1 Samuel 6:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

And they said, "If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it empty, but indeed return to Him a trespass offering. Then you shall be healed, and it will be known to you why His hand has not been removed from you."

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    They 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."

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And they said,{H559} If ye send away{H7971} the ark{H727} of the God{H430} of Israel,{H3478} send{H7971} it not empty;{H7387} but by all means{H7725} return{H7725} him a trespass-offering:{H817} then ye shall be healed,{H7495} and it shall be known{H3045} to you why his hand{H3027} is not removed{H5493} from you.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And they said{H559}{(H8799)}, If ye send away{H7971}{(H8764)} the ark{H727} of the God{H430} of Israel{H3478}, send{H7971}{(H8762)} it not empty{H7387}; but in any wise{H7725}{(H8687)} return{H7725}{(H8686)} him a trespass offering{H817}: then ye shall be healed{H7495}{(H8735)}, and it shall be known{H3045}{(H8738)} to you why his hand{H3027} is not removed{H5493}{(H8799)} from you.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    They sayde: Yf ye wyll sende awaye the Arke of the God of Israel, sende it not awaye emptye, but geue a trespace offerynge: so shal ye be made whole, and ye shal knowe, why his hande departeth not from you.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    And they sayd, If you send away the Arke of the God of Israel, send it not away emptie, but giue vnto it a sinne offering: then shall ye be healed, and it shall be knowen to you, why his hand departeth not from you.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    They sayde: If you send away the arke of the God of Israel, send it not emptie: but rewarde it with sinne offeryng, and then ye shall be whole, and it shall be knowen to you, why his hand departeth not from you.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    They said, "If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, don't send it empty; but by all means return him a trespass-offering: then you shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you."

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And they say, `If ye are sending away the ark of the God of Israel, ye do not send it away empty; for ye do certainly send back to Him a guilt-offering; then ye are healed, and it hath been known to you why His hand doth not turn aside from you.'

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but by all means 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.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but by all means 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.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    And they said, If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it without an offering, but send him a sin-offering with it: then you will have peace again, and it will be clear to you why the weight of his hand has not been lifted from you.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    They said, "If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, don't send it empty; but by all means return him a trespass offering: then you shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you."

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    They replied,“If you are going to send the ark of the God of Israel back, don’t send it away empty. Be sure to return it with a guilt offering. Then you will be healed, and you will understand why his hand is not removed from you.”

Referenced Verses

  • Exod 23:15 : 15 You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread (you shall eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt; none shall appear before me empty);
  • Deut 16:16 : 16 Three times in a year shall all your males appear before the LORD your God in the place which He shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:
  • 1 Sam 6:9 : 9 And watch, if it goes up the road to its own territory, to Beth Shemesh, then He has done us this great evil; but if not, then we shall know that it was not His hand that struck us, but it happened to us by chance.
  • Job 10:2 : 2 I will say to God, Do not condemn me; show me why You contend with me.
  • Job 34:31-32 : 31 Surely it is proper to say to God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend anymore; 32 That which I do not see, teach me; if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.
  • 1 Sam 5:7 : 7 When the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The ark of the God of Israel must not remain with us, for His hand is harsh upon us and Dagon our god.
  • 1 Sam 5:9 : 9 And it was so, that after they had carried it there, the hand of the LORD was against the city with a very great destruction; He struck the men of the city, both small and great, and they had tumors in their secret parts.
  • 1 Sam 5:11 : 11 So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it return to its own place, that it may not kill us and our people. For there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.
  • Exod 34:20 : 20 But the firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb, and if you do not redeem him, then you shall break his neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. And none shall appear before me empty-handed.
  • Lev 5:6 : 6 And he shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD for his sin which he has committed, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin.
  • Lev 5:15-19 : 15 If a person commits a trespass, and sins unintentionally in the holy things of the LORD, then he shall bring for his trespass to the LORD a ram without blemish from the flocks, valued by you in shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering: 16 And he shall make restitution for the harm that he has done in the holy thing, and add one-fifth to it, and give it to the priest: and the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him. 17 And if a person sins, and commits any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD; though he did not know it, yet he is guilty, and shall bear his guilt. 18 And he shall bring a ram without blemish from the flock, valued by you, for a trespass offering, to the priest: and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his ignorance in which he erred and did not know it, and it shall be forgiven him. 19 It is a trespass offering: he has certainly trespassed against the LORD.
  • Lev 6:6 : 6 And he shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD, a ram without blemish from the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest:
  • Lev 7:1-7 : 1 Likewise, this is the law of the trespass offering: it is most holy. 2 In the place where they kill the burnt offering, they shall kill the trespass offering, and he shall sprinkle its blood all around on the altar. 3 And he shall offer from it all the fat, the tail, and the fat that covers the entrails, 4 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them by the loins, and the lobe above the liver, with the kidneys, he shall remove it: 5 And the priest shall burn them on the altar for an offering made by fire to the LORD: it is a trespass offering. 6 Every male among the priests shall eat it: it shall be eaten in a holy place: it is most holy. 7 As the sin offering is, so is the trespass offering: there is one law for them: the priest who makes atonement with it shall have it.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Sam 6:4-21
    18 verses
    85%

    4 Then they said, "What shall be the trespass offering that we shall return to Him?" They answered, "Five golden tumors and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines, for one plague was on all of you and on your lords."

    5 Therefore you shall make images of your tumors and images of your mice that ruin the land, and you shall give glory to the God of Israel. Perhaps He will lighten His hand from upon you, your gods, and your land.

