1 Samuel 6:1 KJV — MannaFest

1 Samuel 6:1

And the ark of the Lord was in the country of the Philistines seven months.

KJV

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ASV

And the ark of Jehovah was in the country of the Philistines seven months.

WEB

When the ark of the LORD had been in the land of the Philistines seven months,

YLT

And the ark of Jehovah is in the field of the Philistines seven months,

DBT

And the ark of Jehovah was in the country of the Philistines seven months.

About this book

Old Testament

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1 Samuel — The transition from judges to monarchy. Samuel rises as prophet-judge; Israel demands a king; Saul rises and is rejected; David is anointed in obscurity and flees across the wilderness. Three lives overlapping — the prophetic-judicial-royal handoff.

Author: Traditionally Samuel (with additions after his death by Nathan and Gad — cf. 1 Chr 29:29)
Date: Events c. 1050–1010 BC; compilation during the early monarchy

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4 verses on the floor

Psalms 78:61
And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy’s hand.
1 Samuel 5:1
And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Eben–ezer unto Ashdod.
1 Samuel 5:10–11
Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our people.
1 Samuel 5:3
And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the Lord. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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2, 3. the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners--The designed restoration of the ark was not, it seems, universally approved of, and many doubts were expressed whether the prevailing pestilence was really a judgment of Heaven.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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