1 Samuel 6
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Los filisteos devuelven el arca
6 El arca del Señor estuvo en la tierra[a] de los filisteos siete meses. 2 Entonces los filisteos llamaron a los sacerdotes y a los adivinos(A), diciendo: ¿Qué haremos con el arca del Señor? Decidnos cómo[b] la hemos de enviar a su lugar. 3 Y ellos dijeron: Si enviáis el arca del Dios de Israel, no la enviéis vacía(B); sino que ciertamente devolveréis a Él una ofrenda por la culpa(C). Entonces seréis sanados y conoceréis por qué su mano no se ha apartado de vosotros. 4 Y los filisteos preguntaron: ¿Cuál será la ofrenda por la culpa que hemos de devolverle? Y ellos dijeron: Cinco tumores de oro(D) y cinco ratones de oro conforme al número de los príncipes de los filisteos(E), porque la misma plaga estuvo sobre todos vosotros y sobre vuestros príncipes. 5 Haréis, pues, semejanzas de vuestros tumores, y semejanzas de vuestros ratones que asolan la tierra, y daréis gloria al Dios de Israel(F); quizá Él aliviará su mano de sobre vosotros(G), de sobre vuestros dioses y de sobre vuestra tierra(H). 6 ¿Por qué entonces endurecéis vuestros corazones, como endurecieron sus corazones los egipcios y Faraón(I)? Cuando Él los trató severamente, ¿no dejaron ir al pueblo[c], y se fueron(J)? 7 Ahora pues, tomad y preparad un carro nuevo(K) y dos vacas con crías sobre las cuales no se haya puesto yugo(L); uncid las vacas al carro y llevad sus becerros a casa, lejos de ellas. 8 Y tomad el arca del Señor y colocadla en el carro; y poned en una caja a su lado los objetos de oro(M) que le entregaréis como ofrenda por la culpa(N). Luego, dejadla ir, y que se vaya. 9 Y observad: si sube por el camino de su territorio[d] a Bet-semes(O), entonces Él nos ha hecho este gran mal. Pero si no, entonces sabremos que no fue su mano la que nos hirió(P); nos sucedió por casualidad.
10 Entonces los hombres lo hicieron así; tomaron dos vacas con crías, las uncieron al carro y encerraron sus becerros en casa. 11 Colocaron el arca del Señor en el carro, y la caja con los ratones de oro y las semejanzas de sus tumores. 12 Y las vacas tomaron el camino recto en dirección[e] a Bet-semes(Q); iban por el camino(R), mugiendo mientras iban, y no se desviaron ni a la derecha ni a la izquierda. Y los príncipes de los filisteos las siguieron hasta el límite de Bet-semes. 13 El pueblo de Bet-semes estaba segando el[f] trigo en el valle, y alzaron sus ojos y vieron el arca, y se alegraron al verla. 14 Y el carro llegó al campo de Josué el bet-semita y se detuvo allí donde había una gran piedra; y ellos partieron la madera del carro y ofrecieron las vacas en holocausto al Señor(S). 15 Los levitas bajaron el arca del Señor y la caja que estaba con ella, en la cual estaban los objetos de oro, y las colocaron sobre la gran piedra(T); y los hombres de Bet-semes ofrecieron holocaustos e hicieron sacrificios aquel día al Señor. 16 Cuando los cinco príncipes de los filisteos vieron esto, regresaron a Ecrón(U) el mismo día.
17 Estos son los tumores de oro que los filisteos entregaron como ofrenda por la culpa al Señor(V): uno por Asdod, uno por Gaza, uno por Ascalón, uno por Gat y uno por Ecrón; 18 y ratones de oro conforme al número de todas las ciudades de los filisteos que pertenecían a los cinco príncipes, tanto de ciudades fortificadas como de aldeas sin murallas(W). La gran piedra[g] sobre la cual colocaron el arca del Señor es testigo hasta el día de hoy en el campo de Josué el bet-semita(X).
19 El Señor hirió a los hombres de Bet-semes porque habían mirado dentro del arca del Señor. De todo el pueblo hirió a cincuenta mil setenta hombres, y el pueblo lloró porque el Señor había herido al pueblo con gran mortandad(Y). 20 Y los hombres de Bet-semes dijeron: ¿Quién puede estar delante del Señor, este Dios santo(Z)? ¿Y a quién subirá al alejarse de nosotros? 21 Y enviaron mensajeros a los habitantes de Quiriat-jearim(AA), diciendo: Los filisteos han devuelto el arca del Señor; descended, y subidla con vosotros.
Footnotes
- 1 Samuel 6:1 Lit., el campo
- 1 Samuel 6:2 O, con qué
- 1 Samuel 6:6 Lit., a ellos
- 1 Samuel 6:9 Lit., frontera
- 1 Samuel 6:12 Lit., sobre el camino
- 1 Samuel 6:13 Lit., segando la cosecha del
- 1 Samuel 6:18 Así en algunos mss. y versiones antiguas; en el T.M., Abel
1 Samuel 6
Darby Translation
6 And the ark of Jehovah was in the country of the Philistines seven months.
2 And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, What shall we do with the ark of Jehovah? tell us wherewith we shall send it to its place.
