1 Samuel 6:20

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The people of Beth Shemesh asked, "Who can stand in the presence of the LORD, this holy God? And to whom should we send it to get it away from us?"

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  • 2 Sam 6:9 : 9 David was afraid of the LORD that day and said, 'How can the ark of the LORD ever come to me?'
  • Mal 3:2 : 2
  • Luke 5:8 : 8 When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus' knees and said, "Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!"
  • Luke 8:37 : 37 Then the whole crowd from the region of the Gadarenes begged Him to leave them, because they were overwhelmed with great fear. So He got into the boat and returned.
  • Rev 6:17 : 17 For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can withstand it?
  • Lev 11:45 : 45 For I am the LORD, who brought you up out of Egypt to be your God; therefore, be holy, because I am holy.
  • Num 17:12-13 : 12 So Aaron did as Moses commanded and ran into the midst of the assembly, and the plague had already begun among the people. He put the incense in and made atonement for the people. 13 He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was stopped.
  • 1 Sam 5:8-9 : 8 So they gathered all the rulers of the Philistines and said, “What should we do with the Ark of the God of Israel?” They answered, “Let the Ark of the God of Israel be moved to Gath.” So they moved the Ark of the God of Israel. 9 But after they had moved it, the hand of the LORD came against the city of Gath, causing great panic. He afflicted the people of the city, from the youngest to the oldest, with tumors. 10 Then they sent the Ark of God to Ekron. But when the Ark reached Ekron, the people of Ekron cried out, saying, “They have brought the Ark of the God of Israel here to kill us and our people!” 11 So they sent word and gathered all the rulers of the Philistines and said, 'Send the Ark of the God of Israel away, let it return to its place so that it will not kill us and our people.' For there was a deadly panic throughout the whole city; the hand of God was very heavy there. 12 The men who did not die were afflicted with tumors, and the outcry of the city went up to heaven.
  • 2 Sam 6:7 : 7 The LORD's anger burned against Uzzah, and God struck him down there for his irreverence. He died there beside the ark of God.
  • 1 Chr 13:11-13 : 11 David was angry because the LORD had burst out against Uzza, so he named that place Perez-Uzza, as it is called to this day. 12 David feared God that day and said, "How can I bring the ark of God to me?" 13 So David did not move the ark to be with him in the City of David, but instead he directed it to the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.
  • Ps 76:7 : 7 At Your rebuke, O God of Jacob, both chariot and horse fell into a deep sleep.

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  • 1 Sam 6:18-19
    2 verses
    79%

    18And the gold mice represented the number of all the Philistine towns belonging to the five rulers, from fortified cities to rural villages. The large stone where they set the ark of the LORD remains in the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh to this day.

    19But God struck down some of the men of Beth Shemesh because they looked into the ark of the LORD. He struck down seventy men, and the people mourned because the LORD had inflicted them with a great blow.

  • 1 Sam 6:8-16
    9 verses
    78%

    8Place the ark of the LORD on the cart and the gold objects you are returning to him as a guilt offering in a box beside it. Then send it on its way.

    9Watch to see: if it goes up along the road to its own territory, toward Beth Shemesh, then it is the LORD who has brought this great disaster upon us. But if it does not, then we will know it was not his hand that struck us; it happened by chance.

    10The men did so. They took two nursing cows, hitched them to the cart, and confined their calves to the barn.

    11Then they placed the ark of the LORD on the cart, along with the box containing the gold mice and the models of their tumors.

    12The cows went straight up the road toward Beth Shemesh, staying on the main highway. They kept lowing as they went, without turning to the right or left. The rulers of the Philistines followed them until the border of Beth Shemesh.

    13Now the people of Beth Shemesh were harvesting wheat in the valley. When they looked up and saw the ark, they rejoiced at the sight.

    14The cart came to the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh and stopped there beside a large stone. They chopped up the wood of the cart, and they offered the cows as a burnt offering to the LORD.

    15The Levites took down the ark of the LORD and the box containing the gold objects and placed them on the large stone. That day, the people of Beth Shemesh offered burnt offerings and made sacrifices to the LORD.

    16When the five rulers of the Philistines saw what happened, they returned to Ekron that same day.

  • 1 Sam 6:21
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    21So they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath Jearim, saying, "The Philistines have returned the ark of the LORD. Come down and take it up to you."

  • 1 Sam 6:1-3
    3 verses
    76%

    1The ark of the LORD remained in the territory of the Philistines for seven months.

    2The Philistines called for the priests and diviners and said, "What should we do with the ark of the LORD? Tell us how we should send it back to its place."

    3They responded, "If you send the ark of the God of Israel back, do not send it away empty. Make sure to return a guilt offering to him as well; then you will be healed, and it will become clear to you why his hand has not been lifted from you."

  • 1 Sam 5:7-12
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    74%

    7When the people of Ashdod saw what was happening, they said, “The Ark of the God of Israel cannot stay with us, for His hand is harsh against us and our god Dagon.”

    8So they gathered all the rulers of the Philistines and said, “What should we do with the Ark of the God of Israel?” They answered, “Let the Ark of the God of Israel be moved to Gath.” So they moved the Ark of the God of Israel.

