1 Samuel 6:9
If it goes by the land of Israel to Beth-shemesh, then this great evil is his work; but if not, then we may be certain that the evil was not his doing, but was the working of chance.
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1 Samuel 6:9
If it goes by the land of Israel to Beth-shemesh, then this great evil is his work; but if not, then we may be certain that the evil was not his doing, but was the working of chance.
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1 Samuel 6:1
Now the ark of the Lord was in the country of the Philistines for seven months.
Joshua 15:10
Then turning west, the line goes from Baalah to Mount Seir, and on to the side of Mount Jearim (which is Chesalon) on the north, then down to Beth-shemesh, and on past Timnah:
Joshua 21:16
And Ain, and Juttah, and Beth-shemesh, with their grass-lands; nine towns from those two tribes.
1 Samuel 6:12
And the cows took the straight way, by the road to Beth-shemesh; they went by the highway, not turning to the right or to the left, and the sound of their voices was clear on the road; and the lords of the Philistines went after them as far as the edge of Beth-shemesh.
1 Samuel 6:13
And the people of Beth-shemesh were cutting their grain in the valley, and lifting up their eyes they saw the ark and were full of joy when they saw it.
1 Samuel 6:14
And the cart came into the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite, and came to a stop there by a great stone: and cutting up the wood of the cart they made a burned offering of the cows to the Lord.
1 Samuel 6:15
Then the Levites took down the ark of the Lord and the chest in which were the gold images, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Beth-shemesh made burned offerings and gave worship that day before the Lord.
1 Samuel 6:16
And the five lords of the Philistines, having seen it, went back to Ekron the same day.
1 Samuel 6:17
Now these are the gold images which the Philistines sent as a sin-offering to the Lord; one for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ashkelon, one for Gath, one for Ekron;
1 Samuel 6:18
And the gold mice, one for every town of the Philistines, the property of the five lords, walled towns as well as country places: and the great stone where they put the ark of the Lord is still in the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite to this day.
1 Samuel 6:19
But the Lord sent destruction on seventy men of the people of Beth-shemesh for looking into the ark of the Lord; and great was the sorrow of the people for the destruction which the Lord had sent on them.
1 Samuel 6:20
And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to keep his place before the Lord, this holy God? and to whom may he go from us?
2 Kings 14:11
But Amaziah gave no attention. So Jehoash, king of Israel, went up, and he and Amaziah, king of Judah, came face to face at Beth-shemesh, which is in Judah.
Joshua 19:38
And Iron and Migdal-el, Horem and Beth-anath and Beth-shemesh; nineteen towns with their unwalled places.
1 Kings 4:9
...the son of Deker in Makaz and Shaalbim and Beth-shemesh and Elonbeth-hanan;
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1 Samuel 6:2
And the Philistines sent for the priests and those who were wise in secret arts, and said to them, What are we to do with the ark of the Lord? How are we to send it away to its place?
1 Samuel 6:6
Why do you make your hearts hard, like the hearts of Pharaoh and the Egyptians? When he had made sport of them, did they not let the people go, and they went away?
1 Samuel 6:7
So now, take and make ready a new cart, and two cows which have never come under the yoke, and have the cows yoked to the cart, and take their young ones away from them:
1 Samuel 6:8
And put the ark of the Lord on the cart, and the gold images which you are sending as a sin-offering in a chest by its side; and send it away so that it may go.
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1 Samuel 6:3
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.
1 Samuel 5:11
So they sent and got together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go back to its place, so that it may not be the cause of death to us and to our people: for there was a great fear of death through all the town; the hand of God was very hard on them there.
1 Samuel 5:6
But the hand of the Lord was hard on the people of Ashdod and he sent disease on them through all the country of Ashdod.
1 Samuel 5:7
And when the men of Ashdod saw how it was, they said, Let not the ark of the God of Israel be with us, for his hand is hard on us and on Dagon our god.
