The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament. Translated according to the Ebrue and Greke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languges. VVith moste profitable annotations vpon all the hard places, and other things of great importance as may appeare in the epistle to the reader

CHAP. VI.

1 The time that the Arke was with the Philistims whiche they sent againe with a gift. 12 It commeth to Beth∣shémesh. 17 The Philistims offer golden emerods. 19 The men of Beth-shémesh are stricken for loking into the Arke.

1 SO the Arke of the Lord was in the coun∣trey of the Philistimsa 1.1 seuen monethes.

2 And the Philistims called the Priestes and the soth sayers, saying What shal we do with the Arke of the Lord? tel vs where with we shall send it home againe?

3 And they said, If you send away the Arke of the God of Israél, send it not away emptie, but giue vnto itb 1.2 a sinne offring: then shal ye be healed, and it shalbe knowē to you, why his hand departeth not from you.

4 Then said they, What shalbe the sinne of∣fring, which we shal giue vnto it? And they answered, Fiue golden emerods & fiue gol∣den mice, according to the nomber of the Princes of the Philistims: for one plague (was) on you all, and on your princes.

5 Wherefore ye shall make the similitudes of your emerods, and the similitudes of your mice that destroye the land: so ye shall giue glorie vnto the God of Israél, that he may take his hand from you, & from yourc 1.3 gods and from your land.

6 Wherefore then shulde ye harden your heartes, as the Egyptians and Pharaôh har∣dened their heartes, when he wroght won∣derfully among them, * did they not let thē* 1.4 go, and they departed?

7 Now therefore make a newe carte, and take two melche kine, on whome there hathe come no yoke: and tye the kine to the carte and bring the calues home from them.

8 Then take the Arke of the Lord, and set it vpon the carte, and put thed 1.5 iewels of golde whiche ye giue it for a sinne offring in a cof∣fer by the side thereof, and send it away, that it may go.

9 And take hede, if it go vp by the way of his owne coast to Beth-shémesh, it ise 1.6 he that did vs this greate euil: but if not, we shall knowe then, that it is not his hād that smote vs, (but) it was af 1.7 chance that happened vs.

10 And the men did so: for they toke two kine that gaue milke, and tyed them to the carte and shut the calues at home.

11 So they set the Arke of the LORD vpon the carte, and the coffer with the mice of golde, and with the similitudes of their emerods.

12 And the kine wēt the streight way to Beth∣shémesh, and kept one path, and lowed as they went, and turned nether to the right hand nor to the left: also the princes of the Philistims went afterg 1.8 thē, vnto the borders of Beth-shémesh.

13 Now they of Beth-shémesh were reaping their wheat haruest in the valley, and they lift vp their eyes, and spyed the Arke, and reioyced when they sawe it.

14 ¶ And the carte came into the fielde of Ioshúa a Bethshemite, and stode stil there, there was also a great stone, andh 1.9 they claue the wood of the carte and offred the kine for a burnt offring vnto the Lord.

15 And the Leuites toke downe the Arke of the Lord, and the coffer that was with it, whe∣rein the iewels of golde were, and put them on the great stone, and the men of Beth-shé∣mesh offred burnt offring, and sacrificed sa∣crifices that same day vnto the Lord.

16 And when the fiue princes of the Phili∣stims had sene it, they returned to Ekrón the same day.

17 ¶ So these are the golden emerods, whiche the Philistims gaue for a sinne offring to the Lorde: fori 1.10 Ashdód one, for Gazá one, for Askelón one, for Gath one, (and) for Ekrón one.

18 And golden mice, according to the nomber of all the cities of the Philistims, (belōging) to the fiue princes, bothe of walled townes and of townes vnwalled, vnto the greate (stone) of Abél, whereó thei set the Arke of* 1.11 the Lord: (which stone remaineth) vnto this day in the field of Ioshua the Beth-shemite.

19 And he smote of the men of Beth-shémesh because theyk 1.12 had loked in the Arke of the Lord: he slewe euen among the people fiftie thousand men and thre score and ten men & the people lamēted, because the Lord had slaine the people with so great a slaughter.* 1.13

20 Wherefore the men of Beth-shémesh said who is able to stand before this holy Lorde God? and to whome shall he go from vs?

21 And they sent messengers to the inhabi∣tants of Kyriath-iearim, saying, The Phili∣stims haue broght againe the Arke of the LORD: come ye downe (and) take it vp to you.

Notes

• a 1.1

  Thei thoght by continuance of time the plague wolde haue cea∣sed and so wolde haue kept the Arke stil.
• b 1.2

  The idolaters confesse there is a true God, who punisheth sinne iustely.
• c 1.3

  This is 〈◊〉〈◊〉 iudgement vpon the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 that knowig the true God they wor∣ship him not a right.
• * 1.4

  Exod. 12. 31.
• d 1.5

  Meaning the goldē emerods & the golden mice.
• e 1.6

  The God of Israél.
• f 1.7

  The wicked at∣tribute almost 〈◊〉〈◊〉 thing to fortune and chance, whe∣reasin dede there is nothyng done without Gods 〈◊〉〈◊〉 uidence & decree
• g 1.8

  For the triall of the 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• h 1.9

  To wit, themê of Bethshémesh, whiche were Israelites.
• i 1.10

  These were the fiue principal ci∣ties of the Phili∣stims which were not al conquered vnto the time of Dauid.
• * 1.11

  "Or, the plaine, or lamentacion.
• k 1.12

  For it was not lauful to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ether to touch or to se it, saue one∣ly to Aaron and his sonnes.
• * 1.13

  Nomb. 4. 15. & 〈◊〉〈◊〉.