Hello, and welcome
to His words are life.
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I'm Kelly Mowrer, and today
we're reading in 1st Samuel,
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about God and how he spoke to
and through the prophet Samuel.
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Before we pick up
the story, let's pray.
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Dear God, thank you for all
the ways that you have spoken
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to your people
down through history.
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And now please come be
with us and speak to our hearts;
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so that your words
may bring us abundant life
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and bear abundant fruit. We
love you so much and thank you
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for loving us. Amen.
We're picking up in 1st Samuel
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chapter 3. And as the young boy
serving in the temple under Eli,
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Samuel, one night hears who
he thinks is Eli calling to him
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and twice, so far, he has
run to Eli, saying, Here am I.
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And Eli had told him, I
haven't been calling you.
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And now we pick up in chapter
three, beginning with verse 7,
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this is the King James Version.
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Now Samuel did not yet know
the Lord, neither was the word
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of the Lord yet revealed unto
him. And the Lord called Samuel
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again the third time.
And he arose and went to Eli,
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and said, Here am I;
for thou didst call me.
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And Eli perceived that
the Lord had called the child.
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Therefore Eli said unto Samuel,
Go, lie down: and it shall be,
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if he call thee, that
thou shalt say, Speak, Lord;
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for thy servant heareth.
So Samuel went and lay down
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in his place. And the Lord
came, and stood, and called
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as at other times, Samuel,
Samuel. Then Samuel answered,
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Speak, for thy servant heareth.
And the Lord said to Samuel,
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Behold, I will do a thing in
Israel, at which both the ears
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of every one that heareth
it shall tingle. In that day,
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I will perform against Eli
all things which I have spoken
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concerning his house: when I
begin, I will also make an end.
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For I have told him that I
will judge his house for ever
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for the iniquity which
he knoweth. Because his sons
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made themselves vile,
and he restrained them not.
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And therefore I have
sworn unto the house of Eli,
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that the iniquity of
Eli's house shall not be purged
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with sacrifice
nor offering for ever.
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And Samuel lay until the
morning and opened the doors
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of the house of the Lord.
And Samuel feared to shew Eli
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the vision. Then Eli
called Samuel, and said,
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Samuel, my son. And he answered,
Here am I. And he said,
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What is the thing that the Lord
hath said unto thee? I pray thee
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hide it not from me: God
do so to thee, and more also,
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if thou hide anything from me
of all the things that he said
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unto thee. And Samuel told
him every whit, and hid nothing
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from him. And he said, It is the
Lord: let him do what seemeth
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him good. And Samuel
grew, and the Lord was with him,
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and did let none of his
words fall to the ground.
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And all Israel from Dan even
to Beersheba knew that Samuel
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was established to be a prophet
of the Lord. And the Lord
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appeared again in Shiloh:
for the Lord revealed himself to
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Samuel in Shiloh by
the word of the Lord.
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We're continuing in
1st Samuel, chapter 4.
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This is the King James Version.
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And the word of Samuel came to
all Israel. Now Israel went out
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against the Philistines
to battle and pitched beside
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Ebenezer: and the
Philistines pitched in Aphek.
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And the Philistines put them
selves in array against Israel
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and when they joined battle,
Israel was smitten before the
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Philistines: and they
slew of the army in the field
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about 4,000 men. And when the
people were come into the camp,
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the elders of Israel
said, Wherefore hath the Lord
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smitten us today before
the Philistines? Let us fetch
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the ark of the covenant of
the Lord out of Shiloh unto us,
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that, when it cometh among us,
it may save us out of the hand
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of our enemies. So the people
sent to Shiloh, that they might
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bring from thence the ark of the
covenant of the Lord of hosts
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which dwelleth between the
cherubins: and the two sons
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of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas,
were there with the ark
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of the covenant of God. And
when the ark of the covenant of
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the Lord came into the camp,
all Israel shouted with a great
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shout, so that the earth rang
again. And when the Philistines
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heard the noise of the
shout, they said, What meaneth
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the noise of this great shout
in the camp of the Hebrews?
