1 Samuel 6:13

13 Ora, andavam os de Bete-Semes fazendo a sega do trigo no vale; e, levantando os olhos, viram a arca e, vendo-a, se alegraram.

1 Samuel 6:13 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 6:13

And they of Bethshemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in
the valley
Which began at Pentecost, in the month Sivan, about our May; so that there were many people in the fields, who were eyewitnesses of this wonderful event:

and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it;
for though the ark while in the tabernacle was only seen by the high priest, when he went into the holy of holies; yet this having been brought out from thence, and exposed in the camp of Israel, some of this place very probably were there at that time, and had seen it, and knew it again by its form and splendour; and which gave them great pleasure to behold, which had been taken, and had been so long in the hand of the enemy, and the people of Israel deprived of it; which was the symbol of the divine Presence among them, and now restored to them again; and in this wonderful way, without seeking for it, without going to war on account of it, without paying a ransom for it; and was brought to them in a cart drawn by cattle without a driver, the lords of the Philistines with a large retinue following it. This is to be understood not of their looking "into" it, as they afterwards did, and were punished, as Kimchi; but of their looking "on" it.

1 Samuel 6:13 In-Context

11 também puseram a arca do Senhor sobre o carro, bem como e cofre com os ratos de ouro e com as imagens dos seus tumores.

12 Então as vacas foram caminhando diretamente pelo caminho de Bete-Semes, seguindo a estrada, andando e berrando, sem se desviarem nem para a direita nem para a esquerda; e os chefes dos filisteus foram seguindo-as até o termo de Bete-Semes.

13 Ora, andavam os de Bete-Semes fazendo a sega do trigo no vale; e, levantando os olhos, viram a arca e, vendo-a, se alegraram.

14 Tendo chegado o carro ao campo de Josué, o bete-semita, parou ali, onde havia uma grande pedra. Fenderam a madeira do carro, e ofereceram as vacas ao Senhor em holocausto.

15 Nisso os levitas desceram a arca do Senhor, como também o cofre que estava junto a ela, em que se achavam as jóias de ouro, e puseram-nos sobre aquela grande pedra; e no mesmo dia os homens de Bete-Semes ofereceram holocaustos e sacrifícios ao Senhor.