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1 Samuel 6:16

1 Samuel 6:16
And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen it,.... Observed all that was done, how the kine performed their journey, drew the cart in which the ark was straight to Bethshemesh, stopped in a…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

1 Samuel 6:10-18

We are here told,

I. How the Philistines dismissed the ark, Sa1 6:10, Sa1 6:11. They were made as glad to part with it as ever they had been to take it. As God had fetched Israel out of the house of…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

1 Samuel 6:12-18

The plan carried out and the Ark restored to Israel

12. took the straight way to the way of Beth-skemesh Better, went straight forward on the road to Beth-shemesh.

lowing as they went For their lost…