1 Samuel 6

Treated in 3 passages across the library.

The verses these writers stop at

  • 6:9 Then watch. If it goes up the road to its own territory, toward Beth-shemesh, then it is he who has brought this great disaster on us. But if not, we will know that it was not his hand that struck us. It just happened to us by chance." 1
  • 6:10 The men did this. They took two cows that were nursing calves and harnessed them to the cart, and they penned up their calves at home. 1
  • 6:19 But he struck down some of the men of Beth-shemesh for looking into the ark of the LORD. He struck down seventy men among the people, 50,000 men. The people mourned because the LORD had struck them with such a heavy blow. 1

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Where it is preached

  1. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 1, Chapter 16 — The World, Created by God, Still Cherished and Protected by Him cites 1 Sam. 6:9

    …shall know that it is not his hand that smote us, it was a chance that happened to us.” (1 Sam. 6:9). Foolishly, indeed, when divination fails them they flee to fortune. Still we see them…

  2. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners · John Bunyan

    A Brief Account of the Author’s Imprisonment cites 1 Sam. vi. 10

    …were to carry the ark of God into another country, and to leave their calves behind them, 1 Sam. vi. 10. 329. But that which helped me in this temptation was divers considerations, of which…

  3. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    Adam's Sin cites I Sam 6:19

    …and did not belong to him. God smote the men of Bethshemesh for looking into the ark. I Sam 6:19. Adam would be prying into God’s secrets, and tasting what was forbidden. (7:)…