Jos 19:38, 21:16, 1Sa 6:9-19, 1Ki 4:9, 2Ki 14:11-13 | ESV | STEP | Yiron , Migdal-el , Horem , Beth-anath , and Beth-shemesh

9 and watch. If it goes up on the way to its own land, to ^aBeth-shemesh, then it is he who has done us this great harm, but if not, then we shall know that it is not ^bhis hand that struck us; it happened to us by coincidence.”

10 The men did so, and took two milk cows and yoked them to the cart and shut up their calves at home. 11 And they put the ark of the Lord on the cart and the box with the golden mice and the images of their tumors. 12 And the cows went straight in the direction of ^cBeth-shemesh along ^done highway, lowing as they went. They turned neither to the right nor to the left, and the lords of the Philistines went after them as far as the border of ^eBeth-shemesh. 13 Now the people of ^fBeth-shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley. And when they lifted up their eyes and saw the ark, they rejoiced to see it. 14 The cart came into the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh and stopped there. ^gA great stone was there. And they split up the wood of the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the Lord. 15 And the Levites took down the ark of the Lord and the box that was beside it, in which were the golden figures, and set them upon ^hthe great stone. And the men of ⁱBeth-shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices on that day to the Lord. 16 And when ^jthe five lords of the Philistines saw it, they returned that day to Ekron.

17 These are the golden tumors that the Philistines returned as a ^kguilt offering to the Lord: one for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ashkelon, one for Gath, one for Ekron, 18 and the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, ^lboth fortified cities and unwalled villages. ^mThe great stone beside which they set down the ark of the Lord is a witness to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh.

19 ⁿAnd he struck some of the men of Beth-shemesh, because they looked upon the ark of the Lord. He struck seventy men of them, ^{▼▼Most Hebrew manuscripts struck of the people seventy men, fifty thousand men} and the people mourned because the Lord had struck the people with a great blow.

1 Kings 4:9

9 Ben-deker, in Makaz, Shaalbim, Beth-shemesh, and Elonbeth-hanan;

2 Kings 14:11-13

11 But Amaziah would not listen. So Jehoash king of Israel went up, and he and Amaziah king of Judah ^pfaced one another in battle at ^qBeth-shemesh, which belongs to Judah. 12 And Judah was defeated by Israel, ^rand every man fled to his home. 13 And Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash, son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem for four hundred cubits, ^{▼▼A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters} from ^tthe Ephraim Gate to ^uthe Corner Gate.