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1 Samuelsboken 6
Svenska 1917
1 Samuelsboken 6
Svenska 1917
6 Sedan nu HERRENS ark hade varit i filistéernas land i sju månader,
2 tillkallade filistéerna sina präster och spåmän och sade: »Vad skola vi göra med HERRENS ark? Låten oss veta på vilket sätt vi skola sända den till dess plats igen.»
3 De svarade: »Om I viljen sända bort Israels Guds ark, skolen I icke sända bort den utan skänker; I måsten giva åt honom ett skuldoffer. Då skolen I bliva botade, och det skall då också bliva eder kunnigt varför hans hand icke drager sig tillbaka från eder.»
4 Då frågade de: »Vad för ett skuldoffer skola vi giva åt honom?» De svarade: »Fem bölder av guld och fem jordråttor av guld, lika många som filistéernas hövdingar; ty en och samma hemsökelse har träffat alla, också edra hövdingar.
5 I skolen göra avbildningar av edra bölder och avbildningar av jordråttorna som fördärva edert land; given så ära åt Israels Gud. Kanhända tager han då bort sin tunga hand från eder, så ock från eder gud och från edert land.
6 Varför tillsluten I edra hjärtan, såsom egyptierna och Farao tillslöto sina hjärtan? Måste icke dessa, sedan han hade utfört stora gärningar bland dem, släppa israeliterna, så att de fingo gå?
7 Så gören eder nu en ny vagn, och tagen två kor som giva di, och som icke hava burit något ok, och spännen korna för vagnen, men skiljen deras kalvar ifrån dem och låten dem stanna hemma.
8 Tagen så HERRENS ark och sätten den på vagnen, och läggen de gyllene klenoder I given honom såsom skuldoffer ned i ett skrin vid sidan av den, och låten den så gå åstad.
9 Sedan skolen I se efter: om den tager vägen till sitt land, upp mot Bet-Semes, så var det han som gjorde oss allt detta stora onda; men om så icke sker, då veta vi att det icke var hans hand som hemsökte oss. Detta har då träffat oss allenast av en händelse.»
10 Männen gjorde så; de togo två kor som gåvo di och spände dem för vagnen; men deras kalvar behöllo de hemma.
11 Och de satte HERRENS ark på vagnen, därtill ock skrinet med jordråttorna av guld och med avbildningarna av svulsterna.
12 Och korna gingo raka vägen fram åt Bet-Semes till; de höllo alltjämt samma stråt och gingo där råmande, utan att vika av vare sig till höger eller till vänster. Och filistéernas hövdingar gingo efter dem ända till Bet-Semes' område.
13 Men betsemesiterna höllo på med veteskörd i dalen. När de nu lyfte upp sina ögon, fingo de se arken; och de blevo glada, då de sågo den.
14 Men när vagnen kom till betsemesiten Josuas åker, stannade den där; och där låg en stor sten. Då höggo de sönder trävirket på vagnen och offrade korna till brännoffer åt HERREN.
15 Leviterna hade nämligen lyft ned HERRENS ark jämte skrinet som stod därbredvid, det vari de gyllene klenoderna funnos, och hade satt detta på den stora stenen. Sedan offrade invånarna i Bet-Semes på den dagen brännoffer och slaktoffer åt HERREN.
16 Och när filistéernas fem hövdingar hade sett detta, vände de samma dag tillbaka till Ekron.
17 De svulster av guld som filistéerna gåvo såsom skuldoffer åt HERREN utgjorde: för Asdod en, för Gasa en, för Askelon en, för Gat en, för Ekron en.
18 Men jordråttorna av guld voro lika många som filistéernas alla städer under de fem hövdingarna, varvid medräknas både befästa städer och landsbygdens byar, intill den stora Sorgestenen, på vilken de satte ned HERRENS ark, och som finnes kvar ännu i dag, på betsemesiten Josuas åker.
19 Av invånarna i Bet-Semes blevo ock många slagna, därför att de hade sett på HERRENS ark; han slog sjuttio man bland folket, femtio tusen man. Och folket sörjde däröver att HERREN hade slagit så många bland folket.
20 Och invånarna i Bet-Semes sade: »Vem kan bestå inför HERREN, denne helige Gud? Och till vem skall han draga bort ifrån oss?»
21 Och de skickade sändebud till dem som bodde i Kirjat-Jearim och läto säga: »Filistéerna hava sänt tillbaka HERRENS ark; kommen hitned och hämten den upp till eder.
1 Samuel 6
Dios Habla Hoy
1 Samuel 6
Dios Habla Hoy
Los filisteos devuelven el arca
6 El arca del Señor había estado siete meses en territorio filisteo. 2 Y convocaron los filisteos a los sacerdotes y adivinos para preguntarles:
—¿Qué haremos con el arca del Señor? Dígannos cómo debemos devolverlo a su lugar.
3 Ellos les contestaron:
—Si devuelven el arca del Dios de Israel, no lo manden sin nada, sino ofrezcan algo en desagravio al Señor. Entonces ustedes volverán a estar sanos y comprenderán por qué no ha dejado de castigarlos.