1 Samuel 5:9
But after they had taken it away, the hand of the Lord was stretched out against the town for its destruction: and the signs of disease came out on all the men of the town, small and great.
1 Samuel 6:5
So make images of the growths caused by your disease and of the mice which are damaging your land; and give glory to the God of Israel: it may be that the weight of his hand will be lifted from you and from your gods and from your land.
Psalms 32:4
For the weight of your hand was on me day and night; my body became dry like the earth in summer. (Selah.)
Exodus 7:4
But Pharaoh will not give ear to you, and I will put my hand on Egypt, and take my armies, my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt, after great punishments.
1 Samuel 7:13
So the Philistines were overcome, and did not come into the country of Israel again: and all the days of Samuel the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines.
Job 19:21
Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me.
Psalms 38:2
For your arrows have gone into my flesh, and I am crushed under the weight of your hand.
Psalms 39:10
No longer let your hand be hard on me; I am wasted by the blows of your hand.
Psalms 39:11
By the weight of your wrath against man's sin, the glory of his form is wasted away; truly every man is but a breath. (Selah.)
Acts 13:11
And now, see, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind and not able to see the sun for a time. And straight away a dark mist came down on him; and he went about looking for a guide.
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Exodus 8:19
Then the wonder-workers said to Pharaoh, This is the finger of God: but Pharaoh's heart was hard, and he did not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.
Psalms 8:3
When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have put in their places;
Matthew 12:28
But if I by the Spirit of God send out evil spirits, then is the kingdom of God come on you.
Luke 11:20
But if I, by the finger of God, send out evil spirits, then the kingdom of God has overtaken you.
Acts 4:16
Saying, What are we to do with these men? for certainly it is clear to all who are living in Jerusalem that a most important sign has been done by them, and it is not possible to say that it is not so.
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Genesis 12:17
And the Lord sent great troubles on Pharaoh's house because of Sarai, Abram's wife.
Isaiah 53:4
But it was our pain he took, and our diseases were put on him: while to us he seemed as one diseased, on whom God's punishment had come.
2 Kings 15:5
And the Lord sent disease on the king and he became a leper, and to the day of his death he was living separately in his private house. And Jotham his son was over his house, judging the people of the land.
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Ecclesiastes 9:11
And again I saw under the sun that the reward goes not to him who is quick, or the fruits of war to the strong; and there is no bread for the wise, or wealth for men of learning, or respect for those who have knowledge; but time and chance come to all.
Luke 10:31
And by chance a certain priest was going down that way: and when he saw him, he went by on the other side.
Ruth 2:3
And she went, and came and took up the heads of grain in the field after the cutters; and by chance she went into that part of the field which was the property of Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.
2 Samuel 1:6
And the young man said, I came by chance to Mount Gilboa, and I saw Saul supporting himself on his spear; and the war-carriages and horsemen overtook him.
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Isaiah 26:11
Lord, your hand is lifted up, but they do not see: let them see...yes, your haters will be burned up in the fire.
Jeremiah 5:3
O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.
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1 Samuel 6:10
And the men did so; they took two cows, yoking them to the cart and shutting up their young ones in their living-place:
1 Samuel 6:11
And they put the ark of the Lord on the cart and the chest with the gold images.
Jeremiah 43:13
And the stone pillars of Beth-shemesh in the land of Egypt will be broken by him, and the houses of the gods of Egypt burned with fire.
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Job 5:6
For evil does not come out of the dust, or trouble out of the earth;
Amos 3:6
If the horn is sounded in the town will the people not be full of fear? will evil come on a town if the Lord has not done it?
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1 Samuel 20:26
But Saul said nothing that day, for his thought was, Something has taken place making him unclean; it is clear that he is not clean.
Ecclesiastes 2:14
The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the foolish man goes walking in the dark; but still I saw that the same event comes to them all.
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Ezekiel 1:4
And, looking, I saw a storm-wind coming out of the north, a great cloud with flames of fire coming after one another, and a bright light shining round about it and in the heart of it was something coloured like electrum.
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