    6 Why then do you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When He had worked wonders among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?

    7 Now therefore, make a new cart, take two milk cows that have never been yoked, and tie the cows to the cart, but bring their calves home away from them.

    8 And take the ark of the Lord and set it on the cart, and put the jewels of gold, which you are returning to Him as a trespass offering, in a chest by its side and send it away, so that it may go.

    9 And watch, if it goes up the road to its own territory, to Beth Shemesh, then He has done us this great evil; but if not, then we shall know that it was not His hand that struck us, but it happened to us by chance.

    10 And the men did so; they took two milk cows, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.

    11 And they set the ark of the Lord on the cart, and the chest with the golden mice and the images of their tumors.

    12 And the cows took the straight road to Beth Shemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and did not turn aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines followed them to the border of Beth Shemesh.

    13 Now the people of Beth Shemesh 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 of Beth Shemesh and stood there; there was a large stone, and they split the wood of the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the Lord.

    15 The Levites took down the ark of the Lord and the chest that was with it, in which were the jewels of gold, and placed them on the large stone. And the men of Beth Shemesh offered burnt offerings and made sacrifices to the Lord on that day.

    16 When the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.

    17 These are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned as a trespass offering to the Lord: one for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ashkelon, one for Gath, one for Ekron;

    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 country villages, even to the large stone of Abel, on which they set down the ark of the Lord, which remains to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh.

    19 And He struck the men of Beth Shemesh because they had looked into the ark of the Lord. He struck fifty thousand and seventy men of the people, and the people mourned because the Lord had struck the people with a great slaughter.

    20 And the men of Beth Shemesh said, "Who is able to stand before this holy Lord God? And to whom shall He go up from us?"

    21 So they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjath Jearim, saying, "The Philistines have brought back the ark of the Lord; come down and take it up to you."

  • 1 Sam 6:1-2
    2 verses
    84%

    1 And the ark of the Lord was in the country of the Philistines for seven months.

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

  • 1 Sam 5:6-12
    7 verses
    78%

    6 But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon the people of Ashdod, and He destroyed them and struck them with tumors, even Ashdod and its territory.

    7 When the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The ark of the God of Israel must not remain with us, for His hand is harsh upon us and Dagon our god.

    8 So they sent and gathered all the lords of the Philistines to them and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried to Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel there.

    9 And it was so, that after they had carried it there, the hand of the LORD was against the city with a very great destruction; He struck the men of the city, both small and great, and they had tumors in their secret parts.

    10 So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And as the ark of God came to Ekron, the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought the ark of the God of Israel to us, to kill us and our people.

    11 So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it return to its own place, that it may not kill us and our people. For there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.

    12 And the men who did not die were struck with tumors, and the cry of the city went up to heaven.

  • 1 Sam 4:3-4
    2 verses
    76%

    3 And when the people had come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Why has the LORD defeated us today before the Philistines? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Shiloh to us, that when it comes among us, it may save us from the hand of our enemies.

    4 So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from there the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, who dwells between the cherubim, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.

  • 1 Sam 5:1-3
    3 verses
    73%

    1 And the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.

    2 When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon and set it by Dagon.

    3 And when the people of Ashdod arose early the next day, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD. So they took Dagon and set him back in his place.

  • Josh 3:3
    71%

    3 And they commanded the people, saying, When you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests, the Levites, carrying it, then you shall move from your place and follow it.

  • 2 Sam 6:13
    71%

    13 And it was so, that when those who bore the ark of the LORD had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings.

  • 1 Chr 13:3
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    3 And let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we did not inquire of it in the days of Saul.

  • 1 Sam 4:6-8
    3 verses
    70%

    6 And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, What does the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews mean? And they understood that the ark of the LORD had come into the camp.

    7 And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into the camp. And they said, Woe to us! for such a thing has not happened before.

    8 Woe to us! who shall deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods that struck the Egyptians with all the plagues in the wilderness.

  • 2 Sam 6:6
    70%

    6 And when they came to Nachon's threshing floor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it, for the oxen shook it.

  • 1 Sam 7:3
    70%

    3 And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, If you return to the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the foreign gods and Ashtoreth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the LORD, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.

  • 2 Sam 6:9-10
    2 verses
    69%

    9 And David was afraid of the LORD that day, and said, How shall the ark of the LORD come to me?

    10 So David would not move the ark of the LORD to him into the city of David, but David carried it aside into the house of Obededom the Gittite.

  • 2 Sam 6:17
    69%

    17 And they brought in the ark of the LORD, and set it in its place, in the midst of the tabernacle that David had pitched for it, and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.

  • 1 Sam 4:17
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    17 And the messenger answered and said, Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people, and your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.

  • 2 Kgs 1:6
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    6 And they said to him, A man came up to meet us, and said to us, Go, return to the king who sent you, and say to him, Thus says the LORD, Is it not because there is no God in Israel that you send to inquire of Baalzebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore, you shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but shall surely die.

  • 1 Chr 16:1
    68%

    1 So they brought the ark of God and set it in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it, and they offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings before God.

  • 1 Sam 29:7
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    7 Therefore now return, and go in peace, that you do not displease the lords of the Philistines.

  • 1 Chr 13:9
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    9 And when they came to the threshing floor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark, for the oxen stumbled.

  • 1 Chr 15:14
    68%

    14 So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel.

  • 1 Chr 13:12
    68%

    12 And David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of God home to me?