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And they understood that the
ark of the Lord was come into
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the camp. And the Philistines
were afraid, for they said,
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God is come into the camp.
And they said, Woe unto us!
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for there hath not been such
a thing heretofore. Woe unto us!
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Who shall deliver us out of
the hand of these mighty Gods?
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These are the Gods that
smote the Egyptians with all the
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plagues in the wilderness.
Be strong, and quit yourselves
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like men, O ye Philistines,
that ye be not servants
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unto the Hebrews, as they have
been to you: quit yourselves
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like men, and fight. And the
Philistines fought, and Israel
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was smitten, and they
fled every man into his tent:
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and there was a very great
slaughter; for there fell of
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Israel 30,000 footmen.
And the ark of God was taken;
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and the two sons of Eli,
Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.
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And there ran a man of Benjamin
out of the army, and came to
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Shiloh the same day with
his clothes rent, and with earth
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upon his head. And when he
came, lo, Eli sat upon a seat
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by the wayside watching:
for for his heart trembled
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for the ark of God. And
when the man came into the city,
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and old it, all the city cried
out. And when Eli heard the
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noise of the crying, he said,
What meaneth the noise of this
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tumult? And the man came
in hastily, and told Eli.
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Now Eli was ninety and eight
years old; and his eyes were dim
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that he could not see. And
the man said unto Eli, I am he
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that came out of the army, and
I fled today out of the army.
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And he said, What is there
done, my son? And the messenger
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answered and said, Israel
is fled before the Philistines,
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and there hath been also a
great slaughter among the people
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and thy two sons also,
Hophni and Phinehas, are dead,
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and the ark of God is taken. And
it came to pass, when he made
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mention of the ark of God,
that he fell from off the seat
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backward by the side of
the gate, and his neck brake
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and he died: for he
was an old man, and heavy.
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And he had judged Israel forty
years. And his daughter in law,
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Phinehas' wife, was with
child, near to be delivered:
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and when she heard the tidings
that the ark of God was taken,
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and that her father in
law and her husband were dead,
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she bowed herself and travailed;
for her pains came upon her.
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And about the time of her death
the women that stood by her
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said unto her, Fear not;
for thou hast borne a son.
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But she answered not,
neither did she regard it.
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And she named the child Ichabod,
saying, The glory is departed
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from Israel: because the ark
of God was taken, and because of
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her father in law and
her husband. And she said,
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The glory is departed
from Israel: for the ark of God
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is taken. - Continuing
in 1st Samuel, chapter 5,
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This is the King James Version.
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And the Philistines took the
ark of God and brought it from
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Ebenezer unto Ashdod. When the
Philistines took the ark of God,
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they brought it into the house
of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.
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And when they of Ashdod arose
early on the morrow, behold,
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Dagon was fallen upon his
face to the earth before the ark
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of the Lord. And they took
Dagon, and set him in his place
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again. And when they arose
early on the morrow morning,
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behold, Dagon was fallen upon
his face to the ground before
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the ark of the Lord; and the
head of Dagon and both the palms
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of his hands were cut off upon
the threshold; only the stump of
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of Dagon was left to him.
Therefore neither the priests
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of Dagon, nor any that
come into Dagon's house,
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tread on the threshold of
Dagon in Ashdod unto this day.
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But the had of the Lord
was heavy upon them of Ashdod,
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and he destroyed them,
and smote them with emerods,
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even Ashdod and the coasts
thereof. And when the men of
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Ashdod saw that it was so,
they said, The ark of the God of
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Israel shall not abide with us,
for his hand is sore upon us,
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and upon Dagon our god. And they
sent therefore and gathered all
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the lords of the Philistines
unto them and said, What shall
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we do with the ark of the God
of Israel? And they answered,
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Let the ark of the God of Israel
be carried about unto Gath.
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And they carried the ark of
the God of Israel about thither.
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And it was so that after
they had carried it about,
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the hand of the Lord was against
the city with a very great
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destruction: and he smote
the men of the city, both small
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and great, and they had
emerods in their secret parts.
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Therefore they sent
the ark of God to Ekron.
