Graphic Bible · Scene 9 of 10
1 Samuel 6:19-20
Mourning at Beth-shemesh
The Ark Returns · 1 Samuel 6
Story guide: The men of Beth-shemesh mourn after many are struck down for looking into the ark; faces and setting are not described in the text.
Open this scene in the reader →19And he struck down some of the men of Beth-shemesh because they had looked into the ark of Yahweh. He struck down seventy men among the people, fifty thousand men, and the people mourned because Yahweh had struck the people with a great blow.
20Then the men of Beth-shemesh said, “Who is able to stand before Yahweh, this holy God? And to whom shall he go up from us?”
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