1 Samuel 6:13
6:13 Now the residents of Beth Shemesh were harvesting wheat in the valley. When they looked up and saw the ark, they were pleased at the sight.
1 Samuel 6:20
6:20 The residents of Beth Shemesh asked, “Who is able to stand before the Lord, this holy God? To whom will the ark 1 go up from here?”
1 Samuel 7:11
7:11 Then the men of Israel left Mizpah and chased the Philistines, striking them down all the way to an area below Beth Car.
1 Samuel 31:10
31:10 They placed Saul’s armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths 2 and hung his corpse on the city wall of Beth Shan.
1 tn Heb “he” or “it”; the referent here (the ark) has been specified in the translation for clarity (cf. also NIV, CEV, NLT). Others, however, take the referent to be the Lord himself.
2 sn The Semitic goddess Astarte was associated with love and war in the ancient Near East. See the note on the same term in 7:3.