    9But after they had moved it, the hand of the LORD came against the city of Gath, causing great panic. He afflicted the people of the city, from the youngest to the oldest, with tumors.

    10Then they sent the Ark of God to Ekron. But when the Ark reached Ekron, the people of Ekron cried out, saying, “They have brought the Ark of the God of Israel here to kill us and our people!”

    11So they sent word and gathered all the rulers of the Philistines and said, 'Send the Ark of the God of Israel away, let it return to its place so that it will not kill us and our people.' For there was a deadly panic throughout the whole city; the hand of God was very heavy there.

    12The men who did not die were afflicted with tumors, and the outcry of the city went up to heaven.

  • 2 Sam 6:9-10
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    73%

    9David was afraid of the LORD that day and said, 'How can the ark of the LORD ever come to me?'

    10So David was not willing to bring the ark of the LORD to the City of David. Instead, he took it to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

  • 1 Sam 4:3-4
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    3When the troops returned to the camp, the elders of Israel said, 'Why has the Lord allowed us to be defeated today by the Philistines? Let us fetch the Ark of the Covenant from Shiloh so it can come among us and deliver us from the power of our enemies.'

    4So the people sent men to Shiloh, and they brought back the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord of Hosts, who is enthroned between the cherubim. Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, accompanied the Ark of the Covenant of God.

  • 1 Sam 4:6-8
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    72%

    6The Philistines heard the sound of the shouting and said, 'What is this loud shouting in the camp of the Hebrews?' They realized that the Ark of the Lord had come into the camp.

    7The Philistines became afraid, saying, 'A god has come into the camp!' They exclaimed, 'Woe to us! Nothing like this has ever happened before!

    8Woe to us! Who will deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with every kind of plague in the wilderness.

  • 2 Sam 6:2
    72%

    2David set out with all the people who were with him from Baale of Judah to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the name, the name of the LORD of Hosts, who is enthroned above the cherubim.

  • Judg 20:27
    70%

    27And the Israelites inquired of the LORD (the Ark of the Covenant of God was there in those days),

  • 1 Chr 13:12
    70%

    12David feared God that day and said, "How can I bring the ark of God to me?"

  • Ps 24:3
    70%

    3Who may ascend the mountain of the Lord? Who may stand in His holy place?

  • 1 Sam 7:1
    69%

    1The men of Kiriath-jearim came and took the Ark of the LORD. They brought it to the house of Abinadab on the hill and consecrated his son Eleazar to guard the Ark of the LORD.

  • 1 Chr 13:6
    69%

    6David and all Israel went up to Baalah, to Kiriath-jearim in Judah, to bring up the ark of God, the LORD who is enthroned above the cherubim, where His Name is called.

  • 1 Chr 15:14
    69%

    14So the priests and the Levites consecrated themselves in order to bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel.

  • 2 Sam 6:6
    69%

    6When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached out his hand to the ark of God to steady it, for the oxen had stumbled.

  • 2 Sam 6:13
    68%

    13When those carrying the ark of the LORD had taken six steps, he sacrificed a bull and a fattened calf.

  • 1 Sam 5:3
    68%

    3When the people of Ashdod woke early the next morning, they found Dagon fallen face down on the ground before the Ark of the LORD. They picked up Dagon and returned it to its place.

  • 1 Chr 15:12
    68%

    12He said to them, "You are the heads of the Levitical families. Consecrate yourselves, you and your relatives, so that you may bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel, to the place I prepared for it.

  • 1 Sam 4:16-17
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    68%

    16The man said to Eli, 'I have come from the battle; I fled from the battlefield today.' Eli asked, 'What happened, my son?'

    17The messenger answered, 'Israel has fled before the Philistines, there has been a great slaughter among the people, your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the Ark of God has been captured.'

  • Josh 3:3
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    3and they commanded the people, saying, 'When you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God being carried by the Levitical priests, you are to set out from your place and follow it.

  • 1 Sam 17:26
    68%

    26David said to the men standing with him, 'What will be done for the man who strikes down this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?'

  • 1 Sam 5:1
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    1The Philistines took the Ark of God and brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.

  • 1 Sam 4:13
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    13When he arrived, Eli was sitting on his seat by the side of the road, watching, for his heart trembled for the Ark of God. When the man entered the city to report the news, the entire city cried out.

  • Num 13:31
    67%

    31But the men who had gone up with him said, "We cannot attack these people, for they are stronger than we are."

  • 1 Sam 23:3
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    3But David's men said to him, "We are afraid here in Judah. How much more if we go to Keilah to face the battle lines of the Philistines!"

  • 1 Sam 14:6
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    6Jonathan said to the young man who carried his armor, 'Come, let us cross over to the garrison of these uncircumcised men. Perhaps the Lord will act on our behalf, for nothing can hinder the Lord from saving, whether by many or by few.'

  • 2 Chr 20:12
    67%

    12Our God, will you not judge them? For we have no power to face this vast army coming against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you.

  • 1 Sam 6:6
    67%

    6Why do you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When he dealt severely with them, didn’t they let the Israelites go, and they departed?