About the Author of the Blogsite, Not the Author of the Bible::

About the Author of the Blogsite, Not the Author of the Bible: I was uncertain of how to accomplish this, mindful of Revelation 22:18-19, which says that nobody is to add to, or to take away from what was written in the Bible. After lots of prayerful contemplation, the Lord had it on my heart that I’m not to change the meaning of what is written in the Bible. He has also shown ways to add to people’s understating of that meaning, without altering the meaning, by putting that info within [brackets]. This is primarily accomplished with the KJV Bible and lots of prayers, but at times, BibleGateway.com, Biblehub.com, NIV Bible, Webster Dictionary, and other internet resources, as needed. Debra Seiling

About Understanding the Bible:

Understanding the Bible: After reading Isaiah 28:10 many times over the years and not totally understanding it, it recently became apparent to me that the Lord God has this passage as the means for understanding the Bible. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little. Isaiah 28:10 KJV. Being prayerful about this passage, and looking up 'precept' in the Webster's Dictionary, it gave this passage a whole new meaning, once 'commandment' is substituted for 'precept'. Within brackets are additional words the Lord had on my heart to aid in understanding the meaning. For commandment must be [built up] upon commandment; commandment upon commandment; line upon line, line upon line; [developing understanding] here a little, and there a little.

The Table Format:

The Table Format: I was overwhelmed with how to explain the process for determining if someone had leprosy in Leviticus 13, which seemed very complicated. After praying, "Lord, if this is difficult for me to understand after reading it many times, how can this be explained to others?" The thought the Lord God had on my heart was for me to put it into a vertical chart to visually see the process. This made it much easier for me to follow the progression. After doing so, I prayed, "Lord, how can this be conveyed to readers, so that they can understand this process?" The thought the Lord God had on my heart was to put it within the lines of a table. Being a stiff-necked, stubborn person, as it's often called in the Bible, I prayed, asking the Lord God if He's sure that's really what He wanted me to do? I reluctantly put Leviticus 13 into a table format. When I read this difficult leprosy process within a table format, it suddenly became easier for me to understand. That's because it builds line upon line, as explained in the Understanding the Bible section. Shortly after that, the Lord God had it on my heart, to put all of The Books of the Bible in Smaller Chunks within a table format, to aid in understanding, line upon line.

7/15/2023

1 Samuel 6:1-21 Returning the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord God

 

Returning the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord God

  1 Samuel 6:1-21                The Book of 1 Samuel [in Smaller Chunks]

The Ark of the Lord was in the country of the Philistines 7 months & they called for the priests & the diviners, saying, What shall we do [with] the Ark of the Lord? Tell us [what] we shall [do to] send it [back] to [its] place? 

[1 Samuel 5:6-7 But the hand of the Lord was heavy upon [those] of Ashdod & He destroyed them & [struck] them with [tumors,] even Ashdod & [its coastal territory.] And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The Ark of the God of Israel shall not [stay] with us. For His hand is [heavy] upon us & upon Dagon, our god.]

They said, If you send away the Ark of the God of Israel, [don’t] send it empty, but return [to] Him a [sin] offering. Then, you shall be healed & it shall be known to you why [God’s] hand isn’t removed from you. 

They said, What shall our [sin] offering be, [that] we shall return to Him? They answered, 5 golden [tumors] & 5 golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines, for 1 plague of [tumors] was on all [of] you & your lords. 

[For this reason,] you shall make [golden] images of your [tumors] & mice that [harm] the land & shall give glory to the God of Israel, [so perhaps,] He [might] lighten His hand from off [of] you & from off your gods & your land. 

[Why] then do you harden your [stubborn] hearts, [like] the Egyptians & Pharaoh hardened their hearts? [Even] when [the Lord God] had [done wonderful miracles] among [the Egyptians] & didn’t they [still] let [the Israelites] go & they departed? 

Therefore, now make a new cart & take 2 [milk cows that have never been yoked] & tie the [cows] to the cart & [take] their calves home from them. [Put] the Ark of the Lord on the cart & [beside it a chest] with the gold [objects] you [send] to Him as a [sin] offering & send it away, [so] it may go.

See if it goes up by the [road of God’s] Own coast to Beth Shemesh, then [you will know] if [the Lord God] has this great evil [to] us. But if [the cows don’t go that way,] we’ll know it [wasn’t God’s] hand that [struck us with tumors] & it happened to us [by] chance. 

The men did so & tied the 2 [milk cows] to the cart  & shut up their calves at home. And they [put] the Ark of the Lord on the cart & the [chest] with the images of their mice & [tumors] of gold on the cart. 

The [cows] took the cart straight to the [road] of Beth Shemesh & went along the highway [mooing] as they went & [didn’t turn] aside to the right hand or to the left. The Philistine lords [followed] after them to the border of Beth Shemesh.

[Those of] Beth Shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley & they lifted up their eyes & saw the Ark & rejoiced to see it. The cart came into the field of Joshua, a Beth Shemite, & stood there [where] there was a [large rock.] 

They [cut] the wood [from] the cart & offered the [cows as] a burnt offering to the Lord. The Levites took down the Ark of the Lord & the [chest] that was with it [that had the gold images] were & [they] put them on the [large rock.]

And the men of Beth Shemesh offered burnt offerings & sacrifices to the Lord the same day. When the 5 Philistine lords [saw this,] they returned to Ekron the same day. 

These are the golden [tumors] the Philistines returned as a [sin] offering to the Lord: 1 for Ashdod, 1 for. Gaza, 1 for Askelon [a.k.a. Ashkelon,] 1 for Gath & 1 for Ekron.

The golden mice were according to the number of the Philistine cities, both fenced & country villages that [belonged] to the 5 lords, even [as far as] the large rock] of Abel, [where] they [put] down the Ark of the Lord. 

The [large rock] remains to this day in the field of Joshua, the Beth Shemite. [The Lord God killed] the men of Beth Shemesh [who] looked into the Ark of the Lord & [killed] 50,070 men. 

The people [of Beth Shemesh mourned,] because the Lord had [killed] many of the people with a [large] slaughter. The men of Beth Shemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy Lord God? To whom shall [the Lord God] go up from us?

They sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjath Jearim, saying, The Philistines have [returned] the Ark of the Lord. Come down & take it up to you.