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Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
1 Samuel 6:9
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Tengoklah baik-baik, jikalau ia menurut jalan ke perhinggaan tanahnya, yaitu ke Bait-Semes, maka nyatalah Ia juga yang sudah mengadakan bala yang besar ini akan kita, tetapi jikalau tiada ia menuju ke sana, maka kita ketahui bukan tangan Dia, yang sudah mengenai kita, melainkan untung nasib kita jua adanya.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Bethshemesh: Joshua 15:10, Joshua 21:16
he: or, it, Amos 3:6
we shall: 1 Samuel 6:3
not his hand: Isaiah 26:11
a chance: 2 Samuel 1:6, Ecclesiastes 9:11, Luke 10:31
Reciprocal: Exodus 8:19 - This is Exodus 9:3 - the hand Joshua 19:22 - Bethshemesh 1 Samuel 25:38 - the Lord 2 Samuel 11:25 - for the sword 2 Kings 1:11 - Again 2 Kings 14:11 - Bethshemesh 2 Chronicles 25:21 - Bethshemesh 2 Chronicles 28:18 - Bethshemesh Job 5:6 - trouble Psalms 32:4 - hand Psalms 38:2 - thy hand Jeremiah 5:12 - have belied Ezekiel 39:21 - and my Mark 11:13 - haply
Cross-References
These are the generations of the heauens and of the earth when they were created, in the day when the Lord God made the earth and the heauens.
This is the booke of the generations of Ada. In the day that God created man, in the lykenesse of God made he hym.
And Henoch walked with God after he begate Methuselah three hundreth yeres, and begate sonnes & daughters.
And Henoch walked with God: and he was no more seene, for God toke him away.
These are the generations of Noah: Noah [was] a iust man, and perfect in his generations: And Noah walked with God.
And of this fashion shalt thou make it: The length of the arke [shalbe] three hundreth cubites, the breadth of it fiftie cubites, & the height of it thirtie cubites.
And the Lord said vnto Noah: come thou and al thy house into ye arke: for thee haue I seen ryghteous before me in this generation.
These are the generations of the sonnes of Noah, Sem, Ham, and Iapheth: and vnto them were chyldren borne after the fludde.
When Abram was ninetie yere olde and nine, the Lorde appeared to hym, and sayde vnto hym: I am the almightie God, walke before me, and be thou perfect.
And he blessed Ioseph, and sayde: God in whose syght my fathers Abraham & Isahac dyd walke, God which hath fedde me al my lyfe long vnto this day,
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And see if it goeth up by the way of its own coast to Bethshemesh,.... The nearest city to the land of the Philistines, which lay on their borders, and the borders of the tribe of Judah,
:-. Now the lords of the Philistines are directed by their priests to observe, whether these kine, that drew the cart on which the ark was, took the direct road to the borders of the land of Israel, and to Bethshemesh, the nearest city that lay on that coast: if so, they might conclude then,
he hath done us this great evil; that is, the God of Israel, whose ark this was; he had inflicted the disease of the emerods on them, and sent such numbers of mice into their fields, that had destroyed the increase of them:
but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that hath smote us; but that there is some other cause of it:
it was a chance that happened to us; and so might have been the case if the ark had never been taken or detained, and to be imputed to fate, or to the stars, or some secret causes they know not of.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Bethshemesh was the first Israelite town they would come to, being on the border of Judah. (See the marginal reference.)
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 1 Samuel 6:9. A chance that happened to us — The word מקרה mikreh, from קרה karah, to meet or coalesce, signifies an event that naturally arises from such concurring causes as, in the order and nature of things, must produce it.
Thus a bad state of the atmosphere, putrid exhalations, bad diet, occasioned by any general scarcity, might have produced the disease in question; and to something of this kind they would attribute it, if the other evidences did not concur. This gives us the proper notion of chance; and shows us that it is a matter as dependent upon the Divine providence, as any thing can be: in short, that these occurrences are parts of the Divine government.
The word chance, though often improperly used to signify such an occurrence as is not under the Divine government, is of itself, not only simple, but expressive; and has nearly the meaning of the Hebrew word: it comes from the French cheoir, or escheoir, to fall out, to occur, to fall to. Hence our law-term escheat, any lands that fall to the lord of the manor by forfeiture, or for want of heirs: i.e., these are the occurrences which naturally throw the lands into the hands of the lord.