King James Version
1 Samuel 6:11 in the King James Version says “And they laid the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.” — study this verse from 1 Samuel chapter 6 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And they laid the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.”
1 Samuel 6:11 · KJV
And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us: it was a chance that happened to us. he: or, it
And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:
And they laid the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.
And the kine took the straight way to the way of Bethshemesh, and went along the highway , lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Bethshemesh.
And they of Bethshemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“And they laid”
H7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“of the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“of gold”
H2091gold, figuratively, something gold-colored (i.e., yellow), as oil, a clear sky
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“and the images”
H6754a phantom, i.e., (figuratively) illusion, resemblance; hence, a representative figure, especially an idol
“of their emerods”
H2914a boil or ulcer (from the inflammation), especially a tumor in the anus or pudenda (the piles)
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