1 Samuel 6:15

Louis Segond

Les Lévites descendirent l'arche de l'Eternel, et le coffre qui était à côté d'elle et qui contenait les objets d'or; et ils posèrent le tout sur la grande pierre. Les gens de Beth-Schémesch offrirent en ce jour des holocaustes et des sacrifices à l'Eternel.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Et les L�vites descendirent l'arche de l'�ternel, et le coffret qui �tait aupr�s, dans lequel �taient les ouvrages d'or, et ils les mirent sur la grande pierre. En ce jour, ceux de Beth-Sh�mesh offrirent des holocaustes et des sacrifices � l'�ternel.

Darby's French Translation
Et les L�vites descendirent l'arche de l'�ternel, et le coffret qui �tait aupr�s, dans lequel �taient les objets d'or, et ils les mirent sur la grande pierre. Et les hommes de Beth-Sh�mesh offrirent en ce jour des holocaustes et sacrifi�rent des sacrifices � l'�ternel.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Car les L�vites descendirent l'Arche de l'Eternel, et le petit coffre qui [�tait] aupr�s, dans lequel �taient les ouvrages d'or, et les mirent sur cette grande pierre. En ce m�me jour ceux de Beth-s�mes offrirent des holocaustes et sacrifi�rent des sacrifices � l'Eternel.

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Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Levites took down the ark of the Lord,.... Or, "had took it down" x; for this, though here related, was done as soon as the ark came into the field, or quickly after, and before the burnt offering could be made, which was burnt with the wood of the cart; and though the persons that took it down are called Levites, they were priests, who were of the tribe of Levi; for it was the work of the priests to take it down, though the Levites then might carry it; and it is remarkable that Bethshemesh was given to the Kohathite Levites, whose business it was to carry the ark on their shoulders; see

Joshua 21:10

and the coffer that was with it, wherein the jewels of gold were; the purse or bag in which were the five golden mice, and the five golden emerods:

and put them on the great stone; both the ark and the coffer, by which the cart stood, and on which the sacrifice of burnt offering was probably offered:

and the men of Bethshemesh offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed sacrifices, the same day unto the Lord; besides the burnt offering of the two cows, they offered others to testify their thankfulness for the return of the ark; and also peace offerings, on which they feasted with one another, to express their greater joy.

x הורידו "deposuerant", Meudoza; so Pool.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The word “Levites” here probably means priests Exodus 4:14, sons of Levi, since Bethshemesh was one of the cities of the priests Joshua 21:13-16. The burnt offering of the kine was not in any sense the offering of the men of Bethshemesh, but rather of the Philistine lords to whom the cart and the kine belonged. But the Bethshemites themselves, in token of their gratitude for such a signal mercy, now offered both burnt offerings and sacrifices, probably peace offerings, and doubtless feasted together with great joy and gladness (see 1 Kings 8:62-66; Ezra 6:16-17). There is nothing whatever in the text to indicate that these sacrifices were offered otherwise than in the appointed way by the priests.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 6:15. The Levites took down — It appears there were some of the tribe of Levi among the people of Beth-shemesh: to them appertained the service of the tabernacle.