1 Samuël 6:13

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

De lieden van Beth-sjemes waren bezig met den tarweoogst in de vallei. Zij sloegen de ogen op, zagen de ark en gingen blijde haar tegemoet.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
De Bethsimsieten nu maaiden juist den tarweoogst in het dal, en hieven hunne ogen op en zagen de ark, en verbljdden zich haar te zien.

Staten Vertaling
En die van Beth-semes maaiden den tarweoogst in het dal, en als zij hun ogen ophieven, zagen zij de ark en verblijdden zich, als zij die zagen.

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Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they of Bethshemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley,.... Which began at Pentecost, in the month Sivan, about our May; so that there were many people in the fields, who were eyewitnesses of this wonderful event:

and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it; for though the ark while in the tabernacle was only seen by the high priest, when he went into the holy of holies; yet this having been brought out from thence, and exposed in the camp of Israel, some of this place very probably were there at that time, and had seen it, and knew it again by its form and splendour; and which gave them great pleasure to behold, which had been taken, and had been so long in the hand of the enemy, and the people of Israel deprived of it; which was the symbol of the divine Presence among them, and now restored to them again; and in this wonderful way, without seeking for it, without going to war on account of it, without paying a ransom for it; and was brought to them in a cart drawn by cattle without a driver, the lords of the Philistines with a large retinue following it. This is to be understood not of their looking "into" it, as they afterwards did, and were punished, as Kimchi; but of their looking "on" it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The whole population was in the field. The harvest work was suspended in an instant, and all the workmen ran to where the ark was.