Berean Standard Bible
1 Samuel 6:7
7Now, therefore, prepare one new cart with two milk cows that have never been yoked. Hitch the cows to the cart, but take their calves away and pen them up.
1 Samuel 6:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them:
- New International Version (NIV)“Now then, get a new cart ready, with two cows that have calved and have never been yoked. Hitch the cows to the cart, but take their calves away and pen them up.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Now then, take and prepare a new cart and two milk cows on which there has never come a yoke, and yoke the cows to the cart, but take their calves home, away from them.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Now therefore, make a new cart, take two milk cows which have never been yoked, and hitch the cows to the cart; and take their calves home, away from them.
Context of 1 Samuel 6:7
5Make images of your tumors and of the rats that are ravaging the land. Give glory to the God of Israel, and perhaps He will lift His hand from you and your gods and your land. 6Why harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened theirs? When He afflicted them, did they not send the people out so they could go on their way? Now, therefore, prepare one new cart with two milk cows that have never been yoked. Hitch the cows to the cart, but take their calves away and pen them up. 8Take the ark of the LORD, set it on the cart, and in a chest beside it put the gold objects you are sending back to Him as a guilt offering. Then send the ark on its way, 9but keep watching it. If it goes up the road to its homeland, toward Beth-shemesh, it is the LORD who has brought on us this great disaster. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not His hand that punished us and that it happened by chance.”
Read all of 1 Samuel 61 Samuel 6:7 word by word
וְעַתָּ֗ה קְח֨וּ וַעֲשׂ֜וּ עֲגָלָ֤ה חֲדָשָׁה֙ אֶחָ֔ת וּשְׁתֵּ֤י פָרוֹת֙ עָל֔וֹת אֲשֶׁ֛ר לֹא־עָלָ֥ה עֲלֵיהֶ֖ם עֹ֑ל וַאֲסַרְתֶּ֤ם אֶת־הַפָּרוֹת֙ בָּעֲגָלָ֔ה וַהֲשֵׁיבֹתֶ֧ם בְּנֵיהֶ֛ם מֵאַחֲרֵיהֶ֖ם הַבָּֽיְתָה׃Read the interlinear
- Now, thereforeעַתָּ֫ה‛attâh · nowH6258
- Now, thereforeלָקַחlâqach · to take: takeH3947
- prepareעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to makeH6213
- oneאֶחָד'echâd · oneH259
- newחָדָשׁchâdâsh · newH2319
- cartעֲגָלָה‛ăgâlâh · cartH5699
- with twoשְׁנַ֫יִםshenayim shettayim · twoH8147
- milkעוּל‛ûl · to nurseH5763
- cowsפָּרָהpârâh · heiferH6510
- thatאֲשֶׁר'ăsher · whichH834
- have neverלֹאlô' lô' lôh · notH3808
- been yokedעָלָה‛âlâh · to ascend: riseH5927
- been yokedעַל‛al · uponH5921
- been yokedעֹל‛ôl ‛ôl · yokeH5923
- Hitchאָסַר'âsar · to bindH631
- ·אֵת'êth · [Obj.]H853
- but take their calvesבֵּןbên · son: young animalH1121
- but take their calvesאַחַר'achar · afterH310
- awayשׁוּבshûb · to return: returnH7725
- and pen them upבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: homeH1004
Cross-references for 1 Samuel 6:7
- 2 Samuel 6:3They set the ark of God on a new cart and brought it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were guiding the new cart,
- 1 Chronicles 13:7So they carried the ark of God from the house of Abinadab on a new cart, with Uzzah and Ahio guiding the cart.
- Numbers 19:2“This is the statute of the law that the LORD has commanded: Instruct the Israelites to bring you an unblemished red heifer that has no defect and has never been placed under a yoke.
Commentaries on 1 Samuel 6:7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7Make a new cart - It was indecent and improper to employ in any part of the worship of God any thing that had before served for a common purpose. Every thing in the worship of God is said to be sanctified: now the general meaning of that word is, to separate a thing from all earthly and common uses, and devote it solely to the service of God. When David removed the ark from the house of Abinadab, he put it on a new cart, 2 Samuel 6:3. Bring their calves…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7A new cart kine on which there hath come no yoke - This was so ordered in reverence to the ark, and was a right and true feeling. See Mark 11:2; Matthew 27:60. For the supposed special virtue of new things, see Judges 16:7, Judges 16:11.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7take their calves away: If the cows ignored their motherly instincts and left their calves to take the Ark to Israel, it would show that the plague came from Israel's God (1 Samuel 6:9).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. make a new cart--Their object in making a new one for the purpose seems to have been not only for cleanliness and neatness, but from an impression that there would have been an impropriety in using one that had been applied to meaner or more common services. It appears to have been a covered wagon (see on 2Sa 6:3). two milch kine--Such untrained heifers, wanton and vagrant, would pursue no certain and regular path, like those accustomed to the yoke…Read the comment
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Commentaries on 1 Samuel 6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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