13 Now they of Beth Shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley, and they lift up their eyes, and spied the Ark, and rejoiced when they saw it.

14 ¶ And the cart came into the field of Joshua a Beth Shemite, and stood still there. There was also a great stone, and [a]they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine for 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 Beth Shemesh offered burnt offering, and sacrificed sacrifices that same day unto the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 6:14 To wit, the men of Beth Shemesh, which was Israelites.

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