3 And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; ye must at any rate return him a trespass-offering: then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you.
4 Then they said, What is the trespass-offering which we shall return to him? And they said, Five golden hemorrhoids, and five golden mice, the number of the lords of the Philistines; for one plague is upon them all, and upon your lords.
5 And ye shall make images of your hemorrhoids, and images of your mice that destroy the land, and give glory to the God of Israel: perhaps he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
6 And why will ye harden your heart, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their heart? When he had wrought mightily among them, did they not let them go, and they departed?
7 And now make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there has come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them;
8 and take the ark of Jehovah, and lay it upon the cart, and the golden jewels, which ye return him as a trespass-offering, put in the coffer by the side thereof; and send it away that it may go.
9 And see, if it go up by the way of its own border to Beth-shemesh, it is he who has done us this great evil; if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that touched us; it was a chance [that] happened to us.
10 And the men did so, and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.
11 And they laid the ark of Jehovah upon the cart, and the coffer with the golden mice and the images of their sores.
12 And the kine went straight forward on the way to Beth-shemesh; they went by the one high way, lowing as they went; and they turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them as far as the border of Beth-shemesh.
13 And [they of] Beth-shemesh were reaping the wheat-harvest in the valley; and they lifted up their eyes and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.
14 And the cart came into the field of Joshua the Beth-shemeshite, and stood there; and a great stone was there. And they clave the wood of the cart, and offered up the kine as a burnt-offering to Jehovah.
15 And the Levites took down the ark of Jehovah, and the coffer that was with it, in which were the golden jewels, and put them on the great stone; and the men of Beth-shemesh offered up burnt-offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day to Jehovah.
16 And the five lords of the Philistines saw [it], and returned to Ekron the same day.
17 And these are the golden sores which the Philistines returned as a trespass-offering to Jehovah: for Ashdod one, for Gazah one, for Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;
18 and the golden mice, [according to] the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both fortified cities and villages of the peasantry; [and they brought them] as far as the great [stone of] Abel, whereon they set down the ark of Jehovah, [which] is to this day in the field of Joshua the Beth-shemeshite.
19 And he smote among the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of Jehovah, and smote of the people seventy men; and the people lamented, because Jehovah had smitten the people with a great slaughter.
20 And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand before Jehovah, this holy God? and to whom shall he go up from us?
21 And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjath-jearim, saying, The Philistines have brought again the ark of Jehovah; come down, fetch it up to you.
1 Samuel 6
New International Version
The Ark Returned to Israel
6 When the ark of the Lord had been in Philistine territory seven months, 2 the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners(A) and said, “What shall we do with the ark of the Lord? Tell us how we should send it back to its place.”
3 They answered, “If you return the ark of the god of Israel, do not send it back to him without a gift;(B) by all means send a guilt offering(C) to him. Then you will be healed, and you will know why his hand(D) has not been lifted from you.”
4 The Philistines asked, “What guilt offering should we send to him?”
They replied, “Five gold tumors and five gold rats, according to the number(E) of the Philistine rulers, because the same plague(F) has struck both you and your rulers. 5 Make models of the tumors(G) and of the rats that are destroying the country, and give glory(H) to Israel’s god. Perhaps he will lift his hand from you and your gods and your land. 6 Why do you harden(I) your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh did? When Israel’s god dealt harshly with them,(J) did they(K) not send the Israelites out so they could go on their way?
7 “Now then, get a new cart(L) ready, with two cows that have calved and have never been yoked.(M) Hitch the cows to the cart, but take their calves away and pen them up. 8 Take 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, 9 but keep watching it. If it goes up to its own territory, toward Beth Shemesh,(N) 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.”
10 So they did this. They took two such cows and hitched them to the cart and penned up their calves. 11 They 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. 12 Then 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.
13 Now the people of Beth Shemesh were harvesting their wheat(O) in the valley, and when they looked up and saw the ark, they rejoiced at the sight. 14 The 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(P) to the Lord. 15 The Levites(Q) took down the ark of the Lord, together with the chest containing the gold objects, and placed them on the large rock.(R) On that day the people of Beth Shemesh(S) offered burnt offerings and made sacrifices to the Lord. 16 The five rulers of the Philistines saw all this and then returned that same day to Ekron.
17 These are the gold tumors the Philistines sent as a guilt offering to the Lord—one each(T) for Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath and Ekron. 18 And the number of the gold rats was according to the number of Philistine towns belonging to the five rulers—the fortified towns with their country villages. The large rock on which the Levites set the ark of the Lord is a witness to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh.
19 But God struck down(U) some of the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh, putting seventy[a] of them to death because they looked(V) into the ark of the Lord. The people mourned because of the heavy blow the Lord had dealt them. 20 And the people of Beth Shemesh asked, “Who can stand(W) in the presence of the Lord, this holy(X) God? To whom will the ark go up from here?”
21 Then they sent messengers to the people of Kiriath Jearim,(Y) saying, “The Philistines have returned the ark of the Lord. Come down and take it up to your town.”
Footnotes
- 1 Samuel 6:19 A few Hebrew manuscripts; most Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint 50,070
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