Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, by R.A. Torrey, [ca. 1880], at sacred-texts.com
1 Kings (1 Samuel) Chapter 6
Overview
Sa1 6:1, After seven months the Philistines take counsel how to send back the ark; Sa1 6:10, They bring it on a new cart with an offering unto Beth-shemesh; Sa1 6:19, The people are smitten for looking into the ark; Sa1 6:21, They send to them of Kirjath-jearim to fetch it.
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the ark: Sa1 5:1, Sa1 5:3, Sa1 5:10, Sa1 5:11; Psa 78:61
called: Gen 41:8; Exo 7:11; Isa 47:12, Isa 47:13; Dan 2:2, Dan 5:7; Mat 2:4
wherewith: Mic 6:6-9
empty: Exo 23:15, Exo 34:20; Deu 16:16
a trespass: Lev 5:6, Lev 5:15-19, Lev 6:6, Lev 7:1-7
known: Sa1 6:9, Sa1 5:7, Sa1 5:9, Sa1 5:11; Job 10:2, Job 34:31, Job 34:32
Five golden: Sa1 6:5, Sa1 6:17, Sa1 6:18, Sa1 5:6, Sa1 5:9; Exo 12:35; Jos 13:3; Jdg 3:3
you all: Heb. them
mice: Bochart has collected many curious accounts relative to the terrible devastations made by these mischievous animals. William, Archbishop of Tyre, records, that in the beginning of the twelfth century, a penitential council was held at Naplouse, where five and twenty canons were framed for the correction of the manners of the inhabitants of the Christian kingdom of Jerusalem, who they apprehended had provoked to bring upon them the calamities of earthquakes, war, and famine. This last he ascribes to locusts and devouring mice, which had for four years together so destroyed the fruits of the earth as to cause an almost total failure of their crops. It was customary for the ancient heathen to offer to their gods such monuments of their deliverance as represented the evils from which they had been rescued; and Tavernier informs us, that among the Indians, when a pilgrim goes to one of the pagodas for a cure, he brings the figure of the member affected, made of gold, silver, or copper, according to his circumstances, which he offers to his god. Exo 8:5, Exo 8:17, Exo 8:24, Exo 10:14, Exo 10:15; Joe 1:4-7, Joe 2:25
give glory: Jos 7:19; Psa 18:44, Psa 66:3 *marg. Isa 42:12; Jer 3:13, Jer 13:16; Mal 2:2; Joh 9:24; Rev 11:13, Rev 16:9
lighten: Sa1 5:6, Sa1 5:11; Psa 32:4, Psa 39:10
off your: Sa1 5:3, Sa1 5:4, Sa1 5:7; Exo 12:12; Num 33:4; Isa 19:1
harden: Job 9:4; Psa 95:8; Rom 2:5; Heb 3:13
the Egyptians: Exo 7:13, Exo 8:15, Exo 9:16, Exo 9:34, Exo 10:3, Exo 14:17, Exo 14:23, Exo 15:14-16
wonderfully: or, reproachfully
did they not: Exo 12:31-33
the people: Heb. them
on which: Num 19:2
Bethshemesh: Jos 15:10, Jos 21:16
he: or, it, Amo 3:6
we shall: Sa1 6:3
not his hand: Isa 26:11
a chance: Sa2 1:6; Ecc 9:11; Luk 10:31
they laid: Sa2 6:3; Ch1 13:7, Ch1 15:13-15
offered: Sa1 7:9-17, Sa1 11:5, Sa1 20:29; Exo 20:24; Jdg 6:26, Jdg 21:4; Sa2 24:18, Sa2 24:22, Sa2 24:25; Kg1 18:30-38
the five: Sa1 6:4, Sa1 6:12; Jos 13:3; Jdg 3:3, Jdg 16:5, Jdg 16:23-30
they returned: Sa1 5:10
these: Sa1 6:4
Ashdod: Sa1 5:1; Ch2 26:6; Jer 25:20; Zac 9:6
Gaza: Jdg 16:1, Jdg 16:21; Amo 1:7, Amo 1:8
Gath: Sa1 5:8; Sa2 1:20, Sa2 21:22; Amo 6:2
Ekron: Sa1 5:10; Kg2 1:2; Amo 1:8
the five lords: Sa1 6:16; Jos 13:3
great stone of: or, great stone
he smote: Exo 19:21; Lev 10:1-3; Num 4:4, Num 4:5, Num 4:15, Num 4:20; Deu 29:29; Sa2 6:7; Ch1 13:9, Ch1 13:10; Col 2:18; Pe1 4:17
fifty thousand: As it is very improbable that the village of Beth-shemesh should contain, or be capable of employing, 50,070 men in the fields at wheat harvest, much less that they could all peep into the ark, and from the uncommon manner in which it is expressed in the original, it is generally allowed that there is some corruption in the text, or that some explanatory word is omitted. The Hebrew is shivim ish, chamishim aileph ish, literally, "seventy men, fifty thousand men." So LXX εβδομηκοντα ανδρας και πεντηκοντα χιλιαδας ανδρων. Vulgate, septuaginta viros, et quinquaginta millia plebis. "70 (chief) men, and 50,000 common people." Targum, besabey amma, "of the elders of the people 70 men, ovekahala, and in the congregation 50,000 men." But the Syriac, chamsho alphin weshivin gavrin, "5,000 and 70 men;" with which the Arabic agrees; while Josephus has only εβδομηκοντα, seventy men; and three reputable manuscripts of Dr. Kennicott's also omit "50,000 men." Some learned men, however, would render, by supplying מ, mem, "70 men; fifty out of a thousand;" which supposes about 1,400 present, and that a twentieth part were slain.
Sa1 5:8-12; Num 17:12, Num 17:13; Sa2 6:7, Sa2 6:9; Ch1 13:11-13; Psa 76:7; Mal 3:2; Luk 5:8, Luk 8:37
Kirjathjearim: Jos 18:14; Jdg 18:12; Ch1 13:5, Ch1 13:6; Psa 78:60; Jer 7:12, Jer 7:14