And take heed, if it go up by the way of his own coast to Beth Shemesh, it is [a]he that did us this great evil: but if not, we shall know then, that it is not his hand that smote us, but it was a [b]chance that happened us.

10 And the men did so: for they took two kine that gave milk, and tied them to the cart, and shut the calves at home.

11 So they set the Ark of the Lord upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold, and with the similitudes of their emerods.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 6:9 The God of Israel.
  2. 1 Samuel 6:9 The wicked attribute almost all things to fortune and chance, whereas indeed there is nothing done without God’s providence and decree.

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