1 Samuel 6:15

6:15 The Levites took down the ark of the Lord and the chest that was with it, which contained the gold objects. They placed them near the big stone. At that time the people of Beth Shemesh offered burnt offerings and made sacrifices to the Lord.

1 Samuel 6:19

6:19 But the Lord 1  struck down some of the people of Beth Shemesh because they had looked into the ark of the Lord; he struck down 50,070 2  of the men. The people grieved because the Lord had struck the people with a hard blow.

1 Samuel 13:5

13:5 For the battle with Israel the Philistines had amassed 3,000 3  chariots, 6,000 horsemen, and an army as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Micmash, east of Beth Aven.

1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

2 tc The number 50,070 is surprisingly large, although it finds almost unanimous textual support in the MT and in the ancient versions. Only a few medieval Hebrew mss lack “50,000,” reading simply “70” instead. However, there does not seem to be sufficient external evidence to warrant reading 70 rather than 50,070, although that is done by a number of recent translations (e.g., NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT). The present translation (reluctantly) follows the MT and the ancient versions here.

3 tn Many English versions (e.g., KJV, NASB, NRSV, TEV) read “30,000” here.