1 Samuel 6:18

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.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the five lords: 1 Samuel 6:16, Joshua 13:3

great stone of: or, great stone

Reciprocal: Genesis 50:11 - Abelmizraim Judges 3:3 - five lords 1 Samuel 6:4 - Five golden Isaiah 14:29 - whole

Cross-References

Genesis 6:9
This is the history of the generations of Noach. Noach was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noach walked with God.

Genesis 6:9
These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.

Genesis 6:9
These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, without defect in his generations. Noah walked with God.

Genesis 6:9
This is the family history of Noah. Noah was a good man, the most innocent man of his time, and he walked with God.

Genesis 6:9
This is the account of Noah. Noah was a godly man; he was blameless among his contemporaries. He walked with God.

Genesis 6:9
These are the records of the generations (family history) of Noah. Noah was a righteous man [one who was just and had right standing with God], blameless in his [evil] generation; Noah walked (lived) [in habitual fellowship] with God.

Genesis 6:9
These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.

Genesis 6:9
These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a iust and vpright man in his time: and Noah walked with God.

Genesis 6:9
These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among those in his generations; Noah walked with God.

Genesis 6:9
and this is the story about him. Noah was the only person who lived right and obeyed God.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords,.... That is, as many golden mice as there were cities under the jurisdiction of the five lords, which are the same before mentioned:

both of fenced cities and of country villages; walled and unwalled towns; it seems by this, as it was but reasonable it should be, that the several villages adjacent and belonging to the five principal cities contributed their part towards the expense of the five golden emerods, and five golden mice, since they were afflicted both in their persons, and especially in their fields, as well as those in the cities; though Kimchi and others think that the country villages sent each of them a golden emerod, and a golden mouse, fearing the presents of the five cities would not serve for them; and therefore, though the priests and diviners only ordered five of each, according to the number of the principal cities, yet they of themselves sent more: all the country villages that reached

even unto the great stone of Abel; the Targum is,

"unto the great stone'';

and so the Septuagint version, reading Eben instead of Ebal; or "lamed" is put for "nun", as "nun" for "lamed", Nehemiah 13:7. The Vulgate Latin version is unto great Abel, taking it for a city, as does Procopius Gazaeus, who calls it the great city Abel, through which they carried the ark of the Lord; so Jerom y, who takes it to be the same with Bethshemesh, called Abel because of the mourning in it for the men of Bethshemesh after slain; or to distinguish it from another Abel is called "great", 2 Samuel 20:15 but it seems plainly to be the same with the great stone, 1 Samuel 6:14, here called Eben Gedolah, here Abel Gedolah, by the change of a letter, having its latter name by anticipation from the great mourning hereafter made, next mentioned:

whereon they set down the ark of the Lord; when it was taken out of the cart, as also the coffer in which were the presents, 1 Samuel 6:15,

which: stone remaineth unto this day in the field of Joshua the Bethshemite: the supplement, which stone remaineth, seems necessary, lest it should be thought the ark remained there unto the time of the writing this book, which was not true, for it was soon after this fetched to Kirjathjearim; but the stone remained, and might be seen; and posterity in following times were told that was the stone on which the ark was put when it returned to Israel.

y Trad. Heb. ut supra. (Hieron. Trad. Heb. in lib. Reg. fol. 75. D.)

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The great stone of Abel ... - Probably so called from the “lamentation” described in 1 Samuel 6:19.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 6:18. And the golden mice — The desolation that had been made through the land by these animals had excited a general concern; and it appears from the text, that all the cities of the Philistines, as well fended as without walls, sent a golden mouse as a trespass-offering.

Remaineth unto this day — Some think the ark is intended, which continued on the stone of Abel for some considerable time after it was placed there; and that the memoranda from which this book was afterwards compiled, were made before it was removed: but it is not likely that it remained any time exposed in the open field. Therefore it is most natural to suppose that it is the stone of Abel which is here intended; and so our translators have understood the place, and have used supplementary words to express this sentiment: "Which stone remaineth unto this day."