1 Samuel 6:19
He struck of the men of Beth Shemesh, because they had looked into Yahweh’s ark, he struck fifty thousand seventy of the men. Then the people mourned, because Yahweh had struck the people with a great slaughter.This verse in the real world
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- בֵּית שֶׁמֶשׁBêyth ShemeshBeth-Shemesh, a place in Palestine
- אָבַלʼâbalto bewail
- מַכָּהmakkâha wound; figuratively, carnage, also pestilence
- שִׁבְעִיםshibʻîymseventy
- חֲמִשִּׁיםchămishshîymfifty
- אָרוֹןʼârôwna box
- אֶלֶףʼelephhence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a
- נָכָהnâkâhto strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively)
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The Hebrew and Greek words standing behind this verse. Word-by-word alignment comes with the interlinear.