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The Ark Returned to Israel

1 Samuel 6:1

In 11 translations

BSB
When the ark of the LORD had been in the land of the Philistines seven months,
KJV
And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines seven months.
WEB
Yahweh’s ark was in the country of the Philistines seven months.
ASV
And the ark of Jehovah was in the country of the Philistines seven months.
LSV
And the Ark of YHWH is in the field of the Philistines [for] seven months,
YLT
And the ark of Jehovah is in the field of the Philistines seven months,
DBY
And the ark of Jehovah was in the country of the Philistines seven months.
DRC
Now the ark of God was in the land of the Philistines seven months.
GNV
So the Arke of the Lord was in the countrey of the Philistims seuen moneths.
JPS
And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines seven months.
LXXE
And the ark was seven months in the country of the Philistines, and their land brought forth swarms of mice.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וַיְהִ֧י אֲרוֹן־יְהוָ֛ה בִּשְׂדֵ֥ה פְלִשְׁתִּ֖ים שִׁבְעָ֥ה חֳדָשִֽׁים׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ ἦν ἡ κιβωτὸς ἐν ἀγρῷ τῶν ἀλλοφύλων ἑπτὰ μῆνας, καὶ ἐξέζεσεν ἡ γῆ αὐτῶν μύας.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 78:61He delivered His strength to captivity, and His splendor to the hand of the adversary.
  • 1 Samuel 5:3When the people of Ashdod got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of the LORD. So they took Dagon and returned him to his place.
  • 1 Samuel 5:10–11So they sent the ark of God to Ekron, but as it arrived, the Ekronites cried out, “They have brought us the ark of the God of Israel in order to kill us and our people!” Then the Ekronites assembled all the rulers of…
  • 1 Samuel 5:1After the Philistines had captured the ark of God, they took it from Ebenezer to Ashdod,

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