RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

8 They sent therefore and gathered all the rulers of the
Plishtim to them, and said, What shall we do with the Ark
of the Elohim of Yisrael? And they answered, Let the Ark
of the Elohim of Yisrael be moved to Gat. And they
carried the Ark of the Elohim of Yisrael there.
9 And it was so, that, after they had removed it, the hand
of vuvh was against the city with a very great destruction:
and He smote the men of the city, both small and great,
and they had tumors in their private parts.
10 Therefore they sent the Ark of Elohim to Ekron. And it
came to pass, as the Ark of Elohim came to Ekron, that
the Ekronites shouted out, saying, They have brought here
the Ark of the Elohim of Yisrael to us, to kill us and our
people.
11 So they sent and gathered together all the rulers of the
Plishtim, and said, Send away the Ark of the Elohim of
Yisrael, and let it go again to its own place, that it kill us
not, and kill not our people: for there was a deadly
destruction throughout all the city; the hand of Elohim
was very heavy there.
12 And the men that did not die were smitten with the
tumors: and the cry of the city went up to the shamayim.
6 And the Ark of vuvh was in the country of the Plishtim
seven months.
2 And the Plishtim called for their priests and the
diviners, saying, What shall we do to the Ark of vuvh?
Tell us by what means shall we send it to its place.
3 And they said, If you send away the Ark of the Elohim
of Yisrael, send it not away empty; you shall surely bring
Him a trespass offering: then you shall be healed, and it
shall be known to you why His hand is not turned aside
from you.
4 Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering that
we shall return to Him? They answered, Five golden
tumors, and five golden mice, according to the number of
masters of the Plishtim: for one plague was on all of you,
and on your masters.
5 And you shall make images of your tumors, and images
of your mice that ruin the land; and you shall give tifereth
to the Elohim of Yisrael: perhaps then He will lighten His
hand from off of you, and from off of your elohim, and
from off of your land.
6 Why then do you harden your levim, as the Mitzrim and
Pharaoh hardened their levim? When He had done
wonderful things among them, did they not let the people
go, and they departed?
7 Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milking
cows, which have never been yoked, and tie the cows to
the cart, and bring their calves home away from them:
8 And take the Ark of vuvh, and lay it upon the cart; and
put the jewels of gold, which you return to Him for a
trespass offering, in a chest by the side of it; and send it
away, that it may go.
9 And see, if it goes up to its own border to Beth-
Shemesh, then He has done us this great evil: but if not,
then we shall know that it was not His hand that smote us;
it was an accident that happened to us.
10 And the men did so; and took two milking cows, and
tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:
11 And they laid the Ark of vuvh upon the cart, and the
chest with the mice of gold and the images of their
tumors.
SCHMUEL ALEF - FIRST SAMUEL
- 190 -
12 And the cows went immediately to the way of Beth-
Shemesh, and went along the highway, bellowing as they
went, and turned not aside to the right hand, or to the left;
and the rulers of the Plishtim went after them to the
border of Beth-Shemesh.
13 And those of Beth-Shemesh were reaping their wheat
harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw
the Ark, and rejoiced to see it.
14 And the cart came into the field of Yahoshua, a Beth-
Shemite, and stood there, where there was a great stone:
and they split the wood of the cart, and offered the cows
as a burnt offering to vuvh.
15 And the Lewiym took down the Ark of vuvh, and the
chest that was with it, in which the jewels of gold were,
and put them on the great stone: and the men of Beth-
Shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices
the same day to vuvh.
16 And when the five masters of the Plishtim had seen it,
they returned to Ekron the same day.
17 And these are the golden tumors which the Plishtim
returned for a trespass offering to vuvh; for Ashdod one,
for Azah one, for Ashkelon one, for Gat one, for Ekron
one;
18 And the golden mice, according to the number of all
the cities of the Plishtim belonging to the five masters,
both of fortified cities, and of the country villages, even to
the great stone of Avel, where they set down the Ark of
vuvh: which stone remains to this day in the field of
Yahoshua, the Beth-Shemite.
19 And He smote the men of Beth-Shemesh, because they
had looked into the Ark of vuvh, even He smote of the
people five thousand seventy men: and the people
lamented, because vuvh had smitten many of the people
with a great slaughter.
20 And the men of Beth-Shemesh said, Who is able to
stand before this kadosh vuvh Elohim? And who shall
carry up from us the Ark?
21 And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of
Kiryath-Yearim, saying, The Plishtim have brought again
the Ark of vuvh; come down, and take it to you.
And the men of Kiryath-Yearim came, and got the Ark
of vuvh, and brought it into the bayit of Aviniadav on the
hill, and set apart El-Azar his son to keep the Ark of vuvh.
2 And it came to pass, while the Ark stayed in Kiryath-
Yearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years:
and all Beit Yisrael yearned after vuvh.
3 And Schmuel spoke to all Beit Yisrael, saying, If you
do teshuvah to vuvh with all your levim, then put away
the strange elohim and Ashtaroth from among you, and
prepare your levim for vuvh, and serve Him only: then He
will deliver you out of the hand of the Plishtim.
4 Then the children of Yisrael did put away the Ba’alim
and Ashtaroth, and served vuvh only.
5 And Schmuel said, Gather kol Yisrael 768 7
to Mitzpah,
and I will make tefillah for you to vuvh.
6 And they gathered together to Mitzpah, and drew
mayim, and poured it out before vuvh, and fasted on that
day, and said there, We have sinned against vuvh. And
Schmuel was shophet over the children of Yisrael in
Mitzpah.
7 And when the Plishtim heard that the children of
Yisrael were gathered together to Mitzpah, the rulers of