1 Samuel 6:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

it: i.e. the "ark", which is masculine; not the "cart", which is feminine

coast. border, or boundary.

Beth-shemesh. House of the sun, now Ain Skeins, on the borders of Judah and Dan. Compare Joshua 15:10.

this. Some codices, with three early printed editions, read "all this". evil. Hebrew ra'a. App-44.

1 Samuel 6:9

9 And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us: it was a chance that happened to us.