftie thousand men and three
hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened score and ten men. and the people lamented,
their hearts? when he wrought wonderfully because the Lord had slaine the people with so
among them, did they not let them goe, and they great a slaughter. 20 Wherefore the men of Beth-
departed? Now therefore make a new cart, and shemesh said, Who is able to stand before this
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take two milch kine, on whome there hath come holy Lord God? and to whom shall he go from vs?
no yoke: and tye the kine to the cart, and bring 21
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the calues home from them. Then take the Arke And they sent messengers to the inhabitans
of the Lord, and set it vpon the cart, and put the of Kiriath-iearim, saying, The Philistims haue
iewels of gold which ye giue it for a sinne offering brought againe the Arke of the Lord: come ye
in a coffer by the side thereof, and send it away, downe and take it vp to you.
that it may go. 9 And take heede, if it goe vp by
the way of his owne coast to Beth-shemesh, it is 7
he that did vs this great euill: but if not, we shall 1 Then the men of Kiriath-iearim came, and
know then, that it is not his hand that smote vs, tooke vp the Arke of the Lord, and brought it
but it was a chance that happened vs. 10 And the into the house of Abinadab in the hill: and they
men did so: for they tooke two kine that gaue sanctified Eleazar his sonne, to keepe the Arke of
milke, and tied them to the cart, and shut the the Lord. (For while the Arke abode in Kiriath-
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calues at home. 11 So they set the Arke of the Lord iearim, the time was long, for it was twentie
vpon the cart, and the coffer with the mise of yeeres) and al the house of Israel lamented after
golde, and with the similitudes of their emerods. ye Lord. Then Samuel spake vnto all the house
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12 And the kine went the streight way to Beth- of Israel, saying, If ye be come againe vnto the
shemesh, and kept one path and lowed as they Lord with all your heart, put away the strange
went, and turned neither to the right hand nor gods from among you, and Ashtaroth, and direct
to the left: also the Princes of the Philistims went your hearts vnto the Lord, and serue him only,
after them, vnto the borders of Beth-shemesh.
13 Nowe they of Beth-shemesh were reaping their and he shall deliuer you out of the hand of ye
wheate haruest in the valley, and they lift vp Philistims. 4 Then the children of Israel did put
their eyes, and spied the Arke, and reioyced when away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and serued the Lord
they sawe it. 14 And the cart came into the fielde onely. 5 And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to
of Ioshua a Beth-shemite, and stood still there. Mizpeh, and I will pray for you vnto the Lord.
There was also a great stone, and they claue 6 And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and
the wood of the cart, and offered the kine for a drewe water and powred it out before the Lord,
burnt offring vnto the Lord. 15 And the Leuites and fasted the same day, and sayd there, We
tooke downe the Arke of the Lord, and the coffer haue sinned against the Lord. And Samuel iudged
that was with it, wherein the iewels of golde the children of Israel in Mizpeh. 7 When the
were, and put them on the great stone, and the Philistims heard that the children of Israel were
men of Beth-shemesh offred burnt offring, and gathered together to Mizpeh, the princes of the
sacrificed sacrifices that same day vnto the Lord. Philistims went vp against Israel: and when the
16 And when the fiue Princes of ye Philistims had children of Israel heard that, they were afraide
seene it, they returned to Ekron the same day. of the Philistims. 8 And the children of Israel
17 So these are the golden emerods, which the sayd to Samuel, Cease not to crie vnto the Lord
Philistims gaue for a sinne offering to the Lord: our God for vs, that hee may saue vs out of the
for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for hand of the Philistims. 9 Then Samuel tooke a
Gath one, and for Ekron one, 18 And golden mise, sucking lambe, and offered it all together for a
according to the number of all the cities of the burnt offering vnto the Lord, and Samuel cryed
Philistims, belonging to the fiue princes, both of vnto the Lord for Israel, and the Lord heard him.
10 And as Samuel offered the burnt offering, the