1 Samuel 6:15

Contextual Overview

¹⁰The men did this: They took two milk cows, hitched them to the cart, and confined their calves in the pen. ¹⁰ The men did so, and took two milk cattle, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home; ¹⁰ And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home: ¹⁰ So the men did so; they took two milking cows and harnessed them to the utility cart, but they shut up their calves in the stall. ¹⁰ The men did so, and took two milk cows and yoked them to the cart and shut up their calves at home. ¹⁰ The Philistines did what the priests and magicians said. They took two cows that had just had calves and hitched them to the cart, but they kept their calves at home. ¹⁰ So the men did as instructed. They took two cows that had calves and harnessed them to a cart; they also removed their calves to their stalls. ¹⁰And the men did so, and took two milk cows and hitched them to the cart, and corralled their calves at home. ¹⁰ Then the men did so: they took two milk cows and hitched them to the cart, and shut in their calves at home. ¹⁰ And the men did so: for they tooke two kine that gaue milke, and tied them to the cart, and shut the calues at home.

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Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 7:9 - a sucking

Cross-References

Genesis 7:20
The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered.

Genesis 7:20
Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.

Genesis 7:20
The waters swelled fifteen cubits above the mountains, covering them.

Genesis 7:20
It continued to rise until it was more than twenty feet above the mountains.

Genesis 7:20
The waters rose more than twenty feet above the mountains.

Genesis 7:20
[In fact] the waters became fifteen cubits higher [than the highest ground], and the mountains were covered.

Genesis 7:20
The water prevailed fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.

Genesis 7:20
Fifteene cubites vpwarde did the waters preuaile, when the mountaines were couered.

Genesis 7:20
The water prevailed fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.

Genesis 7:20
the water covered the mountains by more than twenty-two-and-a-half feet.

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.