1 Samuel 6:4

4 Os filisteus perguntaram: “Que oferta pela culpa devemos enviar-lhe?”Eles responderam: “Cinco tumores de ouro e cinco ratos de ouro, de acordo com o número de governantes filisteus, porquanto a mesma praga atingiu vocês e todos os seus governantes.

1 Samuel 6:4 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 6:4

Then said they, what shall be the trespass offering which we
shall return to him?
&c.] They paid a great deference to their priests and diviners, and were willing to be directed in all things by them; being ignorant of what was most proper in this case, and might be acceptable to the God of Israel:

they answered, five golden emerods, and five golden mice;
images of these made of gold, as appears from the next verse; the reason of the former is easy, from the above account of the disease they were afflicted with; but of the latter no hint is given before: indeed in the Vulgate Latin and Septuagint versions of ( 1 Samuel 5:6 ) is inserted a clause, that

``mice sprung up in the midst of their country;''

which is not in the Hebrew text, nor in the Chaldee paraphrase; yet appears to be a fact from the following verse, that at the same time their bodies were smitten with emerods, their fields were overrun with mice, which destroyed the increase of them; wherefore five golden mice were also ordered as a part of the trespass offering, and five of each were pitched upon:

according to the number of the lords of the Philistines;
who were five, and so the principalities under them; see ( Joshua 13:3 )

for one plague was on you all, and on your lords;
the lords and common people were equally smitten with the emerods, and the several principalities were alike distressed and destroyed with the mice; and therefore the trespass offering, which was a vicarious one for them, was to be according to the number of their princes and their principalities; five emerods for the five princes and their people smitten with emerods, and five mice on account of the five cities and fields adjacent being marred by mice.

1 Samuel 6:4 In-Context

2 os filisteus chamaram os sacerdotes e adivinhos e disseram: “O que faremos com a arca do SENHOR? Digam-nos com o que devemos mandá-la de volta a seu lugar”.
3 Eles responderam: “Se vocês devolverem a arca do deus de Israel, não mandem de volta só a arca, mas enviem também uma oferta pela culpa. Então vocês serão curados e saberão por que a sua mão não tem se afastado de vocês”.
4 Os filisteus perguntaram: “Que oferta pela culpa devemos enviar-lhe?”Eles responderam: “Cinco tumores de ouro e cinco ratos de ouro, de acordo com o número de governantes filisteus, porquanto a mesma praga atingiu vocês e todos os seus governantes.
5 Façam imagens dos tumores e dos ratos que estão assolando o país e deem glória ao deus de Israel. Talvez ele alivie a mão de sobre vocês, seus deuses e sua terra.
6 Por que ter o coração obstinado como os egípcios e o faraó? Só quando esse deus os tratou severamente, eles deixaram os israelitas seguirem o seu caminho.
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