1 Samuel 6:20

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1 Samuel 6:18–21 · Berean Standard Bible

18 The number of gold rats also corresponded to the number of Philistine cities belonging to the five rulers—the fortified cities and their outlying villages. And the large rock on which they placed the ark of the LORD stands to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh.

19 But God struck down some of the people of Beth-shemesh because they looked inside the ark of the LORD. He struck down seventy men, and the people mourned because the LORD had struck them with a great slaughter.

20 The men of Beth-shemesh asked, “Who can stand in the presence of the LORD, this holy God? To whom should the ark go up from here?”

21 So they sent messengers to the people of Kiriath-jearim, saying, “The Philistines have returned the ark of the LORD. Come down and take it up with you.”

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1 Samuel 5:8

So they called together all the rulers of the Philistines and asked, “What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?” “It must be moved to Gath,” they replied. So they carried away the ark of the God of Israel.

1 Samuel 5:9

But after they had moved the ark to Gath, the LORD’s hand was also against that city, throwing it into great confusion and afflicting the men of the city, both young and old, with an outbreak of tumors.

1 Samuel 5:10

So 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!”

1 Samuel 5:11

Then the Ekronites assembled all the rulers of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel. It must return to its place, so that it will not kill us and our people!” For a deadly confusion had pervaded the city; the hand of God was heavy upon it.

1 Samuel 5:12

Those who did not die were afflicted with tumors, and the outcry of the city went up to heaven.

Numbers 17:12

Then the Israelites declared to Moses, “Look, we are perishing! We are lost; we are all lost!

Numbers 17:13

Anyone who comes near the tabernacle of the LORD will die. Are we all going to perish?”

2 Samuel 6:7

And the anger of the LORD burned against Uzzah, and God struck him down on the spot for his irreverence, and he died there beside the ark of God.

2 Samuel 6:9

That day David feared the LORD and asked, “How can the ark of the LORD ever come to me?”

1 Chronicles 13:11

Then David became angry because the LORD had burst forth against Uzzah; so he named that place Perez-uzzah, as it is called to this day.

1 Chronicles 13:12

That day David feared God and asked, “How can I ever bring the ark of God to me?”

1 Chronicles 13:13

So he did not move the ark with him to the City of David; instead, he took it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

Psalms 76:7

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Malachi 3:2

But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He will be like a refiner’s fire, like a launderer’s soap.

Luke 5:8

When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees. “Go away from me, Lord,” he said, “for I am a sinful man.”

Luke 8:37

Then all the people of the region of the Gerasenes asked Jesus to depart from them, because great fear had taken hold of them. So He got into the boat and started back.