1 Samuel 6:19

he smote: Exodus 19:21, Leviticus 10:1-:, Numbers 4:4, Numbers 4:5, Numbers 4:15, Numbers 4:20, Deuteronomy 29:29, 2 Samuel 6:7, 1 Chronicles 13:9, 1 Chronicles 13:10, Colossians 2:18, 1 Peter 4:17

fifty thousand: As it is very improbable that the village of Beth-shemesh should contain, or be capable of employing, 50,070 men in the fields at wheat harvest, much less that they could all peep into the ark, and from the uncommon manner in which it is expressed in the original, it is generally allowed that there is some corruption in the text, or that some explanatory word is omitted. The Hebrew is shivim ish, chamishim aileph ish, literally, "seventy men, fifty thousand men." So LXX וגהןלחךןםפב בםהסבע ךבי נוםפחךןםפב קיכיבהבע בםהסשם. Vulgate, septuaginta viros, et quinquaginta millia plebis. "70 (chief) men, and 50,000 common people." Targum, besabey amma, "of the elders of the people 70 men, ovekahala, and in the congregation 50,000 men." But the Syriac, chamsho alphin weshivin gavrin, "5,000 and 70 men;" with which the Arabic agrees; while Josephus has only וגהןלחךןםפב, seventy men; and three reputable manuscripts of Dr. Kennicott's also omit "50,000 men." Some learned men, however, would render, by supplying מ, mem, "70 men; fifty out of a thousand;" which supposes about 1,400 present, and that a twentieth part were slain.

Reciprocal: Exodus 30:20 - die not Leviticus 10:2 - they died Numbers 1:51 - the stranger Numbers 1:53 - there be Numbers 3:10 - and the stranger Numbers 4:18 - General Numbers 8:19 - that there Numbers 17:13 - any thing Numbers 18:4 - a stranger 2 Samuel 24:15 - the Lord 1 Chronicles 21:14 - seventy 2 Chronicles 25:21 - Bethshemesh Psalms 9:16 - known Luke 19:21 - because Acts 5:5 - great