撒母耳记上 6:1~6:16
送回约柜
1耶/和/华的约柜在非利士人之地七个月。
2非利士人将祭司和占卜的聚了来，问他们说：「我们向耶/和/华的约柜应当怎样行？请指示我们用何法将约柜送回原处。」
3他们说：「若要将以色列 SHEN 的约柜送回去，不可空空地送去，必要给他献赔罪的礼物，然后你们可得痊愈，并知道他的手为何不离开你们。」
4非利士人说：「应当用什么献为赔罪的礼物呢？」他们回答说：「当照非利士首领的数目，用五个金痔疮，五个金老鼠，因为在你们众人和你们首领的身上都是一样的灾。
5所以当制造你们痔疮的像和毁坏你们田地老鼠的像，并要归荣耀给以色列的 SHEN ，或者他向你们和你们的 SHEN ，并你们的田地，把手放轻些。
6你们为何硬着心像埃及人和法老一样呢？ SHEN 在埃及人中间行奇事，埃及人岂不释放以色列人，他们就去了吗？
7现在你们应当造一辆新车，将两只未曾负轭有乳的母牛套在车上，使牛犊回家去，离开母牛。
8把耶/和/华的约柜放在车上，将所献赔罪的金物装在匣子里，放在柜旁，将柜送去。
9你们要看看：车若直行以色列的境界到伯‧示麦去，这大灾就是耶/和/华降在我们身上的；若不然，便可以知道不是他的手击打我们，是我们偶然遇见的。」
10 非利士人就这样行：将两只有乳的母牛套在车上，将牛犊关在家里,
11把耶/和/华的约柜和装金老鼠并金痔疮像的匣子都放在车上。
12牛直行大道，往伯‧示麦去，一面走一面叫，不偏左右。非利士的首领跟在后面，直到伯‧示麦的境界。
13伯‧示麦人正在平原收割麦子，举目看见约柜，就欢喜了。
14车到了伯‧示麦人约书亚的田间，就站住了。在那里有一块大磐石，他们把车劈了，将两只母牛献给耶/和/华为燔祭。
15利未人将耶/和/华的约柜和装金物的匣子拿下来，放在大磐石上。当日伯‧示麦人将燔祭和平安祭献给耶/和/华。
16非利士人的五个首领看见，当日就回以革伦去了。
The Ark Returned to Israel
1When the ark of the Lord had been in Philistine territory seven months,
2the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners and said, “What shall we do with the ark of the Lord? Tell us how we should send it back to its place.”
3They answered, “If you return the ark of the god of Israel, do not send it back to him without a gift; by all means send a guilt offering to him. Then you will be healed, and you will know why his hand has not been lifted from you.”
4The Philistines asked, “What guilt offering should we send to him?” They replied, “Five gold tumors and five gold rats, according to the number of the Philistine rulers, because the same plague has struck both you and your rulers.
5Make models of the tumors and of the rats that are destroying the country, and give glory to Israel’s god. Perhaps he will lift his hand from you and your gods and your land.
6Why do you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh did? When Israel’s god dealt harshly with them, did they not send the Israelites out so they could go on their way?
7“Now then, get a new cart ready, with two cows that have calved and have never been yoked. Hitch the cows to the cart, but take their calves away and pen them up.
8Take the ark of the Lord and put it on the cart, and in a chest beside it put the gold objects you are sending back to him as a guilt offering. Send it on its way,
9but keep watching it. If it goes up to its own territory, toward Beth Shemesh, then the Lord has brought this great disaster on us. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not his hand that struck us but that it happened to us by chance.”
10So they did this. They took two such cows and hitched them to the cart and penned up their calves.
11They placed the ark of the Lord on the cart and along with it the chest containing the gold rats and the models of the tumors.
12Then the cows went straight up toward Beth Shemesh, keeping on the road and lowing all the way; they did not turn to the right or to the left. The rulers of the Philistines followed them as far as the border of Beth Shemesh.
13Now the people of Beth Shemesh were harvesting their wheat in the valley, and when they looked up and saw the ark, they rejoiced at the sight.
14The cart came to the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh, and there it stopped beside a large rock. The people chopped up the wood of the cart and sacrificed the cows as a burnt offering to the Lord.
15The Levites took down the ark of the Lord, together with the chest containing the gold objects, and placed them on the large rock. On that day the people of Beth Shemesh offered burnt offerings and made sacrifices to the Lord.
16The five rulers of the Philistines saw all this and then returned that same day to Ekron.
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