1 Samuel 6:3

Overview - 1 Samuel 6
After seven months the Philistines take counsel how to send back the ark.
10 They bring it on a new cart with an offering unto Beth-shemesh.
19 The people are smitten for looking into the ark.
21 They send to them of Kirjath-jearim to fetch it.
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1 Samuel 6:3  (King James Version)
And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass offering: then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you.
 


empty
Exodus 23:15 ; 34:20 Deuteronomy 16:16

a trespass
Leviticus 5:6 Leviticus 5:15-19 ; 6:6 7:1-7

known
9 ; 1 Samuel 5:7 1 Samuel 5:9 1 Samuel 5:11 Job 10:2 ; Job 34:31 Job 34:32