1 Samuel 6:7 Meaning and Explanation
“Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them:”
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Read Full Chapter →They are told to build a new cart and yoke two nursing cows that have never been worked, separating them from their calves.
What Does 1 Samuel 6:7 Mean?
The priests devise a test designed to remove all doubt. A new cart, never used for common work, is to carry the ark, drawn by two milk cows that have never borne a yoke and whose calves are taken from them. Every instinct of these animals, untrained and longing for their young, should pull them back home, not away.
By stacking the odds against any natural outcome, the Philistines set the stage to see whether a higher hand is at work. The detail of the new cart shows a flicker of reverence: what carries the holy should not be ordinary. God often proves Himself precisely where nature alone would fail, so that when the unlikely happens, no one can credit it to chance or coincidence.
1 Samuel 6:7 in the Original Language
chadashah (חֲדָשָׁה), 'new' -- fresh, never before used; what bears the holy is set apart from common service.
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What does 1 Samuel 6:7 mean?
They are told to build a new cart and yoke two nursing cows that have never been worked, separating them from their calves.