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2.6 KiB
1 Samuel 06 Translation Questions
Q? For what period of time was the ark of Yahweh in the Philistine's country?
A. The ark was in the country of the Philistines for seven months. [6:1]
Q? Who did the Philistines call to ask advice on how the ark of Yahweh should be sent back to its own country?
A. They called for the priests and the diviners to tell them how to send the ark back to its own country. [6:2]
Q? What did the priests and diviners tell the Philistine people to send as a gift to the God of Israel as a guilt offering?
A. They told the Philistines to send five golden tumors and five golden mice. [6:3-4]
Q? Why did the priests and diviners say God had dealt severely with the Egyptians and Pharaoh?
A. God had dealt severely with the Egyptians and Pharaoh because they had hardened their hearts. [6:6]
Q? What animals did the priests and diviners tell the Philistines to tie to the cart on which they were to place the ark of Yahweh?
A. They told the Philistines to tie two nursing cows to the cart. [6:7]
Q? How would the Philistines know that it was Yahweh who had executed the great disaster on them?
A. The Philistines would know it if the cows pulling the cart went on their own to Beth Shemesh. [6:9]
Q? Where did the nursing cows go with the cart carrying the ark and the box containing the golden mice and castings of tumors?
A. The cows went straight in the direction of Beth Shemesh. [6:10-12]
Q? What were the people of Beth Shemesh doing when they lifted up their eyes and saw the ark?
A. They were harvesting their wheat in the valley. [6:13]
Q? What did the people of Beth Shemesh do with the cows that had pulled the cart?
A. They offered the cows as a burnt offering to Yahweh. [6:14]
Q? Who took down the ark of Yahweh and the box that was with it?
A. The Levites took down the ark of Yahweh and the box that was with it. [6:15]
Q? What did the five rulers of the Philistines do when they saw what the men of Beth Shemesh had done?
A. They returned that day to Ekron. [6:16]
Q? What was the significance of the number of five golden tumors and the number of five golden mice?
A. The number of the golden tumors and the golden mice were the same as the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five rulers. [6:17-18]
Q? Why did Yahweh kill seventy of the men of Beth Shemesh?
A. Yahweh killed them because they had looked into his ark. [6:19]
Q? What did the messengers ask the inhabitants of Kiriath Jearim to do about the ark that the Philistines had brought back?
A. The messengers asked the inhabitants of Kiriath Jearim to come down and take the ark back with them. [6:21]