Joshua 21:16
16Ain with its pasturelands, Juttah with its pasturelands, Beth-shemesh with its pasturelands—nine cities out of these two tribes;1 Samuel 6:9
9and 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.”1 Samuel 6:19-20
19 cAnd 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. 20Then the men of Beth-shemesh said, e“Who is able to stand before the Lord, this holy God? And to whom shall he go up away from us?”
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