1 Samuel 6:13

13 Ahora bien, los habitantes de Bet-semes estaban cosechando trigo en el valle y, cuando vieron el arca, ¡se llenaron de alegría!

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 Luego pusieron el arca del Señor
en la carreta junto con el cofre que contenía los tumores y las ratas de oro.

12 Y efectivamente, las vacas, sin desviarse a ningún lado, siguieron directo por el camino hacia Bet-semes, mugiendo por todo el camino. Los gobernantes filisteos las siguieron hasta los límites de Bet-semes.

13 Ahora bien, los habitantes de Bet-semes estaban cosechando trigo en el valle y, cuando vieron el arca, ¡se llenaron de alegría!

14 La carreta entró en el campo de un hombre llamado Josué y se detuvo junto a una roca grande. Entonces la gente hizo pedazos la madera de la carreta para leña, mató a las dos vacas y las sacrificó al Señor
como ofrenda quemada.

15 Varios hombres de la tribu de Leví levantaron de la carreta el arca del Señor
y el cofre —que contenía las ratas y los tumores de oro— y los pusieron sobre la roca grande. En ese día el pueblo de Bet-semes ofreció muchos sacrificios y ofrendas quemadas al Señor
.