{"id":2278,"date":"2022-05-07T09:45:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T09:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/temtube.com\/?p=2278"},"modified":"2022-05-07T09:45:21","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T09:45:21","slug":"1-samuel-6-gods-chest-is-returned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/temtube.com\/?p=2278","title":{"rendered":"1 Samuel 6 God&#8217;s chest is returned"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-subscribe-bar-container\"><div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"1 Samuel 6 God&#039;s chest is returned\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bn9BRePvw_4?start=14&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Bn9BRePvw_4&amp;t=14s\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Bn9BRePvw_4&amp;t=14s<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"youtube-subscribe-bar\" style=\"color: #ffffff;background-color: #1b1b1b;\">\n\t\t\t<div>Please consider subscribing to my YouTube Channel<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t<iframe\n\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscribe_embed?usegapi=1&amp;channelid=UCAxkC8h9g4fhxldTECUgIsg&amp;layout=default&amp;theme=default&amp;count=default&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Ftemtube.com%2F\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\t<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1The LORD\u2019s chest was in Philistine territory for seven months. 2The Philistines called for the priests and the diviners. \u201cWhat should we do with the LORD\u2019s chest?\u201d they asked. \u201cTell us how we should send it back to its own home.\u201d 3They replied, \u201cIf you are returning the chest of Israel\u2019s God, don\u2019t send it back empty, but be sure to return a guilt offering to him. Then you will be healed, and it will become clear to you why God\u2019s hand hasn\u2019t left you alone.\u201d 4\u201cWhat compensation offering should we return to him?\u201d they asked. The priests and diviners replied: \u201cFive gold tumors and five gold mice, matching the number of the Philistine rulers, because the same plague came on all of you and your rulers. 5You must make images of your tumors and the mice that have devastated the land. Honor Israel\u2019s God. Perhaps he will lighten the weight of his hand on you, your gods, and your land. 6Why be stubborn like the Egyptians and Pharaoh? After God had dealt harshly with them, didn\u2019t they send the Israelites on their way? 7So get a new cart ready along with two nursing cows that have never been yoked before. Harness the cows to the cart, but take any of their calves that are following back home. 8Next, take the LORD\u2019s chest and put it in the cart. Set the gold items that you are giving God as a compensation offering in a box next to the chest. Then send it on its way. 9Then watch what happens: If the cart goes up the road to its own territory toward Beth-shemesh, then Israel\u2019s God has brought this great disaster on us. If the cart goes another way, then we\u2019ll know that it wasn\u2019t God\u2019s hand that struck us. It happened to us randomly.\u201d 10The rulers did just that. They took two nursing cows and harnessed them to the cart, penning their calves up at home. 11They put the LORD\u2019s chest on the cart along with the box containing the gold mice and the images of their tumors. 12The cows went straight ahead, following the road to Beth-shemesh. They kept to one route, mooing as they went, without turning right or left. The Philistine rulers followed them as far as the territory of Beth-shemesh. 13Now the people of Beth-shemesh were harvesting wheat in the valley. When they looked up and saw the chest, they were overjoyed at the sight. 14The cart entered the field belonging to Joshua of Beth-shemesh and stopped right by a large stone. They chopped up the wood of the cart and offered the cows as an entirely burned offering to the LORD. 15The Levites unloaded the LORD\u2019s chest and the box that was with it that contained all the gold items, and they set them on the large stone. That very day the people of Beth-shemesh offered entirely burned offerings and made sacrifices to the LORD. 16When the five Philistine rulers witnessed this, they went straight back to Ekron. 17These are the gold tumors that the Philistines returned as a compensation offering to the LORD: one for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ashkelon, one for Gath, and one for Ekron. 18The gold mice matched the number of Philistine cities belonging to the five rulers, from fortified cities to country villages. And the large stone they set the LORD\u2019s chest on is a witness even now in the field that belongs to Joshua of Beth-shemesh. 19But God struck down some of the people from Beth-shemesh because they looked into the LORD\u2019s chest. God struck seventy people, and the community grieved because the LORD had struck them so severely. 20The people of Beth-shemesh said, \u201cWho can stand before the LORD, this holy God? Where can he go that is away from us here?\u201d 21They sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath-jearim. \u201cThe Philistines returned the LORD\u2019s chest!\u201d they said. \u201cCome down and take it back with you.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbk1OR2JOODdaODZJTWdrcnJpVTloQ2NYOFhCZ3xBQ3Jtc0tuRzR1OUpGUlRZVklDWndNdms0ZnByZmdEMEVDZVNWT2dPdExIYUxsM3NNTEpsTHBXZExBbS1pMTBBSzhkX1BUb2RpQThXcEtBQ0FzYlpCeDA3SG92YmV1bXBvazVBT21vbWpRMS15Z25KV1BZc1d4RQ&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Ftemtube.com%2F&amp;v=Bn9BRePvw_4\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/temtube.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1The LORD\u2019s chest was in Philistine territory for seven months. 2The Philistines called for the priests and the diviners. \u201cWhat should we do with the LORD\u2019s chest?\u201d they asked. \u201cTell us how we should send it back to its own home.\u201d 3They replied, \u201cIf you are returning the chest of Israel\u2019s God, don\u2019t send it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1897,1898,6,752,5],"class_list":["post-2278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-youtube","tag-1-samuel-6-gods-chest-is-returned","tag-https-www-youtube-com-watchvbn9brepvw_4t14s","tag-thomas-mcneilly","tag-thomas-mcneilly-videos","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/temtube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/temtube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/temtube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/temtube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/temtube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/temtube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2279,"href":"https:\/\/temtube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions\/2279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/temtube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/temtube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/temtube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/temtube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}