4 —¿Qué podemos ofrecerle en desagravio? —preguntaron los filisteos.
—Cinco figuras de oro en forma de tumor —contestaron los sacerdotes—, una por cada jefe filisteo; y cinco ratones del mismo metal, ya que ustedes y sus jefes sufren de la misma plaga. 5 Por consiguiente, hagan las figuras de los tumores y de los ratones que destrozan el país, y den honra al Dios de Israel; pues tal vez deje de castigarlos a ustedes, y a los dioses y a la tierra de ustedes. 6 ¿Por qué tienen ustedes que ser testarudos, como fueron los egipcios y el faraón, que sólo cuando el Dios de Israel los trató con dureza dejaron ir a los israelitas? 7 Manden ustedes construir una carreta nueva; tomen después dos vacas que estén criando y que nunca hayan llevado yugo, y únzanlas a la carreta; pero no dejen que sus becerros las sigan, sino déjenlos en el establo. 8 Tomen luego el arca del Señor y pónganlo en la carreta, colocando a un costado, en una caja, los objetos de oro que le van a ofrecer en desagravio. Después dejen que la carreta se vaya sola. 9 Pero fíjense en esto: si la carreta toma la dirección de Bet-semes, su propia tierra, es que el Dios de Israel ha sido la causa de nuestra gran desgracia; en caso contrario, sabremos que no fue él quien nos castigó, sino que nos ha ocurrido un accidente.
10 Aquellos hombres lo hicieron así. Tomaron dos vacas que estaban criando y, después de encerrar sus becerros en el establo, las uncieron a la carreta; 11 luego pusieron el arca del Señor en la carreta, con la caja donde estaban los ratones de oro y las figuras de los tumores. 12 Después las vacas echaron a andar por el camino que va a Bet-semes, mugiendo y siguiendo una dirección fija, sin desviarse a ningún lado. Los jefes de los filisteos caminaron detrás de ellas hasta la frontera de Bet-semes. 13 Los habitantes de Bet-semes, que estaban en el valle cosechando el trigo, al alzar la vista y ver el arca se llenaron de alegría. 14 Cuando la carreta llegó al campo de Josué, el de Bet-semes, se detuvo. Allí había una gran piedra. Entonces los de Bet-semes hicieron leña con la madera de la carreta, y ofrecieron las vacas en holocausto al Señor. 15 Los levitas habían descargado ya el arca y la caja en que estaban los objetos de oro, colocándolos sobre la gran piedra; y ese día los habitantes de Bet-semes ofrecieron al Señor holocaustos y otros sacrificios. 16 Después de ver esto, los cinco jefes de los filisteos regresaron aquel mismo día a Ecrón.
17 Los cinco tumores de oro que los filisteos ofrecieron en desagravio al Señor, correspondían a Asdod, Gaza, Ascalón, Gat y Ecrón; 18 y el número de ratones de oro era igual al total de las ciudades filisteas de aquellos cinco jefes, contando tanto las ciudades fortificadas como las aldeas sin murallas. La gran piedra sobre la que pusieron el arca del Señor todavía puede verse en el campo de Josué, el de Bet-semes.
19 Pero el Señor hizo morir a algunos de los habitantes de Bet-semes por haber curioseado dentro del arca. Les quitó la vida a setenta hombres, y la población lloró por la gran mortandad que el Señor había causado entre ellos. 20 Entonces dijeron los habitantes de Bet-semes: «¿Quién se puede sostener ante el Señor, ante este Dios santo? ¿Contra quién irá cuando se aparte de nosotros?» 21 Y enviaron a los habitantes de Quiriat-jearim el siguiente mensaje: «Los filisteos han devuelto el arca del Señor; así que vengan a llevárselo.»
1 Samuel 6
New International Version
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
1 Samuel 6
King James Version
1 Samuel 6
King James Version
6 And the ark of the Lord 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 to the ark of the Lord? tell us wherewith we shall send it to his place.
3 And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise 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 said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines: for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.
5 Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
6 Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?
7 Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them:
8 And take the ark of the Lord, and lay it upon the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which ye return him for a trespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.
9 And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote 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 the Lord upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.
12 And the kine took the straight way to the way of Bethshemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Bethshemesh.
13 And they of Bethshemesh were reaping their 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, a Bethshemite, and stood there, where there was a great stone: and they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the Lord.
15 And the Levites took down the ark of the Lord, and the coffer that was with it, wherein the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Bethshemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto the Lord.
16 And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.
17 And these are the golden emerods which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering unto the Lord; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon 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 of fenced cities, and of country villages, even unto the great stone of Abel, whereon they set down the ark of the Lord: which stone remaineth unto this day in the field of Joshua, the Bethshemite.
19 And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the Lord, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the Lord had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.
20 And the men of Bethshemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy Lord God? and to whom shall he go up from us?
21 And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjathjearim, saying, The Philistines have brought again the ark of the Lord; come ye down, and fetch it up to you.
Svenska 1917 (SV1917)
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