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And it came to pass, as
the ark of God came to Ekron,
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that the Ekronites cried
out, saying, They have brought
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about the ark of the God
of Israel to us, to slay us
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and our people. So they
sent and gathered together
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all the lords of the
Philistines, and said,
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Send away the ark of the God
of Israel, and let it go again
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to his own place, that it
slay us not, and our people:
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for there was a deadly
destruction throughout all the
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city; the hand of God was
very heavy there. And the men
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that died not were
smitten with the emerods:
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and the cry of the
city went up to heaven.
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We're continuing in
1st Samuel, chapter six.
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And the ark of the lord was in
the country of the Philistines
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seven months. And
the Philistines called
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for the priests and the
diviners, saying, What shall
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we do to the ark of the Lord?
tells us wherewith we shall
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sent it to his place. And they
said, If ye send away the ark
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of the God of Israel, send
it not empty; but in any wise
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return him a trespass offering:
then ye shall be healed,
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and it shall be known to
you, why his hand is not removed
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from you. Then said they, What
shall be the trespass offering
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which we shall return to him?
They answered, 5 golden emerods,
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and 5 golden mice, according
to the number of the lords
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of the Philistines: for
one plague was on you all,
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and on your lords.
Wherefore ye shall make images
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of your emerods, and images
of your mice that mar the land;
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and ye shall give glory unto the
God of Israel: peradventrure he
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will lighten his hand from
off you, and from off your gods,
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and from off your
land. Wherefore then do ye
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harden you hearts, as
the Egyptians and Pharaoh
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hardened their hearts?
when he had wrought wonderfully
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among them, did they not let
the people go and they departed?
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Now therefore make a new
cart, and take two milch kine,
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on which there hath come
no yoke, and tie the kine
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to the cart, and bring
their calves home from them:
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And take the ark of the
Lord, and lay it upon the cart:
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and put the jewels of
gold, which ye return him
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for a trespass offering, in
a coffer by the side thereof;
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and sent it away, that it
may go. And see, if it goeth up
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by the way of his own coast
to Bethshemesh, then he hath
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done us this great evil:
but if not, then we shall know
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that it is not his hand
that smote us: it was a chance
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that happened to us. And the men
did so; and took 2 milch kine,
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and tied them to the cart, and
shut up their calves at home:
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And they laid the ark
of the Lord upon the cart,
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and the coffer with the mice
of gold and the images of their
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emerods. And the kine took
the straight way to the way of
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Bethshemesh. And went along the
highway, lowing as they went,
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and turned not aside to
the right hand or to the left;
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and the lords of the Philistines
went after them unto the border
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of Bethshemesh. And they
of Bethshemesh were reaping
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their wheat harvest in
the valley: and they lifted up
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their eyes, and saw the ark, and
rejoiced to see it. And the cart
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came into the field of Joshua,
a Bethshemite, and stood there,
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where there was a great stone:
and they clave the wood of
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the cart and offered the kine
a burnt offering unto the Lord.
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And the Levites took down the
ark of the Lord, and the coffer
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that was with it, wherein the
jewels of gold were and put them
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on the great stone: and
the men of Bethshemesh offered
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burnt offerings and sacrificed
sacrifices the same day
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unto the Lord. And when the
five lords of the Philistines
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had seen it, they
returned to Ekron the same day.
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And these are the golden emerods
which the Philistines returned
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for a trespass offering
unto the Lord; for Ashdod one,
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for Gaza one, for Askelon one,
for Gath one, for Ekron one;
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And the golden mice, according
to the number of all the cities
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of the Philistines
belonging to the five lords,
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both of fenced cities
and of country villages,
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even unto the great stone
of Abel, whereon they set down
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the ark of the Lord: which
stone remaineth unto this day
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in the field of
Joshua, the Bethshemite.
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And he smote the men of
Bethshemesh, because they had
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looked into the ark of
the Lord, even he smote
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of the people 50,000
and threescore and ten men:
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and the people lamented, because
the Lord had smitten many of
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the people with
a great slaughter.
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Thank you for joining with me
today to read the word of God.
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Until next time, God will
keep us all through His love,
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and his mercy. Goodbye.
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